Catalogue of drawings & etchings by Sam Palmer, the property of A.H. Palmer: pictures, drawings and etchings by William Blake the property of Mrs. John Richmond, also, etchings by Rembrandt and other artists the property of a gentleman, (London: Christie, Manson & Woods, 1929).
","citation":"Catalogue of drawings & etchings by Sam Palmer, the property of A.H. Palmer: pictures, drawings and etchings by William Blake the property of Mrs. John Richmond, also, etchings by Rembrandt and other artists the property of a gentleman, (London: Christie, Manson & Woods, 1929).
, no. 34","date":1929,"id":5410,"uri":"https://search.worldcat.org/title/844212618"}],"nowebuse":"False","periods":[],"department":"Prints and Drawings","attribute_groups":[{"id":2199321,"term":"European Art","termtype":"Collecting Area"},{"id":2199327,"term":"Prints and Drawings","termtype":"Collecting Area"}],"daterange":"A.D. 1800-1850","dateend":1847,"depicted":[],"titles":[{"title":"Study of Barley, Oats, and Wheat","titletype":"Published","displayorder":1}],"hasimage":"true","creditlinerepro":null,"objectnumber":"x1947-186","inscribed":"in graphite: [notations throughout]","texts":[{"texttype":"Online","textpurpose":"Provenance","textentryhtml":"By descent to Alfred Herbert Palmer (1853-1932); [Christie's London, 4 March, 1929 (lot 43)]; purchased by Mark Oliver, i.e. [Savile Gallery (for 10.10.-)](1); [Durlacher Bros., New York], by 1938; purchased by Frank Jewett Mather Jr. (1868–1953); gifted to Princeton University Art Museum, 1947.
(1) purchaser and sale price according to annotated catalogue at INHA, NUM CV13433_19290304\n[https://bibliotheque-numerique.inha.fr/idurl/1/67996]
","remarks":"Provenance was initially online as \"A.H. Palmer; Mark Oliver; Durlacher.\" Cleaned up and expanded by Jun.\r\n1926 AH Palmer cat link: https://archive.org/details/dli.ministry.01203/page/43/mode/2up?\r\n1929 Christie's cat link: https://bibliotheque-numerique.inha.fr/idurl/1/67996\r\n1949 Durlacher cat link: https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uiug.30112115504133?urlappend=%3Bseq=6%3Bownerid=13510798903945306-10"},{"texttype":"Online","textpurpose":"Gallery Label","textentryhtml":"\r\nA key figure in the development of Victorian British landscape painting, Palmer combined a close observation of nature with his sympathy for pastoral country life in idyllic rustic views painted at the height of the Industrial Revolution in England. In this precisely rendered study of humble stalks of grain, Palmer recalls the crops that had provided the traditional foundations of British agriculture. Palmer’s watercolor drawings made directly from nature are often filled with written notations where the artist records subtle nuances of color, light, and time of day. ","remarks":"K4-6 Rotation August 2016"},{"texttype":"Online","textpurpose":"Gallery Label","textentryhtml":"\n\tPalmer’s plant study and Strang’s sketchbook show the ways artists used drawing to work through ideas on the page, often as studies that would be turned into prints or incorporated into paintings. Strang’s sketchbook is filled with sketches drawn from nude models, after other artist’s prints, from the landscape, and from his imagination. On this page, two landscapes float above a candid sketch of a woman who seems to have fallen asleep in\n\t\n\ther chair, layered overtop an ink sketch of a figure’s head.\n
\n\n\tWhile Strang’s drawings are quick and sketchy, Palmer’s careful studies are annotated with detailed notes and worked up in watercolor. The luminous quality of Palmer’s drawing, resulting from the application of golden-yellow highlights on a gray-green paper, reflects an interest in lighting effects borne out by his inscriptions: “Looking against sunset light the transparent husk of the ear forms a thin golden halo round it—the ears being darks off the transparent tone of the straw.”\n
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