Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
John Hamilton Mortimer, 1740–1779, British
Title:
West Gate of Pevensey Castle, Sussex
Date:
between 1773 and 1774
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
27 7/8 x 35 3/4 inches (70.8 x 90.8 cm)
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1984.9
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
walking | bricks | man | architecture | woman | west | Medieval | plants | fields (agricultural land) | rural | castle | fort | grass | gate | bonnet (hat) | ruins | fence | landscape | birds | sky | clouds | rocks (landforms)
Associated Places:
Sussex | United Kingdom | England | Pevensey | East Sussex
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Art in Focus : The British Castle - A Symbol in Stone (Yale Center for British Art, 2017-04-07 - 2017-08-06)

Nobleness and Grandeur - Forging Historical Landscape in Britain, 1760 - 1850 (Yale Center for British Art, 2005-01-27 - 2005-04-24)

Canaletto to Constable: Paintings of Town and Country from the Yale Center for British Art (Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, 1998-02-08 - 1998-04-26)

Canaletto to Constable: Paintings of Town and Country from the Yale Center for British Art (The Grand Rapids Art Museum, 1999-10-22 - 2000-01-02)

Canaletto to Constable: Paintings of Town and Country from the Yale Center for British Art (Ferrara Galleries of Modern & Contemporary Art, 2001-02-25 - 2001-05-20)
Publications:
Canaletto to Constable : paintings of town and country from the Yale Center for British Art, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Conn., 1998, pp. 15, 71, pl. 23, ND1354.4 Y25 1998 (YCBA)

Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 164, 165, N590.2 .A83 (YCBA)

Greg Smith, Thomas Jones (1742-1803) : an artist rediscovered, , Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 2003, pp. 33, 34, fig. 16, NJ18 J714 T56 2003 OVERSIZE (YCBA)

The British Castle : A Symbol in Stone, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 2017, p. 31, cat. 26, V2722 (YCBA)

The British Castle, A Symbol in Stone, , The Wall Street International, May 11, 2017, https://wsimag.com/art/25777-the-british-castle-a-symbol-in-stone
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:1240