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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Petworth Park: Sunset ('Glade and Greensward') 1827

Petworth Park: Sunset (‘Glade and Greensward’) 1827
D22767
Turner Bequest CCXLIV 105
Gouache and watercolour on blue wove paper, 138 x 191 mm
Stamped in black ‘CCXLIV 105’ 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 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.
D22669 (Turner Bequest CCXLIV 7) presents a similar view of the park, although in the other sheet the sunset is a more vibrant affair; here Turner’s palette is soft and harmonious. Like many of Turner’s views of Petworth Park, for example, his painting Petworth Park: Tillington Church in the Distance (Tate N00559), deer are shown grazing in the foreground.
The study has been more closely linked to the views seen in D22716 and D22719 (Turner Bequest CCXLIV 54 and 57), with Ian Warrell hypothesizing that each study in this group represents a stage in a Petworth Park sunset series.1 As discussed in the Introduction to this subsection, sunsets are an important feature of Turner’s 1827 views of Petworth.
1
Butlin, Luther and Warrell 1989, p.121 note 20.
Verso:
Blank, save for inscriptions: inscribed in pencil ‘110 a’ top left and ‘40 | a’ near centre; stamped in black with the Turner Bequest monogram and ‘CCXLIV 105’ bottom left.

Elizabeth Jacklin
December 2018

How to cite

Elizabeth Jacklin, ‘Petworth Park: Sunset (‘Glade and Greensward’) 1827’, catalogue entry, December 2018, 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-park-sunset-glade-and-greensward-r1209089, accessed 01 May 2026.