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

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > East Sussex c.1806-20 > Views in Sussex Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner Rosehill Park 1810

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘Rosehill Park’ 1810
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
Rosehill Park 1810
D10342
Turner Bequest CXXXVIII 19
Pencil on white wove paper, 203 x 328 mm
Inscribed by an unknown hand in pencil ‘CXXXVIII 19’ bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CXXXVIII 19’ bottom right
Blind-stamped with the Turner Bequest monogram lower right of centre
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Probably a left-hand page of the sketchbook, with stitch holes on the right.
For Rosehill Park in this sketchbook see D10329; Turner Bequest CXXXVIII 10, the drawing for the painting made for John Fuller circa 1810 (private collection)1 which includes the house itself. The present drawing, looking from the back of the house towards the coast, stretching from Pevensey Bay on the left to Beachy Head, served for the watercolour The Vale of Pevensey, from Rosehill Park (Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge)2 which Turner made for Fuller at the same time and was aquatinted by Joseph Stadler for Four Large Coloured Views in Sussex published circa 1818. As Eric Shanes observes, the two views were clearly intended to be complementary.3 This one includes, in the right distance, the Rotunda designed for Fuller by Robert Smirke.
The leaf is discoloured from exposure.
Verso: detail of trees and weald or downs.

David Blayney Brown
April 2011

1
Martin Butlin and Evelyn Joll, The Paintings of J.M.W. Turner, revised ed., New Haven and London 1984, p.130 no.211 (pl.212).
2
Wilton 1979, p.349 no.432.
3
Shanes 1981, p.18.

How to cite

David Blayney Brown, ‘Rosehill Park 1810 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, April 2011, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, December 2012, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-rosehill-park-r1131386, accessed 24 November 2024.