Drawing
ca.1824 (drawn)
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Samuel Palmer was one of the most unconventional and experimental draughtsman of his generation. Drawings and inscriptions in a sketchbook he began in the summer of 1824 at the age of 19 document his intense, visionary approach to nature as he walked in the fields and woods of south east London, near to where he was born.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Graphite, ink and water-colour |
| Brief description | Leaf 7 (pages 13 and 14) from a sketchbook of drawings started in 1824. Sketches in graphite, ink and water-colour. Recto: Landscapes with church spires. Verso: Fields and hedges with text. By Samuel Palmer, Great Britain, ca.1824. |
| Physical description | Leaf 7 (pages 13 and 14) from a sketchbook by Samuel Palmer. Recto: Landscapes with church spires. Two main drawings of the same scene of a church spire seen from behind rolling farmland landscape, with fields of corn, giving a rippled effect, which is mentioned in his annotation below. A smaller landscape with a tree is in the bottom-left of the sheet, with a larger tree in the top-right. Annotated with notes about the drawings. Verso: Fields and hedges with text. Featuring a ploughed field on a hillock, with a hedgerow boundary at the top of the sheet and a panel of handwritten text below. |
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| Credit line | Given by Mr. A. H. Palmer |
| Object history | Formerly from a sketchbook of drawings started in 1824. |
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| Summary | Samuel Palmer was one of the most unconventional and experimental draughtsman of his generation. Drawings and inscriptions in a sketchbook he began in the summer of 1824 at the age of 19 document his intense, visionary approach to nature as he walked in the fields and woods of south east London, near to where he was born. |
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| Accession number | E.3513-1928 |
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| Record created | June 30, 2009 |
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