Pen and brown ink and oil on paper laid down on panel
Dimensions:
17 7/8 x 25 inches (45.4 x 63.5 cm)
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1975.1.20
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
riverbank | cityscape | children | landscape | leisure | unfinished | girls | women | trees | buildings | wall | gate | tower (building division) | bridge (built work) | river
Associated Places:
United Kingdom | Kent | Canterbury | Stour | Europe
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Connections (Yale Center for British Art, 2011-05-26 - 2011-09-11)Oil on Water - Oil Sketches by British Watercolorists (Yale Center for British Art, 1986-08-26 - 1986-11-09)The Art of Paul Sandby (Yale Center for British Art, 1985-04-10 - 1985-06-23)
Publications:
Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 194-195, N590.2 .A83 (YCBA)Malcolm Cormack, Oil on water : oil sketches by British watercolorists, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1986, pp. 51-52, fig. 54, ND467 C67 (YCBA)The Art of Paul Sandby, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut, 1985, pp. 90-1, no. 119, NJ18 Sa56 R62 (YCBA)
Gallery Label:
Sandby visited Canterbury in the early 1780s and sketched the city's medieval West Gate. This unfinished oil sketch and related gouache both represent the West Gate from different angles. The oil sketch was executed in paper and includes under-drawing in pen and ink, indicative of Sandby's tendency to handle oil in much the same way as he handled gouache at this midpoint in his career. Gallery label for Connections (Yale Center for British Art, 2011-05-26 - 2011-09-11)