SAMUEL PALMER, R.W.S. (1805-1881)
SAMUEL PALMER, R.W.S. (1805-1881)
SAMUEL PALMER, R.W.S. (1805-1881)
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SAMUEL PALMER, R.W.S. (1805-1881)

Church with a Bridge

Details
SAMUEL PALMER, R.W.S. (1805-1881)
Church with a Bridge
with inscription on the old mount in brown ink, ‘S. Palmer/From an old Scrap Book of 1845.’ (according to the previous cataloguing)
pencil, brown and grey wash, heightened with touches of white on paper
5 x 2 5⁄8 in. (12.8 x 6.7 cm.)
Provenance
with Albany Gallery, London, Fifty Watercolour Drawings 1750-1850, 1986, no. 40.
with Lott and Gerrish, Marlborough, where purchased for the present collection.
Literature
R. Lister, Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of Samuel Palmer, Cambridge, 1988, p. 76, no. 121.

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Lot Essay

The present rapidly handled sketch relates to a more detailed drawing showing the church across the water, framed by arching trees forming almost a gothic arch and with a bridge (now Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, Lister no. 122). A similar church with its soaring steeple, as if pointing to heaven can be found in other works including Coming from Evening Church, now in the Tate Gallery, London and A Country Road Leading towards a Church, in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, although both lack the body of water in the present watercolour.

This work is characteristic of the work being produced by Palmer during his Shoreham Period in c. 1830, with bold a combination of sweeping and staccato brushstrokes.

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