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

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J.M.W. Turner

Joseph Mallord William Turner View near Petworth, with the Church in the Distance c.1827

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘View near Petworth, with the Church in the Distance’ c.1827
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 1 Verso:
View near Petworth, with the Church in the Distance c.1827
D22578
Turner Bequest CCXLIII 1a
Pencil on white wove paper, 114 x 182 mm
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This quick sketch of a vista near Petworth House shows the newly erected spire of Petworth’s Church of St Mary the Virgin seen in the central distance, framed by foreground trees.
For information about the developments to the church and Turner’s drawings specifically focused on the building from the same visit, see the ‘Petworth Church’ subsection. For separate landscape studies with views of the church, including comparable distant outlooks encompassing the dominant new spire, see the following sheets in the ‘Petworth Park and Surrounding Landscape’ subsection: D22667–D22668, D22670–D22671 (Turner Bequest CCXLIV 5–6, 8, 9).

Elizabeth Jacklin
December 2018

How to cite

Elizabeth Jacklin, ‘View near Petworth, with the 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-view-near-petworth-with-the-church-in-the-distance-r1207268, accessed 01 October 2025.