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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Sketch for 'Petworth Park: Tillington Church in the Distance' c.1827

Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 74 Recto:
Sketch for 'Petworth Park: Tillington Church in the Distance' c.1827
D22658
Turner Bequest CCXLIII 78
Pencil on white wove paper, 114 x 182 mm
Inscribed in red ink ‘78’ top left (upside down)
Stamped in black ‘CCXLIII 78’ top left (upside down)
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Inverted relative to the sketchbook’s foliation, this and the opposite page (Tate D22657; Turner Bequest CCXLIII 77a) form a sketch that relates closely to the background landscape in Turner’s oil Petworth Park: Tillington Church in the Distance of about 1828 (Tate N00559),1 a painting made in relation to a scheme for the Carved Room at Petworth (for more information, see the Introduction to this subsection and the entry for D22657).
1
Butlin and Joll 1984, pp.165–6 no.283, pl.285 (colour).
Verso:
Blank, apart from some ink near the right-hand edge which probably relates to the drawing on the next page (D22650; Turner Bequest CCXLIII 73).

Elizabeth Jacklin
December 2018

How to cite

Elizabeth Jacklin, ‘Sketch for 'Petworth Park: Tillington Church in the Distance' c.1827 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, December 2018, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, March 2024, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-sketch-for-petworth-park-tillington-church-in-the-distance-r1207343, accessed 04 August 2025.