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

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J.M.W. Turner

Joseph Mallord William Turner A Distant View of the Upperton Monument, from the Lake in Petworth Park 1827

Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘A Distant View of the Upperton Monument, from the Lake in Petworth Park’ 1827
A Distant View of the Upperton Monument, from the Lake in Petworth Park 1827
D24635
Turner Bequest CCLIX 70
Watercolour and gouache on blue wove paper, 138 x 191 mm
Stamped in black ‘CCLIX 70’ bottom right
Blind stamped with Turner Bequest monogram 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.
The sunset view on this sheet was noted by Ian Warrell as having much in common with Turner’s studies of Petworth Lake, having previously been presumed to be a view on the Seine.1 It has since been more firmly identified as a view across the lake towards the Upperton Monument, an early nineteenth-century folly on the north-western edge of Petworth Park.2 The building is here shown blending into the trees. For another sunset view of the structure seen from a little closer by, see D24799 (Turner Bequest CCLIX 234).
1
Warrell 1991, p.41.
2
Rowell, Warrell and Brown 2002, p.195.
Verso:
Blank, save for inscriptions: inscribed in pencil ‘3 | l’ near centre; stamped in black with Turner Bequest monogram and ‘CCLIX 70’ near centre.

Elizabeth Jacklin
December 2018

How to cite

Elizabeth Jacklin, ‘A Distant View of the Upperton Monument, from the Lake 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/a-distant-view-of-the-upperton-monument-from-the-lake-in-petworth-park-r1209097, accessed 20 May 2025.