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

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J.M.W. Turner

Joseph Mallord William Turner The Upperton Monument, Looking down towards Petworth Park c.1827-35

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The Upperton Monument, Looking down towards Petworth Park’ c.1827-35
The Upperton Monument, Looking down towards Petworth Park c.1827–35
D29007
Turner Bequest CCXCII 58
Watercolour on grey wove paper, 107 x 202 mm
Inscribed in red ink ‘[...]’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCXCII 58’ 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 view of the Upperton Monument, an early nineteenth-century folly in Petworth Park possibly designed by Turner’s friend and contemporary, the architect John Soane,1 was made on the same sheet of paper as a landscape study identified as showing the Sussex Downs (Tate D29009; Turner Bequest CCXCII 59). Ian Warrell has suggested that the style and grey (rather than blue) paper support of this sheet is indicative of a slightly later date than the other gouache studies catalogued here, perhaps in the early 1830s.2 There is a related sketch of the Upperton Monument in the earlier, 1825, Mortlake and Pulborough Sketchbook (Tate D18739; Turner Bequest CCXIII 19).
1
Ian Warrell, Turner: The Fourth Decade: Watercolours 1820–1830, exhibition catalogue, Tate Gallery, London 1991, p.64.
2
Butlin, Luther and Warrell 1989, pp.127–8.
Verso:
For a study and inscriptions by Turner made on the verso, see the entries for D29008
(Turner Bequest CCXCII 58 v) and D29010 (Turner Bequest CCXCII 59 v).

Elizabeth Jacklin
December 2018

How to cite

Elizabeth Jacklin, ‘The Upperton Monument, Looking down towards Petworth Park c.1827–35’, 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/the-upperton-monument-looking-down-towards-petworth-park-r1209100, accessed 16 July 2025.