- Title:
- A View of Esq. Turner's Garden at Valence in Kent
- Date:
- undated
- Materials & Techniques:
- Pen and gray ink, and gray wash on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 10 x 16 1/8 inches (25.4 x 41 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in brown ink, lower left: "Jn. Donowell dilin"; inscribed on back in brown ink, lower right: "View £2-2-0 | figures-0-10-6 | 2=12=6"; in brown ink, lower center: "A View of Es.9 Turner Garden with a Beautiful rural Caskaid that flowes out of a thick wood into | a large Bassen in the Garden & then wastes it self underground"; in graphite, center: light sketch; in graphite, lower right: "19 [encircled] | D436"; in graphite, lower right (under "B" number): illegible (initials?)
Watermark: LVG fleur-de-lis, similar to Heawood 1852; collector's mark, verso: Paul Mellon
Signed in brown ink, lower left: "Jn. Donowell dilin"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1986.29.375
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- arches | garden | landscape | leisure | steps | trees
- Associated Places:
- England | Europe | Kent | Sutton Valence | United Kingdom
- 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:2016
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David Jacques, Gardens of Court and Country : English Design , 1630-1730, New Haven : Yale Univeristy Press, 2017, p. 209, fig. 168, SB466 G7 +J334 2017 (YCBA) [YCBA]