J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > East Sussex c.1806-20 > Vale of Heathfield Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Rosehill Park 1810

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Rosehill Park’ 1810
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 28 Verso:
Rosehill Park 1810
D10244
Turner Bequest CXXXVII 27a
Pencil on white wove paper, 181 x 228 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Fuller’ top right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This tiny sketch, drawn at the top right corner of the page with the sketchbook inverted, is a distant view of Rosehill (now Brightling) Park, the home of John Fuller, set against clumps of trees. Turner painted Rosehill for Fuller in 1810 (private collection),1 in a rather similar distant view. See Introduction to the sketchbook for Fuller’s commissions to Turner that year and the artist’s later work for him. For other drawings of the house see the two Hastings sketchbooks (D07689, D07695; Turner Bequest CXI 61, 65 and Tate D10392–D10393; Turner Bequest CXXXIX 33a–34).

David Blayney Brown
March 2011

1
Martin Butlin and Evelyn Joll, The Paintings of J.M.W. Turner, revised ed., New Haven and London 1984, p.130 no.211 (pl.212).

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Rosehill Park 1810 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, March 2011, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2012, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-rosehill-park-r1131287, accessed 24 April 2024.