Samuel Palmer
On the River Machawy, Wales

ArtistBritish, 1805–1881
CultureBritish
Titles
  • On the River Machawy, Wales
DateJuly 5, 1837
Place depictedUnited Kingdom
MediumWatercolor and gouache over black chalk, 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
Object number2017.15
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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

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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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