J.M.W. Turner
Joseph Mallord William Turner Sunset across the Park from the Terrace of Petworth House 1827
Joseph Mallord William Turner,
Sunset across the Park from the Terrace of Petworth House
1827
Sunset across the Park from the Terrace of Petworth House 1827
D22664
Turner Bequest CCXLIV 2
Turner Bequest CCXLIV 2
Gouache and watercolour on blue wove paper, 140 x 193 mm
Stamped in black ‘CCXLIV 2’ bottom right
Blind stamped with Turner Bequest monogram bottom right
Stamped in black ‘CCXLIV 2’ bottom right
Blind stamped with Turner Bequest monogram bottom right
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
Exhibition history
1934
Four Screens, British Museum, London, July 1934–July 1935 (no catalogue, as ‘Evening, Petworth Park’).
1965
[Display of watercolours from the Turner Bequest], Tate Gallery, London, [?]March 1965 (no catalogue, as ‘Evening, Petworth Park’).
1970
Turner: Watercolours Lent by the British Museum, Musée Provisoire d’Art Moderne, Brussels, November 1970–January 1971 (38).
1974
Turner 1775–1851, Royal Academy, London, November 1974–March 1975 (342).
1975
Turner 1775–1851: zhivopis’, risunok, akvarel’, Hermitage Museum, Leningrad, October–November 1975, Pushkin Museum, Moscow, December 1975–January 1976 (34).
1976
J.M.W. Turner 1775–1851: Akvareller og Tegninger fra British Museum, Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, February–May 1976 (44).
1976
William Turner und die Landschaft seiner Zeit, Hamburger Kunsthalle, May–July 1976 (66).
1978
Watercolours from the Turner Bequest, Lent by the British Museum, Tate Gallery, London, January–June 1978 (no catalogue, as ‘Petworth’).
1991
Turner: The Fourth Decade: Watercolours 1820–1830, Tate Gallery, London, January–May 1991 (71).
1992
Turner as Professor: The Artist and Linear Perspective, Tate Gallery, London, October 1992–January 1993 (no catalogue number).
1997
J.M.W. Turner 1775–1851: A Tate Gallery Collection Exhibition, Yokohama Museum of Art, June–August 1997, Fukuoka Art Museum, September–October, Nagoya City Art Museum, October–December 1997 (48).
1997
Joseph Mallord William Turner, Bank Austria Kunstforum, Vienna, March–June 1997(56).
2002
Turner at Petworth, Petworth House, Petworth, July–September 2002 (77).
2005
Turner at Petworth, Tate Gallery, London, October 2005–April 2006 (no catalogue).
2007
Hockney on Turner Watercolours, Tate Britain, London, June 2007–February 2008 (no catalogue).
References
1909
A.J. Finberg, A Complete Inventory of the Drawings of the Turner Bequest, London 1909, vol.II, p.744, CCXLIV 2, as ‘Evening: Petworth Park’.
1910
C[harles] Lewis Hind, Turner’s Golden Visions, London and Edinburgh 1910 and 1925, p.133.
1970
Luke Herrmann, Turner: Watercolours Lent by the British Museum, exhibition catalogue, Musée Provisoire d’Art Moderne, Brussels 1970, no.38, pp.9, 48 reproduced.
1974
Martin Butlin, Andrew Wilton and John Gage, Turner 1775–1851, exhibition catalogue, Royal Academy, London 1974, pp.106 under nos.325–329, p.111 no.342, 114 reproduced as ‘Petworth: Sunset across the Park’.
1975
Graham Reynolds, Turner 1775–1851: zhivopis’, risunok, akvarel’, exhibition catalogue, Hermitage Museum, Leningrad 1975, p.13.
1975
Gerald Wilkinson, Turner’s Colour Sketches 1820–34, London 1975, p.52 reproduced.
1975
Ada Polak, ‘Turner på ny’, Kunst Kultur, 58 årgang, 1975, p.221 reproduced.
1976
David Loshak and Andrew Wilton, J.M.W. Turner 1775–1851: Akvareller og Tegninger fra British Museum, exhibition catalogue, Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen 1976, p.55 no.43 reproduced as ‘Petworth: Sunset across the Park’.
1976
Werner Hofmann, Andrew Wilton, Siegmar Hosten and others, William Turner und die Landschaft seiner Zeit, exhibition catalogue, Hamburger Kunsthalle 1976, p.18, no.66 reproduced.
1987
Andrew Wilton, Turner Watercolours in the Clore Gallery, London 1987, p.[105] pl.45.
1989
Martin Butlin, Mollie Luther and Ian Warrell, Turner at Petworth: Painter and Patron, London 1989, pp.76, 122 note 44, 147, 220 pl.70.
1990
Martin Butlin, Mollie Luther and Ian Warrell, Turner: Les Années Egremont: Chefs d’oeuvre inédits, trans. Tamara Préaud, Paris 1990, pl.70.
1991
Ian Warrell, Turner: The Fourth Decade: Watercolours 1820–1830, exhibition catalogue, Tate Gallery, London 1991, pp.13, 63 no.71 reproduced.
1992
Maurice Davies, Turner as Professor: The Artist and Linear Perspective, exhibition catalogue, Tate Gallery, London 1992, pp.93, 94 fig.122, 95.
1997
David B[layney] Brown, Yasuhide Shimbata and Hideko Numata,J.M.W. Turner 1775–1851: A Tate Gallery Collection Exhibition, exhibition catalogue, Yokohama Museum of Art 1997, no.48 reproduced, pp.32, 36.
1997
David Blayney Brown, Klaus Albrecht Schröder, Evelyn Benesch and others, Joseph Mallord William Turner, exhibition catalogue, Bank Austria Kunstforum, Vienna 1997, no.56 reproduced, pp. 21, 34, 122 under no.10, 217, 234 under no .63.
1999
Garry Fabian Miller: Tracing Light, A PhotoWorks In-Site Project, exhibition catalogue, PhotoWorks and National Trust, Petworth [1999], unpaginated reproduced.
2002
Christopher Rowell, Ian Warrell and David Blayney Brown, Turner at Petworth, exhibition catalogue, Petworth House, Petworth 2002, pp.179, 180 fig.175, 195 under no.77.
2007
David Blayney Brown, Turner Watercolours, exhibition catalogue, Tate Britain, London 2007, pp.14, 74 reproduced, as ‘Sunset across the Park from the Terrace of Petworth House’, 1827.
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 made numerous colour studies of Petworth Park during his 1827 visit: the present view includes the larger of Petworth’s two lakes on the right, with Tillington Church roughly indicated in the distance. It and a number of other studies in the present grouping capture the sun setting over the park. Turner seems to have used this study, alongside a more topographically detailed pencil sketch (Tate D34102; Turner Bequest CCCXLI 380), to develop a canvas relating to his paintings for the Carved Room at Petworth, Petworth Park: Tillington Church in the Distance (Tate N00559); for more information about the paintings, see the Introduction to this subsection. Details from the present study, including a rich sunset and the line of trees, are present in Turner’s painting. A more highly finished oil with a slightly different viewpoint (Tate T03883; in situ at Petworth House), sees the idea fully developed into a scene bathed in a warm golden light, also drawing on a sketch in the Petworth sketchbook (Tate D22657–D22658; Turner Bequest CCXLIII 77a–78).
Verso:
The verso could not be inspected at the time of cataloguing.
Elizabeth Jacklin
December 2018
How to cite
Elizabeth Jacklin, ‘Sunset across the Park from the Terrace of Petworth House 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