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Creator:
Paul Sandby, 1731–1809
Title:
An Unfinished View of the West Gate, Canterbury
Date:
between 1780 and 1785
Materials & Techniques:
Pen and brown ink and oil on paper laid down on panel
Dimensions:
17 7/8 x 25 inches (45.4 x 63.5 cm)
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1975.1.20
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Link to Frame:
B1975.1.20FR
Subject Terms:
bridge (built work) | buildings | children | cityscape | gate | girls | landscape | leisure | river | riverbank | tower (building division) | trees | unfinished | wall | women
Associated Places:
Canterbury | Europe | Kent | Stour | United Kingdom
Access:
Not on view
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:1433
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Sandby visited Canterbury in the early 1780s and sketched the city's medieval West Gate. This unfinished oil sketch and related gouache both represent the West Gate from different angles. The oil sketch was executed in paper and includes under-drawing in pen and ink, indicative of Sandby's tendency to handle oil in much the same way as he handled gouache at this midpoint in his career.

Gallery label for Connections (Yale Center for British Art, 2011-05-26 - 2011-09-11)

Connections (Yale Center for British Art, 2011-05-26 - 2011-09-11) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]

Oil on Water - Oil Sketches by British Watercolorists (Yale Center for British Art, 1986-08-26 - 1986-11-09) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]

The Art of Paul Sandby (Yale Center for British Art, 1985-04-10 - 1985-06-23) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]

Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 194-195, N590.2 A83 (YCBA) [YCBA]

Malcolm Cormack, Oil on water, oil sketches by British watercolorists , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1986, pp. 51-52, fig. 54, ND467 C67 (YCBA) [YCBA]

The Art of Paul Sandby, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut, 1985, pp. 90-1, no. 119, NJ18 Sa56 R62 (YCBA) [YCBA]


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