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In a Shoreham Garden
Samuel Palmer, born 1805 - died 1881 - Enlarge image
In a Shoreham Garden
- Object:
Watercolour
- Place of origin:
Shoreham (probably, painted)
- Date:
ca.1830 (painted)
- Artist/Maker:
Samuel Palmer, born 1805 - died 1881 (artist)
- Materials and Techniques:
Watercolour
- Museum number:
P.32-1926
- Gallery location:
Prints & Drawings Study Room, level H, case SF, shelf 22
Samuel Palmer (1805-1881) taught himself to paint. He greatly admired the work of the artist and poet William Blake (1757-1827). He especially admired Blake’s visionary approach and his lack of respect for conventional watercolour techniques.
This watercolour has a magical, powerful and dreamlike quality. Palmer painted it during his ‘Shoreham Period’. He stayed in Shoreham, a village in the English county of Kent, from 1826 until about 1834.
