drawing;
sketch-book
- Museum number
- 1964,1104.1.12
- Description
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A large animal, drawing formerly in a sketchbook of 77 sketches bound originally in sheepskin; animal, like a cross between a donkey and camel, head in profile, in a landscape. c.1824
Pen and brown ink, over graphite, touched with watercolour
Verso: Pastoral idyll, landscape with cottage at r, outside which a figure sits in the garden, and another person looks out of a window to a figure standing and holding a staff outside, a large moon behind, another cottage at left, a hill and church
Pen and brown ink
- Production date
- 1824 (sketchbook begun)
- Dimensions
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Height: 116 millimetres
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Width: 189 millimetres (average)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- From sketchbook 1964,1104.1.1-77. The cover is kept in c.205.
See 1964,1104.1(1) for curatorial comment on the sketchbook as a whole
Lit: See Stainton 1985; R. Lister no. 43; M. Butlin 1962 facsimile; W. Vaughan, E.E. Barker, and C. Harrison, 'Samuel Palmer, Vision and Landscape' (London, BM, 2005)
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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1981 May-Aug, Castle Museum, Notts, 'English Watercolours'
1985, BM, British Landscape Watercolours 1600-1860, no.173
- Acquisition date
- 1964
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1964,1104.1.12