Mountain pastures
Maker
(artist)
1805-1881
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
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
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.
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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