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Lot Essay
Between 1848 and 1858 Palmer visited Cornwall and Devon four times producing spontaneous works, such as the present drawing and more highly finished watercolours. The present drawing shows the influence of John Linnell, his father in law who encouraged him to study from nature.
The present sketch appears to have come from the same sketchbook as various sheets now in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London and the Yale Center for British Art, New Haven. All of the studies are from the same stretch of coast and were probably made during a visit in 1858, probably during the late summer. There is also a more finished drawing of the same view in the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard inscribed 'Grower Rock and Short Island from Petty Point', probably a mistranscription that should be read as Growar Island and Penally Point.
The present sketch appears to have come from the same sketchbook as various sheets now in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London and the Yale Center for British Art, New Haven. All of the studies are from the same stretch of coast and were probably made during a visit in 1858, probably during the late summer. There is also a more finished drawing of the same view in the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard inscribed 'Grower Rock and Short Island from Petty Point', probably a mistranscription that should be read as Growar Island and Penally Point.