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 > Hastings Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Rosehill Park c.1816

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Rosehill Park’ c.1816
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 34 Recto:
Rosehill Park circa 1816
D10393
Turner Bequest CXXXIX 34
Pencil white wove on paper, 129 x 205 mm
Inscribed by Turner in pencil ‘Laurel’ upper right of centre and ‘Grass Path’ bottom right
Inscribed by ?John Ruskin in blue ink ‘34’ bottom left, inverted and ‘315’ top left, inverted
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Drawn with the sketchbook inverted, this drawing of trees and a path in the gardens at Rosehill (now Brightling) Park is an extension of the view of the house on folio 33 verso (D10392). See catalogue entry for D10392 for Turner’s watercolour (British Museum, London)1 based on this drawing and adopting the trees and path noted here. The trials of blue watercolour at bottom left were presumably made as he worked on the finished version.
There is part of a view of Fuller’s Observatory at Brightling on the verso (D10394).

David Blayney Brown
May 2011

1
Wilton 1979, p.349 no.438.

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Rosehill Park c.1816 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, May 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-r1131621, accessed 23 September 2024.