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From the Castle Hotel, Lynton, North Devon

Maker

(artist)
1805-1881

Title

From the Castle Hotel, Lynton, North Devon

Date of Production

(circa) 1834

Medium

graphite, watercolour and bodycolour on wove paper

Dimensions

Height: 23.1 cm
Width: 34.2 cm

Accession Number

D.1967.WS.70

Mode of Acquisition

William Wycliffe Spooner, bequest, 1967

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords





Label Text

Following his visionary phase in the Kentish village of Shoreham, Palmer turned to other types of countryside for inspiration and his work became more naturalistic. Between 1834 and 1859 he paid at least four visits to Devon, for him ‘the loveliest of lands’. In this unfinished watercolour the wooded gorge is described in exquisite detail. Rapid scribbles with a pencil and point of the brush, and inscriptions such as ‘Nightingale’, indicate that Palmer sketched the scene on the spot.

Notes

Included in Lister's 1988 catalogue raisonne of Palmer, where he attributes this to Palmer's first trip to Devon in 1834.

Provenance

Redgrave; Christie's (London), 29 June 1932, lot 118; purchased there by Henry Scipio Reitlinger, Maidenhead (1882-1950); his estate sale, Sotheby's (London), 27 January 1954, lot 179; purchased there by Thomas Agnew & Sons (London); Mrs Frances Louise Evans; purchased from her by Colnaghi (London), 14 December 1956; purchased there by William Wycliffe Spooner, Ilkley (1882-1967), 11 January 1957 (£90); Spooner Bequest 1967

Exhibition History

British Watercolours from the Spooner Collection, Huntington Museum and Art Gallery, Los Angeles, 12/02/2005-15/05/2005

British Watercolours from the Spooner Collection, Huntington Museum of Art, Los Angeles, 12/02/2005-15/05/2005; Wordsworth Trust, Grasmere, 18/07/2005-23/10/2005; Hermitage Rooms, Somerset House, London, 16/11/2005-12/02/2006

The Perfection of England - Artist visitors to Devon, Djanogly Art Museum, Nottingham, 07/10/1995-12/11/1995 ...More

The Perfection of England - Artist visitors to Devon, Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter, 27/06/1995-09/09/1995

The Northern Landscape: Flemish, Dutch and British Drawings from the Courtauld Collections, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 03/09/1986-30/11/1986; The Drawing Center, New York, 08/04/1986-26/07/1986

Samuel Palmer and 'The Ancients', Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, 09/10/1984-16/12/1984

English Landscape Drawings and Watercolours, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 01/06/1979-01/09/1979

Exhibition of Drawings and Watercolours from the Spooner and Witt Collections, Australia, New Zealand, 1976-78

The William Spooner Collection and Bequest, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 1974

English Watercolours: The Spooner Collection and Bequest, Bristol Museum & Art Gallery, Bristol, 11/05/1973-02/06/1973

English Landscape Drawings [catalogue not found], Rye Art Gallery, England, 1971

Masters of the Watercolour - Watercolours from the Spooner
Collection
, Holburne Museum of Art, Bath, 1969

The William Spooner Collection and Bequest, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 01/04/1968-01/07/1968

Samuel Palmer: An Exhibition of Paintings, Drawings and Etchings, Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield, 1961 ...Less

Literature

The Spooner Collection of British Watercolours, Courtauld Institute Galleries; Huntington Library; Wordsworth Trust, 2005-06
cat. no. 76
ill. on p. 225

The Perfection of England: Artist Visitors to Devon c.1750-1870, Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter; Djanogly Art Gallery, University of Nottingham, 1995 Plymouth, University of Plymouth, 1995
no. 52
ill. on p. 84

Lister, Raymond, Catalogue Raisonne of the Works of Samuel Palmer, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press 1988
no. 195 and on p. 5
ill. on p. 99 ...More

The Northern Landscape: Flemish, Dutch and British Drawings from the Courtauld Collections, Courtauld Gallery, London, 1986
cat. no. 97
ill. on p. 219

Samuel Palmer and 'The Ancients', Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, 1984
no. 30

English Landscape Drawings and Watercolours, Courtauld Gallery, London, 1979
cat. no. 66

Exhibition of Drawings and Watercolours from the Spooner and Witt Collections, Australia, New Zealand, 1976 - 1978
cat. no. 50
ill.

The William Spooner Collection and Bequest, Courtauld Gallery, London, 1974
cat. no. 50

English Watercolours: The Spooner Collection and Bequest, City Art Gallery, Bristol, 1973
cat. no. 39

Masters of the Watercolour - Watercolours from the Spooner Collection, Holburne Museum of Art, Bath, 1969
cat. no. 52

The William Spooner Collection and Bequest, Courtauld Gallery, London, 1968
cat. no. 68 ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: Recto: lower left edge, graphite: "From Castle Hotel Linton B.[?] N.Devon." [the 'B' has also been read as a 'D' and a '3']; lower right, graphite: "rather young Trees / but with the dark hollows / under them looking up / -stems-"; lower right corner, grey-brown wash: "Nightingale". Verso: written twice at lower right, graphite: "#20"; lower left edge, graphite, Colnaghi number: "A21913".

Collector's mark: none.

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