J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > East Sussex c.1806-20 > Herstmonceux and Pevensey Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Battle Abbey Gatehouse Seen through Trees c.1806-10

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Battle Abbey Gatehouse Seen through Trees’ c.1806-10
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 48 Recto:
Battle Abbey Gatehouse Seen through Trees circa 1806–10
D05665
Turner Bequest XCI 48
Pencil and white chalk on cream wove paper, prepared with a buff wash, 128 x 201 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘48’ bottom left, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘XCI 48’ bottom left, descending vertically
Blind-stamped with the Turner Bequest monogram, bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Rather than Herstmonceux Castle, as stated by Finberg, this must be a further view of Battle Abbey of which a group of drawings probably begins on folio 45 of the sketchbook (D05662). In pencil annotations to a copy of Finberg now in Tate’s Library, Edward Croft-Murray suggested that the present drawing includes ‘Battle Abbey Gatehouse’.
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David Blayney Brown
March 2011

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Battle Abbey Gatehouse Seen through Trees c.1806–10 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, March 2011, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2012, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-battle-abbey-gatehouse-seen-through-trees-r1130976, accessed 26 April 2024.