The broken bridge

Details

Samuel Palmer, R.W.S. (1805-1881)
The broken bridge
signed 'S. Palmer' (lower left)
pencil and watercolour, heightened with bodycolour, with gum arabic and with scratching out
15 5/8 x 19 5/8 in. (39.7 x 49.8 cm.)

Provenance

with Leger Galleries, London.
with Spink-Leger, London.

Literature

R. Lister, Catalogue Raisonné of the works of Samuel Palmer, London, 1988, p. 154, no. 419.

Exhibited

London, Old Water-colour Society, 1847, no. 148.

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Please note additional provenance for this lot should read:
Anon. sale; Christie's, London, 20 October 1970, lot 137.

Exhibited:
London, Leger Galleries, 24 June-24 July 1992, no. 12.

Lot Essay

The Broken Bridge exemplifies the larger watercolours that Palmer was producing during the second half of the 1840s. It has been suggested that the figure of the woman with a pitcher is reminiscent of that which appears in the later etching by Palmer The Early Ploughman of 1861.

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