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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Study of Part of the Gateway of Battle Abbey, after Michael Angelo Rooker 1792

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Study of Part of the Gateway of Battle Abbey, after Michael Angelo Rooker’ 1792
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Study of Part of the Gateway of Battle Abbey, after Michael Angelo Rooker 1792
D00193
Turner Bequest XVII R
Pencil and watercolour on thin white laid card, 172 x 151 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Mr Arrowsmith’ top right
Blind-stamped with Turner Bequest monogram bottom centre
Stamped in black ‘XVII R’ bottom right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
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

How to cite

Andrew Wilton, ‘Study of Part of the Gateway of Battle Abbey, after Michael Angelo Rooker 1792 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, April 2012, 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-study-of-part-of-the-gateway-of-battle-abbey-after-michael-r1140324, accessed 04 November 2025.