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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
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; the Gatehouse from Inside the Abbey Walls c.1806-10

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Battle Abbey; the Gatehouse from Inside the Abbey Walls’ c.1806-10
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 49 Recto:
Battle Abbey; the Gatehouse from Inside the Abbey Walls circa 1806–10
D05666
Turner Bequest XCI 49
Pencil and white chalk on cream wove paper, prepared with a buff wash, 128 x 201 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘49’ bottom left, descending vertically
Stamped in black ‘XCI 49’ bottom left, descending vertically
Blind-stamped with the Turner Bequest monogram, bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This subject was correctly identified as Battle Abbey gatehouse by Edward Croft-Murray in pencil annotations to a copy of Finberg now in Tate’s Library. The gatehouse is seen from just inside the walls of the abbey. Another view of it is on folio 50 of the sketchbook (D05667). For Battle Abbey in this book see notes to folio 45 (D05662).
There are splashes of ink or grey wash on this leaf.
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David Blayney Brown
March 2011

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Battle Abbey; the Gatehouse from Inside the Abbey Walls 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-the-gatehouse-from-inside-the-abbey-walls-r1130977, accessed 20 April 2024.