Joseph Mallord William Turner

Petworth Park and All Hallows Church, Tillington, from the Upperton Monument

1825

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Artist: Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Part of: Mortlake and Pulborough Sketchbook
Medium: Watercolour on paper
Dimensions: Support: 113 × 187 mm
Collection: Tate
Acquisition: Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Reference: D18736
Turner Bequest CCXIII 17 a

Catalogue entry

This panoramic prospect, which continues across folio 18 recto opposite (D18737), is to the south-east from the vicinity of the Upperton Monument folly in Petworth Park. In the distance on the right here is Petworth House, about a mile and a half away, while the tower of All Hallows, Tillington appears on the other page.1 There is a condensed version of the overall view on folio 18 verso (D18738).

The sequence of sketches between here 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.

Matthew Imms
December 2014

The 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.648; see also Warrell in Butlin, Luther and Warrell 1989, p.131.

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