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The Gatehouse of Battle Abbey, Sussex

Thomas Girtin

English, 1775–1802

The Gatehouse of Battle Abbey, Sussex

c. 1794

Medium pen and brown ink and watercolor over graphite on white wove paper
Dimensions Overall: 10 3/4 x 9 1/4 in. (27.3 x 23.5 cm)
Object Number 2007.8.84
Acquisition Gift of the Manton Art Foundation in memory of Sir Edwin and Lady Manton, 2007
Status Off View

Image Caption

Thomas Girtin, The Gatehouse of Battle Abbey, Sussex, c. 1794, pen and brown ink and watercolor over graphite on white wove paper. Clark Art Institute, gift of the Manton Art Foundation in memory of Sir Edwin and Lady Manton, 2007.8.84

Select Bibliography

. Exhibition of Works by Thomas Girtin. London: Leicester Galleries. 1912. Wilton, Andrew. Turner, Girtin and Bonington: A New York Private Collection, Paintings, Watercolours, and Drawings. New York: Privately Published, 2001. Clarke, Jay, ed. Landscape, Innovation, and Nostalgia: The Manton Collection of British Art. Williamstown, MA: The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 2012.

Provenance

W. C. Alexander (in 1912); private collection, by descent, sold to Spink, 1998; [Spink-Leger Pictures, 1998–1999, no. K3 11560, sold to Manton, June 1999]; Sir Edwin A. G. Manton, New York (1999–d. 2005); Manton Family Art Foundation (2005–2007, given to the Clark); Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 2007.

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