J.M.W. Turner
Joseph Mallord William Turner Petworth Park: Sunset ('Glade and Greensward') 1827
Joseph Mallord William Turner,
Petworth Park: Sunset ('Glade and Greensward')
1827
Petworth Park: Sunset (‘Glade and Greensward’) 1827
D22767
Turner Bequest CCXLIV 105
Turner Bequest CCXLIV 105
Gouache and watercolour on blue wove paper, 138 x 191 mm
Stamped in black ‘CCXLIV 105’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCXLIV 105’ bottom right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Exhibition history
1896
Fifth Loan Collection, National Gallery, London 1896, Grosvenor Museum, Chester 1897–9, Corporation Galleries, Glasgow 1900–2, National Gallery, London 1903, Museum and Art Gallery, Bristol 1904–6, National Gallery, London 1907–8, Liverpool Art Gallery 1909–10, Aberdeen 1911, Nottingham Art Gallery 1912, Grosvenor Museum, Chester 1913, Museum and Art Gallery, Plymouth, February 1914, Blackpool 1915, Blackburn Art Gallery 1916–18, Bradford Art Gallery 1919–20, Burnley 1921–2, Colne 1923–4, Rawtenstall 1925–6, Tate Gallery, London 1927–30, transferred to the British Museum, London 1931 (16), as ‘? Petworth’.
1959
[Display of watercolours from the Turner Bequest], Tate Gallery, London, June/July 1959–January 1965 (no catalogue, as ‘Glade and greensward’).
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).
1979
Turner at Petworth, Petworth House, Petworth August–October 1979 (no catalogue).
1992
Turner as Professor: The Artist and Linear Perspective, Tate Gallery, London, October 1992–January 1993 (no catalogue number).
1997
J.M.W. Turner 1775–1851: A Tate Gallery Collection Exhibition, Yokohama Museum of Art, June–August 1997, Fukuoka Art Museum, September–October, Nagoya City Art Museum, October–December 1997 (49).
1997
Joseph Mallord William Turner, Bank Austria Kunstforum, Vienna, March–June 1997 (57).
2005
Turner at Petworth, Tate Gallery, London, October 2005–April 2006 (no catalogue).
2013
Turner’s Sussex, Petworth House, Petworth, January–March 2013 (30, as ‘Petworth Park, Sunset’, 1827).
References
1909
A.J. Finberg, A Complete Inventory of the Drawings of the Turner Bequest, London 1909, vol.II, p.746, CCXLIV 105, as ‘Glade and greensward’.
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.
1989
Martin Butlin, Mollie Luther and Ian Warrell, Turner at Petworth: Painter and Patron, London 1989, pp. 108 note 20, 121, 122 note 44, 147, 227 pl.77.
1990
Martin Butlin, Mollie Luther and Ian Warrell, Turner: Les Années Egremont: Chefs d’oeuvre inédits, trans. Tamara Préaud, Paris 1990, pl.77.
1992
Maurice Davies, Turner as Professor: The Artist and Linear Perspective, exhibition catalogue, Tate Gallery, London 1992, fig.127, p.95.
1997
David B[layney] Brown, Yasuhide Shimbata and Hideko Numata,J.M.W. Turner 1775–1851: A Tate Gallery Collection Exhibition, exhibition catalogue, Yokohama Museum of Art 1997, no.49 reproduced, pp.32, 36.
1997
David Blayney Brown, Klaus Albrecht Schröder, Evelyn Benesch and others, Joseph Mallord William Turner, exhibition catalogue, Bank Austria Kunstforum, Vienna 1997, no.57 reproduced, 21, 34, 122 under no.10, 217, 234 under no.63.
2013
Andrew Loukes, Turner’s Sussex, exhibition catalogue, Petworth House, Petworth 2013, p.20 no.30, as ‘Petworth Park, Sunset’, 1827.
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.
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
