Watercolour on paper
Tate Collection
Works with images
General Collection
Collection
<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/thomas-hennell-1271" aria-label="More by Thomas Hennell" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Thomas Hennell</a>
Landscape Flint Heap RoadMaking
Presented anonymously 1941
architecture
England
England, South East
England, Southern
farmland
industrial
Kent
landscape
places
Ridley
road
storm
townscapes / man-made features
UK cities, towns and villages
UK counties
UK countries and regions
waste tip
weather
<p>Hennell’s chosen road belongs to the pre-modern countryside he would mourn: a rural world without asphalt, motor-cars or any concession to modern speed or convenience.</p><p><em>Gallery label, May 2003</em></p>
paper unique watercolour
10 March 2003 – July 2003
Mar 2003 – July 2003
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2003-03-10
Broken Ground
Collection based display
Landscape: Flint Heap, Road-Making
support: 318 × 483 mm
Presented anonymously 1941
<div>
    Hennell’s chosen road belongs to the  pre-modern countryside he would  mourn: a rural world      without asphalt, motor-cars or any concession to      modern speed or convenience.  </div>

Display caption
2003-05-07T00:00:00
display-caption
DISPLAY_CAPTION
<p><b>N05287</b> LANDSCAPE: FLINT HEAP, ROAD-MAKING <i>c.</i>
1937–41
<br/> 
<br/>Inscr. ‘T. Hennell’ b.r. and on the back: ‘Flint-heap for road making, New Street Farm, Ridley’.
<br/>Watercolour, 12 1/2×19 (32×48).
<br/>Presented by an anonymous donor 1941.</p>
<p>Miss Margery Kendon wrote (22 May 1958): ‘New Street Farm was just over the way from Orchard Cottage and this is in fact the field path from Orchard Cottage to Ridley Rectory where Tom was born. Date will be anything between 1937–41. He lived at Orchard Cottage, Ridley, Kent, from 1936–45.’</p>
<p>It appears that <a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/hennell-landscape-flint-heap-road-making-n05287" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N05287</span></a> and <a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/hennell-the-tree-n05412" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N05412</span></a> were confused in registration and consequently the mode of acquisition was wrongly given in the <i>The British School: A Concise Catalogue</i>, 1953, p.94.</p>
<p><b>Published in:</b>
<br/>Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, <i>The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture</i>, London 1964, I
<br/></p>

Catalogue entry
2004-07-21T00:00:00
catalogue-entry
CATALOGUE_ENTRY
architecture England England, South East England, Southern farmland industrial Kent landscape places Ridley road storm townscapes / man-made features UK cities, towns and villages UK counties UK countries and regions waste tip weather