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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Deer in Petworth Park, from the Upperton Monument 1825

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Deer in Petworth Park, from the Upperton Monument’ 1825
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Folio 20 Recto:
Deer in Petworth Park, from the Upperton Monument 1825
D18741
Turner Bequest CCXIII 20
Pencil on white wove paper, 113 x 187 mm
Part watermark ‘R Bar | 18’
Inscribed by John Ruskin in red ink ‘20’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCXIII – 20’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
The view is to the south-east from the vicinity of the Upperton Monument folly in Petworth Park,1 with Petworth House barely indicated about a mile and a half away in the distance to the left of centre. A herd of deer appears at the lower right.2 There is a similar view with a little less detail on folio 19 recto opposite (D18740); Finberg took the two pages to form a continuous panorama.3
The sequence of sketches between folio 17 verso (D18736) and (apparently) folio 26 recto (D18753), and possibly 26 verso (D18754), comprises Sussex subjects in the vicinity of Petworth, those as far as folio 22 verso (D18746) showing the park west of the house. For a note on Lord Egremont, Petworth, and Turner’s work there, see the sketchbook’s Introduction.

Matthew Imms
December 2014

1
The subject was identified as ‘Petworth Park’ in undated MS notes by A.J. Finberg (died 1939) and C.F. Bell (died 1966) in their respective copies of Finberg 1909, Tate Britain Prints and Drawings Room, vol.II, p.649; see also Ian Warrell in Butlin, Luther and Warrell 1989, p.131.
2
See Warrell 1989, p.122 note 44 for deer in other Petworth views.
3
Finberg 1909, II, p.649.

How to cite

Matthew Imms, ‘Deer in Petworth Park, from the Upperton Monument 1825 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, December 2014, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, April 2015, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-deer-in-petworth-park-from-the-upperton-monument-r1172863, accessed 23 April 2024.