Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881, British, active in Italy (1837–39)
Title:
Ancient Trees, Lullingstone Park
Date:
1828
Materials & Techniques:
Graphite on thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 10 1/2 x 14 5/8 inches (26.7 x 37.1 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed on verso in graphite, lower left: "In Lullingston Park Shoreham Kent. One of the Best Studies of this Period | A. H. P | 146 3 1/2 w[..ll]"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1977.14.308
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
landscape | forest | trees
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
The Critique of Reason : Romantic Art, 1760–1860 (Yale University Art Gallery, 2015-03-06 - 2015-07-26)Paul Mellon's Legacy : A Passion for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-04-18 - 2007-07-29)Presences of Nature - British Landscape 1780-1830 (Yale Center for British Art, 1982-10-20 - 1983-02-27)English Landscape (Paul Mellon Collection) 1630-1850 (Yale Center for British Art, 1977-04-19 - 1977-07-17)
Publications:
Louis Hawes, Presences of Nature : British Landscape, 1780-1830, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1982, pp. 75, 176-177, no. IV.34, pl. 62, ND1354.4 H38 (YCBA)Paul Mellon's Legacy : a passion for British art [large print labels], , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2007, v. 2, N5220 M552 P381 2007 OVERSIZE (YCBA)Christiana Payne, Silent Witnesses : Trees in British Art, 1760-1870, Sansom & Co., Bristol, 2017, p. 84, fig. 38, NX650.T74 P39 2017 (YCBA)William Vaughan, Samuel Palmer : shadows on the wall, The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, New Haven, 2015, pp. 162, 164, fig. 137, NJ18.P19 V37 2015 OVERSIZE (YCBA)