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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Petworth House: The Carved Room, with Blue and White China Jars Flanking a Gilt Console Table, and Carvings by Grinling Gibbons 1827

Petworth House: The Carved Room, with Blue and White China Jars Flanking a Gilt Console Table, and Carvings by Grinling Gibbons 1827
D22681
Turner Bequest CCXLIV 19
Gouache and watercolour on blue wove paper, 137 x 190 mm
Stamped in black ‘CCXLIV 19’ bottom right
Blind stamped with Turner Bequest monogram bottom right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is one of a large group of separate studies, most of which were made in gouache and watercolour on blue paper, associated with a visit to Petworth House in West Sussex, the home of the third Earl of Egremont. For more information, see the Introduction to this section.
The interior shown here is Petworth’s Carved Room, which is also known as the Long Dining Room: Turner had probably already begun work on a group of landscape oil paintings for this room at the time of making this sketch (for more information, see the overall Introduction to this section). The room takes its name from its magnificent lime wood carvings by Grinling Gibbons (1648–1721). Although two areas of carving are roughly indicated here within two gilt bordered panels on the east wall, Turner focuses more on two blue and white china jars seen on either side of a gilt console table.
For another study of the Carved Room, see the entry for Tate D22698 (Turner Bequest CCXLIV 36); D22708 (Turner Bequest CCXLIV 46) may also be a view of the room.
Verso:
Blank, save for inscriptions: inscribed in pencil ‘8 c’ centre; stamped in black ‘CCXLIV 19’ bottom left; stamped in black with Turner Bequest monogram bottom left.

Elizabeth Jacklin
February 2019

How to cite

Elizabeth Jacklin, ‘Petworth House: The Carved Room, with Blue and White China Jars Flanking a Gilt Console Table, and Carvings by Grinling Gibbons 1827’, catalogue entry, February 2019, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, November 2024, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/petworth-house-the-carved-room-with-blue-and-white-china-jars-flanking-a-gilt-console-r1209114, accessed 17 July 2025.