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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner

Joseph Mallord William Turner Petworth Park: Three Donkeys 1827

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Petworth Park: Three Donkeys’ 1827
Petworth Park: Three Donkeys 1827
D22769
Turner Bequest CCXLIV 107
Gouache and watercolour on blue wove paper, 140 x 193 mm
Stamped in black ‘CCXLIV 107’ 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 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 present study of Petworth Park is one of two in the Turner Bequest to include donkeys: for the other see D22759 (Turner Bequest CCXLIV 97). This study is the more detailed of the two. Turner took an interest in Lord Egremont’s livestock during his stay, also depicting oxen, horses, dogs and deer within his sketches.1
1
Butlin, Luther and Warrell 1989, p.147.
Technical notes:
The once blue paper around the image is discoloured, likely the result of past overexposure to light while displayed in a window mount.
Verso:
Blank, save for inscriptions: inscribed in pencil ‘36 a’ near centre; stamped in black with the Turner Bequest monogram and ‘CCXLIV 107’ bottom left.

Elizabeth Jacklin
December 2018

How to cite

Elizabeth Jacklin, ‘Petworth Park: Three Donkeys 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-three-donkeys-r1209091, accessed 22 May 2025.