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Creator:
Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851
Title:

Christ Church Gate, Canterbury

Date:
1793 to 1794
Medium:
Watercolor and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 8 7/8 x 10 3/4 inches (22.5 x 27.3 cm)
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1986.29.494
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
architectural subject | buildings | clouds | gates | genre subject | horses (animals)
Associated Places:
Canterbury | England | Europe | Kent | United Kingdom
Access:
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Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:2135
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Turner and Girtin were born in the same year and began their careers as antiquarian topographers. Turner was making sketching tours while still in his early teens. This view relates to one of two tours of Kent he made in 1792 and 1793. While visiting Canterbury he was clearly attracted to the early sixteenth-century gateway protecting the Cathedral of Christ Church beyond. Although he exhibited a view of the main façade of the gatehouse at the Royal Academy, in this version Turner painted the less grand internal side of the archway, focusing on the narrow street within the Cathedral close and presaging his interest in probing beyond the surface of things.

Gallery label for Great British Watercolors from the Paul Mellon Collection at the Yale Center for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2008-06-09 - 2008-08-17)

Great British Watercolors from the Paul Mellon Collection at the Yale Center for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2008-06-09 - 2008-08-17) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]

Great British Watercolors from the Paul Mellon Collection at the Yale Center for British Art (The State Hermitage Museum, 2007-10-23 - 2008-01-13) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]

Great British Watercolors from the Paul Mellon Collection at the Yale Center for British Art (Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 2007-07-11 - 2007-09-30) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]

Graham Reynolds, Turner : with a new introduction by David Blayney Brown, Thames & Hudson, London, fig. 12, NJ18.T85 R49 2020 (YCBA) [YCBA]

Andrew Wilton, The life and work of J.M.W. Turner, Academy Editions, London, 1979, pp. 306-7, No. 54, NJ18 T85 +W577 OVERSIZE (YCBA) [YCBA]

Yale Center for British Art, Great British watercolors : from the Paul Mellon Collection, Yale University Press, New Haven, 2007, pp. 101-103, no. 43, ND1928 .Y35 2007 (LC)+ Oversize (YCBA) [YCBA]


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