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

ISBN 978-1-84976-386-8
J.M.W. Turner

Joseph Mallord William Turner Petworth Park: A Team of Eight Cattle Pulling a Wagon ('The Bullock Wagon') 1827

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Petworth Park: A Team of Eight Cattle Pulling a Wagon (‘The Bullock Wagon’) 1827
D22760
Turner Bequest CCXLIV 98
Gouache and watercolour on blue wove paper, 141 x 190 mm
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.
Ian Warrell has noted that oxen were a distinctive feature of Petworth, with the third earl keeping them to pull ploughs and farm wagons.1 Here Turner records the cattle harnessed to a cart, a motif that is repeated elsewhere as part of another Petworth scene, this time with a brilliant sunset (Mint Museum, Charlotte, North Carolina).
1
Butlin, Luther, Warrell 1989, p.109.
Verso:
The verso could not be inspected at the time of cataloguing.

Elizabeth Jacklin
December 2018

How to cite

Elizabeth Jacklin, ‘Petworth Park: A Team of Eight Cattle Pulling a Wagon (‘The Bullock Wagon’) 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-a-team-of-eight-cattle-pulling-a-wagon-the-bullock-wagon-r1209087, accessed 13 May 2025.