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Hasting to Covert: a Threatening Rain Storm

Watercolour
mid 19th century (painted)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Landscape composition showing drovers driving a single cow, with a dog, through heavy rain, along a hedgerow track. To the left of the foreground is a river and in the field beyond stands a windmill. Threatening heavy rainclouds hang above.


Object details

Category
Object type
TitleHasting to Covert: a Threatening Rain Storm
Materials and techniques
Water-colour
Brief description
'Hasting to Covert: a Threatening Rain Storm'. Landscape composition showing drovers driving a single cow along a hedgerow track. Water-colour by Samuel Palmer, England, mid-19th century.
Physical description
Landscape composition showing drovers driving a single cow, with a dog, through heavy rain, along a hedgerow track. To the left of the foreground is a river and in the field beyond stands a windmill. Threatening heavy rainclouds hang above.
Dimensions
  • Height: 6.12in
  • Width: 8.25in
Measurements taken (and converted into decimal fractions) from: Catalogue of an Exhibition of Drawings, Etchings & Woodcuts by Samuel Palmer and other Disciples of William Blake October 20 - December 31, 1926. London : Published under the authority of the Board of Education, 1926. Publication No. 178 E.I.D.
Marks and inscriptions
'No 1, Hasting to Covert: a threatening rain storm - Samuel Palmer Furze Hill House, Mead Vale, Red Hill Surrey' (Written in Samuel Palmer's hand, on a piece of paper pasted to the backboard.)
Credit line
Presented by Mrs. J. Merrick Head
Subjects depicted
Bibliographic references
  • Catalogue of an exhibition of drawings, etchings & woodcuts by Samuel Palmer and other disciples of William Blake. London, Pub. under the authority of the Board of Education, 1926 no. 130
  • Victoria and Albert Museum, Department of Engraving, Illustration and Design & Department of Paintings, Accessions 1919, London: Printed Under the Authority of His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1921
Collection
Accession number
P.32-1919

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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