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

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J.M.W. Turner

Joseph Mallord William Turner Petworth Park: Teasing the Donkeys 1827

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Petworth Park: Teasing the Donkeys’ 1827
Petworth Park: Teasing the Donkeys 1827
D22759
Turner Bequest CCXLIV 97
Gouache and watercolour on blue wove paper, 145 x 190 mm
Stamped in black ‘CCXLIV 97’ 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’s studies include the livestock owned by Lord Egremont, with oxen, horses, dogs and deer finding their way into the sketches he made of Petworth Park.1 On the present sheet Turner portrayed two donkeys, apparently being bothered by two smaller animals, presumably dogs. He also depicted the park’s donkeys on another sheet catalogued in this section (Tate D22769; Turner Bequest CCXLIV 107).
1
Butlin, Luther and Warrell 1989, p.147.
Verso:
The sheet has been laid down and the verso could not be inspected at the time of cataloguing.

Elizabeth Jacklin
December 2018

How to cite

Elizabeth Jacklin, ‘Petworth Park: Teasing the 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-teasing-the-donkeys-r1209086, accessed 21 May 2025.