Prints and Drawings Room
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- Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
- Part of
- Petworth Sketchbook
- Medium
- Graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- Support: 114 × 182 mm
- Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
- Reference
- D22657
Turner Bequest CCXLIII 77 a
Display caption
Turner's painting of Petworth Park encompasses an extremely wide view that occupied about three landscaoe-format pages of a sketchbook. In the painting he compressed the scene, pulling it inwards at the edges and bottom with curves. These curves may have been suggested by the path that winds round the park (see no.122 and the lower sketch in no.125).
Gallery label, September 2004
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