The Towered City

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Artist/Maker	Palmer, Samuel (artist)
Place of origin	England (made)

View across a river, with an arched bridge, to a city featuring buildings with towers. There is a tree in the foreground to the left of the image and a crescent moon in the centre of the sky. With pencil studies and notes by the Artist on the scheme of light and shade.

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Category	Paintings
Object type	Watercolour
Titles	The Towered City (popular title) The Haunted Stream (popular title)
Materials and techniques	Sepia wash with white body colour on card Sepia Wash Body Colour Card Painting
Brief description	'The Towered City', View across a river, with an arched bridge, to a city featuring buildings with towers. Water-colour by Samuel Palmer, ca.1868.
Physical description	View across a river, with an arched bridge, to a city featuring buildings with towers. There is a tree in the foreground to the left of the image and a crescent moon in the centre of the sky. With pencil studies and notes by the Artist on the scheme of light and shade.
Dimensions	Height: 26cm Width: 42.3cm
Marks and inscriptions	Pencil studies and notes by the Artist on the scheme of light and shade.
Credit line	Presented by A. H. Palmer, Esq.
Object history	Previously known as 'The Haunted Stream'(?).
Subjects depicted	Streams Cities Bridge Towers Trees
Bibliographic references	Vaughan, William, Barker, Elizabeth E., Harrison, Colin, et al. Samuel Palmer 1805- 1881 : Vision and Landscape. London : British Museum Press 2005 no. 149 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.153
Collection	Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number	E.1318-1925

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Record created	August 3, 2006
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O126790/the-towered-city-watercolour-palmer-samuel/

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