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Cemetery Gate St Augustines Monastery Canterbury
Presented by William Sandby 1901
adults
animals: mammals
architecture
Canterbury, St Augustine’s Monastery
England
England, South East
England, Southern
figure
gate
horse
house
Kent
medieval
monastery
people
periods and styles
places
religious
residential
square
townscapes / man-made features
UK cities, towns and villages
UK counties
UK countries and regions
<p>Sandby has treated the medieval gateway with the care associated with topographical draughtsmanship (the accurate recording of particular places) but here it forms the backdrop for a humorous and incident-filled scene of daily life.</p><p>Topographical draughtsmanship was an important skill in the military, used in the surveying of land and fortifications. Sandby was trained as a military draughtsman, but he developed original approaches. By the 1790s Sandby was thought of as the crucial figure in British landscape art, who had forged a specifically ‘national’ style of watercolour.</p><p><em>Gallery label, September 2004</em></p>
paper unique watercolour graphite
The Cemetery Gate of St Augustine’s Monastery Canterbury
support: 324 × 508 mm
Presented by William Sandby 1901
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<span class="text11">Sandby has treated the medieval gateway </span><span class="text13">with the care associated with topographical </span><span class="text11">draughtsmanship (the accurate recording of particular      places) but here it forms the backdrop for a humorous and incident-filled      scene of daily life.  </span>
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<span class="text11">Topographical draughtsmanship was an important skill      in the military, used in the surveying of land and fortifications. </span><span class="text6">Sandby</span><span class="text11"> </span><span class="text7">was trained as a military draughtsman,  but he developed original      approaches.  By the 1790s Sandby was thought of as  the crucial figure in      British <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/l/landscape" title="Glossary definition for 'Landscape'"><span>landscape</span></a> art, who had forged a specifically ‘national’      </span><span class="text11">style of <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/w/watercolour" title="Glossary definition for 'Watercolour'"><span>watercolour</span></a>.  </span>
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adults animals: mammals architecture Canterbury, St Augustine’s Monastery England England, South East England, Southern figure gate horse house Kent medieval monastery people periods and styles places religious residential square townscapes / man-made features UK cities, towns and villages UK counties UK countries and regions