J.M.W. Turner
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
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
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
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
Exhibition history
1953
Display of Watercolours from the Turner Bequest, Tate Gallery, London, January 1953–April 1959 (no catalogue, as ‘Petworth: blue and white china jars’).
1970
Turner at Petworth: An Exhibition Arranged by the National Trust of Drawings of Petworth by J.M.W. Turner R.A. 1775–1851, Petworth House, Petworth, June–August 1970 (no catalogue).
1974
Turner 1775–1851, Royal Academy, London, November 1974–March 1975 (345).
1975
Turner 1775–1851: zhivopis’, risunok, akvarel’, Hermitage Museum, Leningrad, October–November 1975, Pushkin Museum, Moscow, December 1975–January 1976 (35).
1976
J.M.W. Turner 1775–1851: Akvareller og Tegninger fra British Museum, Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, February–May 1976 (45).
1976
William Turner und die Landschaft seiner Zeit, Hamburger Kunsthalle, May–July 1976 (67).
1978
Turner 1775–1851, Haags Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, December 1978–February 1979 (46).
1979
Oleos y acuarelas de Joseph Mallord William Turner, Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas, Venezuela, October[–?November] 1979 (BM 44).
1979
Exposicion del gran pintor ingles, William Turner: Oleos y acuarelas: Collecciones de la Tate Gallery, British Museum y otros museos ingleses, Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City, August–September 1979 (BM44).
1982
J.M.W. Turner Watercolors from the British Museum, Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia, Athens, March–May 1982, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, May–July 1982 (31).
2002
Turner at Petworth, Petworth House, Petworth, July–September 2002 (55).
References
1909
A.J. Finberg, A Complete Inventory of the Drawings of the Turner Bequest, London 1909, vol.II, p.744, CCXLIV 19, as ‘Blue and white china jars, &c.’.
1969
Graham Reynolds, Turner, London 1969, pp.[136] pl.116, 135.
1970
Lord Egremont and Kenneth Clark, Turner at Petworth: An Exhibition Arranged by the National Trust of Drawings of Petworth by J.M.W. Turner R.A. 1775–1851, exhibition catalogue, Petworth House, Petworth 1970.
1974
Martin Butlin, Andrew Wilton and John Gage, Turner 1775–1851, exhibition catalogue, Royal Academy, London 1974, p.111 as ‘Petworth: Part of a Wall of a Room, with Large Blue and White China Jars flanking a Gilt Console Table’#.
1975
Graham Reynolds, Turner 1775–1851: zhivopis’, risunok, akvarel’, exhibition catalogue, Hermitage Museum, Leningrad 1975, p.13.
1976
David Loshak and Andrew Wilton, J.M.W. Turner 1775–1851: Akvareller og Tegninger fra British Museum, exhibition catalogue, Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen 1976, as ‘Petworth: Part of a Wall of a Room, with Large Blue and White China Jars flanking a Gilt Console Table’.
1976
Werner Hofmann, Andrew Wilton, Siegmar Hosten and others, William Turner und die Landschaft seiner Zeit, exhibition catalogue, Hamburger Kunsthalle 1976, no.67 reproduced, p.18.
1978
John Sillevis, Nini Jonker and Hripsimé Visser, Turner 1775–1851, exhibition catalogue, Haags Gemeentemuseum, The Hague 1978, no.46 reproduced as ‘Blue and white China jars’.
1979
John Gage and Ana T. de Gradowska, Oleos y acuarelas de Joseph Mallord William Turner, exhibition catalogue, Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas, Venezuela 1979, no.BM 44.
1979
John Gage, Exposicion del gran pintor ingles, William Turner: Oleos y acuarelas: Collecciones de la Tate Gallery, British Museum y otros museos ingleses, exhibition catalogue, Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City 1979, no.BM44, p.38 reproduced.
1982
Lindsay Stainton and Richard S. Schneiderman, J.M.W. Turner Watercolors from the British Museum, exhibition catalogue, Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia, Athens 1982, no.31 reproduced as ‘Petworth: China Jars’.
1989
Martin Butlin, Mollie Luther and Ian Warrell, Turner at Petworth: Painter and Patron, London 1989, pp. 143, 144, 191 pl.41.
1990
Martin Butlin, Mollie Luther and Ian Warrell, Turner: Les Années Egremont: Chefs d’oeuvre inédits, trans. Tamara Préaud, Paris 1990, pl.41.
1991
Ian Warrell, Turner: The Fourth Decade: Watercolours 1820–1830, exhibition catalogue, Tate Gallery, London 1991, p.60 under no.64.
2002
Christopher Rowell, Ian Warrell and David Blayney Brown, Turner at Petworth, exhibition catalogue, Petworth House, Petworth 2002, pp.122 fig.120, 124, 126, 196 under no.55.
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.
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