Artist
Samuel Palmer(British, 1805–1881)British, 1805–1881
CultureBritish
Titles
- On the River Machawy, Wales
DateJuly 5, 1837
Place depictedUnited Kingdom
MediumWatercolor and gouache over black chalk on wove paper, heightened with white chalk on wove paper
DimensionsSheet: 11 5/8 × 9 in. (29.5 × 22.9 cm)
Credit LineThe Stuart Collection, museum purchase funded by Francita Stuart Koelsch Ulmer in memory of Virginia Lee Cameron and in honor of Sarah Powell
Object number2017.15
Non exposé
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Department
Prints and DrawingsSpecial Collections
Object Type
Exhibition History16th Exhibition of Watercolours and Drawings: English and Continental Drawings, John Manning, London, November 1961, cat. 47, illus. (exh. cat. Brereton Printing Works, Foundry Press, Bedford).
Samuel Palmer, John Linnell: The Town Hall, Castlefield Road, Reigate, Hieatt, Reigate, UK, 1963, cat. 10.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Recto: Dated in graphite, left bottom edge: 5 July 1837
Recto: Inscribed in graphite, right top edge: 65
Recto: Inscribed in ink, right bottom edge: Machawy abt. a mile below / Craig pwl du - e n.r with its confluence with / the Wye, Radnors. 5 July 1837
Recto: Inscribed in graphite, right top edge: 65
Recto: Inscribed in ink, right bottom edge: Machawy abt. a mile below / Craig pwl du - e n.r with its confluence with / the Wye, Radnors. 5 July 1837
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Catalogue raisonnéLister, Raymond. Catalogue Raisonne of the Works of Samuel Palmer, 118, cat. 276. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988.
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