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A country road leading towards a church

Watercolour
ca.1828 (painted)
Artist/Maker
Palmer, Samuel (artist)
Place of origin
Shoreham (painted)

A countryside landscape with a path in dense woodland, leading to a church with a spire in the distance. In the foreground a shepherd is resting, his grazing sheep are on the road and bank.


Object details

Category
Paintings
Object type
Watercolour
TitleA country road leading towards a church (popular title)
Materials and techniques
Watercolour
Water-Colour
Painting
Brief description
'A country road leading towards a church'. Water-colour by Samuel Palmer, England, ca.1828.
Physical description
A countryside landscape with a path in dense woodland, leading to a church with a spire in the distance. In the foreground a shepherd is resting, his grazing sheep are on the road and bank.
Dimensions
  • Height: 18.4cm
  • Width: 15.2cm
Marks and inscriptions
'One of numbers done at Shoreham showing the love of vivid contrasts of chiaroscuro.' (The mount inscribed by A. H. Palmer.)
Object history
This drawing was previously in the collections of A. H. Palmer and Sir Frank Short, R.A., P.R.E., R.I., by whom it was lent to the Samuel Palmer Exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum, 1926 (no.82: reproduced on PL.X of the catalogue), and was no. 38 in the exhibition 'Samuel Palmer & His Circle' organised by the Arts Council, 1957. It is no.91 (reproduced as Pl.44) in the catalogue of G Grigson's 'Samuel Palmer. The Visionary Years', London, 1947. Grigson relates it to 'The Magic Apple Tree' in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Subjects depicted
Churches
Woodland
Path
Shepherd
Sheep
Rural Scenes
Bibliographic references
  • Vaughan, William, Barker, Elizabeth E., Harrison, Colin, et al. Samuel Palmer 1805- 1881 : Vision and Landscape. London : British Museum Press 2005 no. 36
  • 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.82
  • Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings Accessions 1953 London: HMSO, 1963
  • Samuel Palmer and his Circle : the Shoreham period, London : Arts Council of Great Britain, 1956 no. 38
  • Fabian Miller, Garry (artist/author) Topp, Gary (author) Garry Fabian Miller: Adore Bristol : Arnolfini, 2023 Published to coincide with the exhbition Garry Fabian Miller: Adore at the Arnolfini Gallery, 18 February to 28 May 2023 pg. 115 The darkroom is now obsolete and its natural mirror - the dark night sky - is being erased by electric light. My work owes as much to night walking as to daylight. At night I feel close to the outer light buried in the earth and the night sky. On moonless nights when the stars are free, this deeper light is intense. When the moon returns with the sun's reflected
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
P.34-1953

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Record createdAugust 3, 2006
Record URL
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