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; Part of the Gatehouse from Inside the Abbey Walls c.1806-10

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Battle Abbey; Part of the Gatehouse from Inside the Abbey Walls’ c.1806-10
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 50 Recto:
Battle Abbey; Part of the Gatehouse from Inside the Abbey Walls circa 1806–10
D05667
Turner Bequest XCI 50
Pencil on cream wove paper, prepared with a buff wash, 201 x 128 mm
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘50’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘XCI 50’ bottom right
Blind-stamped with the Turner Bequest monogram, bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The identification of Battle Abbey was correctly given by Edward Croft-Murray in pencil annotations to a copy of Finberg now in Tate’s Library. Turner has drawn a corner of the gatehouse from inside the abbey walls. For another view of the gatehouse see folio 49 of the sketchbook (D05666). For Battle Abbey in this sketchbook see notes to folio 45 (D05662).
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David Blayney Brown
March 2011

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Battle Abbey; Part of 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-part-of-the-gatehouse-from-inside-the-abbey-r1130978, accessed 24 April 2024.