Joseph Mallord William Turner

Study of Part of the Gateway of Battle Abbey, after Michael Angelo Rooker

1792

Image released under Creative Commons CC-BY-NC-ND (3.0 Unported)

License this image

In Tate Britain

Prints and Drawings Room

View by appointment
Artist
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of
Literary and Other Subjects and Copies
Medium
Graphite and watercolour on paper
Dimensions
Support: 172 x 151 mm
Collection
Tate
Acquisition
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference
D00193
Turner Bequest XVII R

Catalogue entry

This study in the rendering of masonry is copied from Battle Abbey-gate, Sussex, by Michael ‘Angelo’ Rooker (1746–1801), shown at the Royal Academy in 1792 (438), and now in the Academy’s London collection. See also Tate D00192 (Turner Bequest XVII Q).
The inscription may refer to Aaron Arrowsmith (1750–1823), ‘geographer’, proprietor of a shop first in Rathbone Place, then from 1790 in Long Acre, Covent Garden. See Tate D00153 (Turner Bequest XIII H). There are colour tints in the margin round the drawn area.
Verso:
Blank; stamped in brown ink with Turner Bequest monogram.

Andrew Wilton
April 2012

Read full Catalogue entry

Explore

You might like

Left Right
Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Battle Abbey’ c.1794

Joseph Mallord William Turner Battle Abbey

c.1794
Thomas Girtin, ‘The Gatehouse of Battle Abbey, Sussex’ ?1794

Thomas Girtin The Gatehouse of Battle Abbey, Sussex

?1794
View by appointment
Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Study of Foliage and a Turret at Battle Abbey, after Michael Angelo Rooker’ 1792

Joseph Mallord William Turner Study of Foliage and a Turret at Battle Abbey, after Michael Angelo Rooker

1792
View by appointment
Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Battle Abbey’ c.1806–10

Joseph Mallord William Turner Battle Abbey

c.1806–10
View by appointment
Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Battle Abbey; Part of the Gatehouse from Inside the Abbey Walls’ c.1806–10

Joseph Mallord William Turner Battle Abbey; Part of the Gatehouse from Inside the Abbey Walls

c.1806–10
View by appointment
Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Battle Abbey; the South Block’ c.1806–10

Joseph Mallord William Turner Battle Abbey; the South Block

c.1806–10
View by appointment
Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Distant View of Battle Abbey from the West’ c.1806–10

Joseph Mallord William Turner Distant View of Battle Abbey from the West

c.1806–10
View by appointment
Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Battle Abbey; the Dormitory’ c.1806–10

Joseph Mallord William Turner Battle Abbey; the Dormitory

c.1806–10
View by appointment
Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘?Battle Abbey from the West’ c.1806–10

Joseph Mallord William Turner ?Battle Abbey from the West

c.1806–10
View by appointment
Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Distant View of Battle Abbey from the West’ c.1806–10

Joseph Mallord William Turner Distant View of Battle Abbey from the West

c.1806–10
View by appointment
Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Battle Abbey Seen through Trees’ c.1806–10

Joseph Mallord William Turner Battle Abbey Seen through Trees

c.1806–10
View by appointment
Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Battle Abbey’ 1810

Joseph Mallord William Turner Battle Abbey

1810
View by appointment
Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Battle Abbey; the Gatehouse from Inside the Abbey Walls’ c.1806–10

Joseph Mallord William Turner Battle Abbey; the Gatehouse from Inside the Abbey Walls

c.1806–10
View by appointment
Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Wall near Battle Abbey’ c.1810–16

Joseph Mallord William Turner A Wall near Battle Abbey

c.1810–16
View by appointment
Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Tewkesbury Abbey, Church and Gateway’ c.1792–3

Joseph Mallord William Turner Tewkesbury Abbey, Church and Gateway

c.1792–3

In the shop

Browse the shop