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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Woodland, Petworth c.1828

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Woodland, Petworth’ c.1828
Folio 57 Verso:
Woodland, Petworth c.1828
D21954
Turner Bequest CCXXXVII 57a
Pencil on white wove paper, 71 x 88 mm
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is one of eight consecutive pages in the sketchbook depicting the pleasure grounds of Petworth, a country house and park in West Sussex, north-east of Chichester. Turner was a regular guest, visiting his friend and patron George O’Brien Wyndham, 3rd Earl of Egremont. For further commentary on Turner’s views of Petworth in this sketchbook and elsewhere, see under folio 56 verso (D21952).
The sketch forms part of a wider vista that continues on folio 58 recto opposite (D21955). In view is the densely shaded woodland of the pleasure garden to the north of the house, designed in the eighteenth century by the celebrated landscape architect Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown.1

Hannah Kaspar
December 2024

1
‘The Pleasure Garden at Petworth’, Petworth, accessed 31 October 2024, https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/sussex/petworth/pleasure-garden-at-petworth-house.

How to cite

Hannah Kaspar, ‘Woodland, Petworth c.1828’, catalogue entry, December 2024, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, February 2025, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/woodland-petworth-r1210512, accessed 02 August 2025.