- Title:
The Great Gate of St. Augustine's Monastery, Canterbury
- Part Of:
- Date:
- 1757
- Medium:
- Watercolor with pen and gray ink over graphite on thick, textured, cream laid paper on contemporary mount
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 8 1/8 × 15 3/16 inches (20.6 × 38.6 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
In pen and brown ink, on verso: "The Great Gate of St. Austin's Monastery | J. Skelton 1757."; on a seperate backing sheet, in pen and brown ink: "St. Augustine's Monastery. Canterbury. | J Skelton 1757"; in a different hand, in graphite: "St. Augustines Monastery | Canterbury | J Skelton | 1757 No. 2"
Signed and dated
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1975.4.1734
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
Note: The Study Room is open by appointment. Please visit the Study Room page on our website for more details. - Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:12935
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The Art of Paul Sandby (Yale Center for British Art, 1985-04-10 - 1985-06-23) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
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Sotheby's sale catalogue : Fine eighteenth and nineteenth century drawings and paintings : 13 July 1966, Sotheby's, July 13, 1966, p. 4, lot 9, Auction Catalogues (YCBA)
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Scott Wilcox, Line of beauty : British drawings and watercolors of the eighteenth century, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2001, p. 156, no. 132, NC228 W53 2001 (YCBA) [YCBA]
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