drawing;
sketch-book
- Museum number
- 1964,1104.1.38
- Description
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Hilly and wooded landscape with domed hill in centre distance, in left foreground part of a cottage and two reclining and three seated figures, moon waning, shows earth-light, formerly in a sketchbook of 77 sketches bound originally in sheepskin. c.1824
Pen and brown ink
Verso: Landscape with cliffs in distance and barn in right foreground. c.1824
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
- Study on recto is a more elaborate version of landscape on leaf 48.
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 and W. Vaughan, E.E. Barker, and C. Harrison, 'Samuel Palmer, Vision and Landscape' (London, BM, 2005)
Reproduced and discussed in R. Hoozee, ed., 'British Vision: Observation and Imagination in British Art, 1750-1950', exh. cat., Gent, Museum Voor Schone Kunsten, 2007-2008, cat. 252
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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1985, BM, British Landscape Watercolours 1600-1860, no.173
2007-2008 Oct-Jan, Gent, Museum Voor Schone Kunsten, 'British Vision:...'
- Acquisition date
- 1964
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1964,1104.1.38