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

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J.M.W. Turner

Joseph Mallord William Turner Landscape with Trees, ?in Petworth Park 1827

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Landscape with Trees, ?in Petworth Park’ 1827
Landscape with Trees, ?in Petworth Park 1827
D22718
Turner Bequest CCXLIV 56
Gouache and watercolour on blue wove paper, 140 x 185 mm
Stamped in black ‘CCXLIV 56’ 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.
Turner seems to have spent time sketching the beech, oak and chestnut trees in Petworth Park during his autumn 1827 visit. For other blue paper studies of trees and wooded glades associated with the park, see Tate D22711, D22715, D22717 and D41419 (Turner Bequest CCXLIV 49, 53, 55, CCLIX 153). These studies are for the most part less vibrant in palette than the other views of the park: here Turner has restricted his palette to golden yellow, brown and white.
Verso:
Blank, save for an indistinct sketch of buildings and inscriptions: inscribed in pencil ‘20 | a’ near centre; stamped in black with the Turner Bequest monogram and ‘CCXLIV 56’ bottom left.

Elizabeth Jacklin
December 2018

How to cite

Elizabeth Jacklin, ‘Landscape with Trees, ?in Petworth Park 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/landscape-with-trees-in-petworth-park-r1209081, accessed 24 May 2025.