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

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Joseph Mallord William Turner The Upperton Monument, from the Lake in Petworth Park 1827

The Upperton Monument, from the Lake in Petworth Park 1827
D24799
Turner Bequest CCLIX 234
Watercolour and gouache on blue wove paper, 139 x 185 mm
Stamped in black ‘CCLIX 234’ 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.
This sheet had long been associated with Turner’s colour studies of European rivers, but was identified as a sunset view looking across one of Petworth’s lakes towards the Upperton Monument in 1989.1 The Upperton Monument, a folly at the north-western edge of the park, is thought to have been designed for Lord Egremont by Turner’s friend and contemporary, the architect John Soane (1753–1837).2 For a related, but more distant, view of the structure, see D24635 (Turner Bequest CCLIX 70).
1
See Butlin, Luther and Warrell 1989, pp.147, 243.
2
Warrell 1991, p.64.
Verso:
Blank, save for inscriptions: inscribed in pencil ‘24’ near centre and ‘CCLIX 234’ lower centre; stamped in black with Turner Bequest monogram and ‘CCLIX 234’ bottom left.

Elizabeth Jacklin
December 2018

How to cite

Elizabeth Jacklin, ‘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/the-upperton-monument-from-the-lake-in-petworth-park-r1209099, accessed 12 May 2025.