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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Battle Abbey; the Gatehouse and the Pilgrim's Rest c.1816-18

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Battle Abbey; the Gatehouse and the Pilgrim's Rest’ c.1816-18
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 29 Verso:
Battle Abbey; the Gatehouse and the Pilgrim’s Rest circa 1816–18
D10384
Turner Bequest CXXXIX 29a
Pencil on white wove paper, 129 x 205 mm
Inscribed by an unknown hand in pencil ‘29a’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Drawn with the sketchbook inverted and continued slightly on folio 30 (D10385). This view is taken from the left of the gatehouse with the structure seen at an angle. There is a frontal view of the gatehouse on folio 28 (D10381).
For Battle Abbey in this sketchbook see notes to folio 28 (D10381).

David Blayney Brown
May 2011

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Battle Abbey; the Gatehouse and the Pilgrim’s Rest c.1816–18 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 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-and-the-pilgrims-rest-r1131612, accessed 25 April 2024.