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View of Box Hill, Surrey (recto)

Maker

(artist)
1805-1881

Title

Date of Production

1848

Medium

black chalk, watercolour, bodycolour and graphite (recto), black chalk (verso) on wove paper

Dimensions

Height: 26.7 cm
Width: 37.5 cm

Accession Number

D.2007.DS.30

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

Label Text

From his earliest experiences in Shoreham, his Kentish ‘valley of vision’, Samuel Palmer was attracted by the profile of woody hills and overlapping slopes, such as those of the North Downs seen in this naturalistic view. The watercolour combines fine detail with more freely handled wash and gouache.

It is a preliminary study for a highly finished exhibition watercolour, Landscape with a Woman driving Sheep (Victorian and Albert Museum, London) – an idyllic scene that anticipates the pastoral landscapes of Palmer’s final years.

Notes

There are two related drawings, one in the Fondation Custodia (2018-S.16), formerly in the collection of Sir John and Lady Witt, and the other in the V&A (P25-1919).

Provenance

William Fothergill Robinson; The Fine Art Society; Thomas Agnew & Sons (London); purchased there by A.A. Miller, 1952; by descent to his wife; Miss Dorothy Scharf, London (1942-2004); Scharf Bequest 2007

Exhibition History

Life, Legend, Landscape - Victorian Drawings and Watercolours, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 17/02/2011-15/05/2011

British Watercolours from the Scharf Bequest, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 15/10/2008-01/01/2009

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

79th Annual Watercolour Exhibition, Thomas Agnew & Sons, London, 1952

Winter Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1893 ...Less

Literature

Life, Legend, Landscape - Victorian Drawings and Watercolours, The Courtauld Gallery, 2011
cat. no. 23
ill. on p. 101

Lister, Raymond, Catalogue Raisonne of the Works of Samuel Palmer, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press 1988
no. 435
ill. on p. 157

Lister, Raymond, Samuel Palmer: his life and art, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1987
p. 159
ill. on p. 160

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: Verso: lower centre edge, graphite, hard to read: "x Jnp 2nd [2 illegible words] Side w x ch".

Collector's mark: none.

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