Samuel Palmer
On the River Machawy, Wales

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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

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Prints and Drawings

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The Stuart Collection

Object Type

DRAWINGS, PASTELS & WATERCOLORS

ProvenanceGeorge Cumberland (1754–1848), England; [John Manning, London, by 1961]; private collection, England, by 1988; [Sotheby’s, London, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century British Drawings and Watercolors, April 8, 1998, lot 45]; purchased by Bernadette and William M. B. Berger, Denver; [Sotheby’s, New York, Old Master Drawings, January 25, 2017, lot 100]; purchased by MFAH, 2017.
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: Inscribed bottom left in graphite: 5 July 1837
Recto: Inscribed bottom left in graphite: 65
Recto: Inscribed bottom right in ink: on the r. Machawy abt. a mile below / Craig pwl du - e n.r with its confluence with / the Wye, Radnors. 5 July 1837

Recto: [none]
Verso: [inaccessible]

Catalogue raisonnéLister, Raymond. Catalogue Raisonne of the Works of Samuel Palmer, 118, cat. 276. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988.

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