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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Petworth Park from the Upperton Monument 1825

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Petworth Park from the Upperton Monument’ 1825
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 21 Verso:
Petworth Park from the Upperton Monument 1825
D18744
Turner Bequest CCXIII 21a
Pencil on white wove paper, 113 x 187 mm
Part watermark ‘R Bar | 18’
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This lightly worked view is to the south-east from the vicinity of the Upperton Monument folly in Petworth Park; 1 it continues across folio 22 recto opposite (D18745), where Petworth House is indicated in the distance. Compare the watercolour of a similar vista, perhaps made at Petworth or nearby in the early 1830s (Tate D29009; CCXCII 59); Tate D29007 (Turner Bequest CCXCII 58), on the same sheet, shows the Upperton Monument itself, as noted under folio 19 recto (D18739).
The sequence of sketches between folio 17 verso (D18736) and (apparently) folio 26 recto (D18753), and possibly 26 verso (D18754), comprises Sussex subjects in the vicinity of Petworth, those as far as folio 22 verso (D18746) showing the park west of the house. For a note on Lord Egremont, Petworth, and Turner’s work there, see the sketchbook’s Introduction.
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The general subject was identified in undated MS notes by A.J. Finberg (died 1939) and C.F. Bell (died 1966) in their respective copies of Finberg 1909, Tate Britain Prints and Drawings Room, vol.II, p.649; for the viewpoint see Ian Warrell in Butlin, Luther and Warrell 1989, p.131.
Technical notes:
A tear halfway down the outer edge has been repaired. The leaf has been removed from the book at some stage and laid onto a shallow modern stub.

Matthew Imms
December 2014

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Petworth Park from the Upperton Monument 1825 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, December 2014, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, April 2015, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-petworth-park-from-the-upperton-monument-r1172866, accessed 19 September 2024.