Ink, watercolour and bodycolour on paper
Petworth House: Studies of Interiors and Figures
Sussex, West
Sussex - non-specific
Tate Collection
Works with images
Joseph Mallord William Turner
Turner Bequest
Collection
Turner owned by Tate
Catalogued Turner works on paper
<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/joseph-mallord-william-turner-558" aria-label="More by Joseph Mallord William Turner" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Joseph Mallord William Turner</a>
Petworth House North Gallery at Night with Figures Contemplating Flaxmans Statue St Michael Overcoming Satan
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
actions: expressive
adults
architecture
art and craft
art appreciation
astronomy
domestic
England
England, South East
England, Southern
features
figure
fine art and design, named works
fine arts and music
Flaxman, John, sculpture, ‘St Michael Overcoming Satan’
gallery
interiors
leisure and pastimes
moonlight
night
objects
painting
people
Petworth, Petworth House
places
pointing
Sussex - non-specific
Sussex, West
times of the day
UK cities, towns and villages
UK counties
UK countries and regions
window
<p>A shaft of moonlight illuminates a sculpture by John Flaxman. The sculpture had only been completed in 1826, the year before Turner made this atmospheric study. The North Gallery seen here was itself a new addition to Petworth, built to house Lord Egremont’s growing collection of contemporary British art.</p><p><em>Gallery label, October 2023</em></p>
paper unique ink watercolour bodycolour
4 July 2002 – 29 September 2002
2002-09-29
4 July 2002 – 29 September 2002
2002-09-29
2002-07-04
National Trust: Petworth House (Petworth, UK)
2002-07-04
Turner at Petworth
Loan-out
8 June 2007 – 3 February 2008
2008-02-03
8 June 2007 – 3 February 2008
2008-02-03
2007-06-08
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2007-06-08
Home and Abroad 1815-30
Collection based display
21 March 2018 – 10 January 2021
2021-01-10
21 March 2018 – 26 August 2018
2018-08-26
2018-03-21
Chiostro del Bramante (Rome, Italy)
http://www.chiostrodelbramante.it/
24 September 2018 – 17 February 2019
2019-02-17
2018-09-24
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
26 March 2019 – 28 July 2019
2019-07-28
2019-03-26
Centro Cultural Palacio la Moneda (Santiago, Chile)
1 October 2019 – 28 February 2020
2020-02-28
2019-10-01
Mystic Seaport Museum (Mystic, USA)
16 March 2020 – 10 January 2021
2021-01-10
2020-03-16
Musée Jacquemart-André (Paris, France)
2018-03-21
Turner Watercolours
Tate partnerships & programmes
13 March 2023
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2023-03-13
Gallery 102
Collection based display
Petworth House: The North Gallery at Night, with Figures Contemplating Flaxman’s Statue, ‘St Michael Overcoming Satan’
support: 141 × 192 mm
Accepted by the nation as part of the <a href="/search?gid=999999781" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">Turner Bequest</a> 1856
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<p>A shaft of moonlight illuminates a sculpture by John Flaxman. The sculpture had only been completed in 1826, the year before Turner made this atmospheric study. The North Gallery seen here was itself a new addition to Petworth, built to house Lord Egremont’s growing collection of contemporary British art.</p>
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actions: expressive adults architecture art and craft art appreciation astronomy domestic England England, South East England, Southern features figure fine art and design, named works fine arts and music Flaxman, John, sculpture, ‘St Michael Overcoming Satan’ gallery interiors leisure and pastimes moonlight night objects painting people Petworth, Petworth House places pointing Sussex - non-specific Sussex, West times of the day UK cities, towns and villages UK counties UK countries and regions window
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