St Catherine's fair

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Artist/Maker	Palmer, Samuel (artist)
Place of origin	Guildford (painted)

Three sketches on one sheet of the fair by St. Catherine's Chapel, near Guildford, Surrey and a slight sketch of a tent. On the verso are slight sketches of a tower on a hill and the side of a cliff.

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Categories	Drawings Entertainment & Leisure
Object type	Watercolour drawing
Title	St Catherine's fair (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques	Pencil and watercolour drawings on paper Pencil Watercolour Paper Drawing
Brief description	Samuel Palmer. Three sketches on one sheet of a fair near Guildford, Surrey. 1844.
Physical description	Three sketches on one sheet of the fair by St. Catherine's Chapel, near Guildford, Surrey and a slight sketch of a tent. On the verso are slight sketches of a tower on a hill and the side of a cliff.
Dimensions	Size of sheet height: 19.1cm Size of sheet width: 27.6cm Taken from the dimensions given in the Victoria and Albert Museum Catalogue of the Prints, Drawings, Paintings & Photographs Collections and converted from inches to centimetres.
Style	English Romantic
Marks and inscriptions	'Guildford 1844' (Dated.) 'St Catherines far (sic) St C's Chapel near Guildford Surrey Fair on St Catherines HIll near Guildford October 2 & 3 When the wind blew strongly it discovered the ribbing of the booths. (Inscribed.) 'By Samuel Palmer. From A.H. Palmer's collection.' (Inscribed on the mount in a later hand.)
Object history	This drawing was formerly in the collection of Sir Frank Short, R.A., P.R.E., R.I.
Subjects depicted	Fairs Chapels Towers Tents Cliffs
Place depicted	Guildford
Bibliographic reference	Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings Accessions 1953 London: HMSO, 1963
Collection	Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number	E.455-1953

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Record created	June 30, 2009
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O590967/st-catherines-fair-watercolour-drawing-palmer-samuel/

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