Samuel Palmer
On the River Machwy, Wales

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Artist Samuel PalmerBritish, 1805–1881

CultureBritish

Titles

On the River Machwy, Wales

Date1837

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

Object number2017.15

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Department

Prints and Drawings

Object Type

DRAWINGS, PASTELS & WATERCOLORS

ProvenanceGeorge Cumberland (1754-1848), England [1]; John Manning, London (16th Exhibition of Watercolours and Drawings, 1961, Cat. 47; private collection, England, by 1988; [sale, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century British Drawings and Watercolors, London, Sotheby’s, 8 April 1998, lot 45 (sold for $22,063.)]; purchased by Bernadette and William M.B. Berger, Denver, Colorado; [sale, New York, Sotheby’s, January 25, 2017, lot 100]; purchased by MFAH, 2017.

[1] George Cumberland was an English art collector, writer, and poet. He was a lifelong friend and supporter of William Blake and like him was an experimental printmaker and watercolorist.
Exhibition History16th Exhibition of Watercolours and Drawings, 1961, Cat. 47
Samuel Palmer and John Linnell. Reigate: The Town Hall, 1963, Cat. 10.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

Recto: Inscribed in graphite, top right: 65
Recto: Inscribed in graphite, in image, bottom left corner: 5 July 1837 [cursive]
Recto: Inscribed in ink, in image, bottom right corner: on the r. Machawy abt. a mile below / Craig pwl du - e n.r with its confluence with / the Wye, Radnors. 5 July 1837 [cursive]

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Catalogue raisonnéLister 276

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