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Mountain pastures

Maker

(artist)
1805-1881

Title

Mountain pastures

Date of Production

1844

Medium

black chalk, pen and brown ink, watercolour with some added gum arabic (now crazed in areas) and bodycolour with scratching out on wove paper, inlaid into a historic mount; the sky now turned brown but original blue colour can be seen at the edges

Dimensions

Height: 18.4 cm
Width: 40.4 cm

Accession Number

D.2007.DS.29

Mode of Acquisition

Dorothy Scharf, bequest, 2007 (March)

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords


pastures




Provenance

Miss H. Ritchie; Talbot Wilson, until 3 September 1984; Leger Galleries (London), as 'Returning from the Pastures', July 1985; Leger Galleries (London) as 'Mountain Pastures', exh. 24 June - 24 July 1992; Miss Dorothy Scharf, London (1942-2004); Scharf Bequest 2007

Exhibition History

Samuel Palmer Exhibition, Leger Galleries, London, 24/06/1992-24/07/1992

Literature

Lister, Raymond, Catalogue Raisonne of the Works of Samuel Palmer, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press 1988
no. 387
ill. on p. 143

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: Recto, lower left, cut off by edge: "[...]L KENT" (probably "J WHATMAN TURKEY MILL KENT".

Inscription: Recto: lower right corner, brown ink, signed and dated: "S. PALMER / 1844". Verso: lower centre, graphite: "3134"; lower right, graphite: "11". Mount (historic), Recto: lower centre margin, red ink over graphite: "SAMUEL PALMER, R.W.S. 1844 / (1805-1881)".

Collector's mark: none.

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