Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881, British, active in Italy (1837–39)
Title:
Underriver Hills, near Sevenoaks, Kent, from the Grounds of J. Herries, Esq.
Date:
ca. 1840
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor, gouache, pen and black ink, and graphite on thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 9 5/8 x 14 1/16 inches (24.4 x 35.7 cm)
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1977.14.4646
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
landscape | grounds | hills
Associated Places:
Europe | England | Sevenoaks | Kent | United Kingdom
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Great British Watercolors from the Paul Mellon Collection at the Yale Center for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2008-06-09 - 2008-08-17)Great British Watercolors from the Paul Mellon Collection at the Yale Center for British Art (The State Hermitage Museum, 2007-10-23 - 2008-01-13)Great British Watercolors from the Paul Mellon Collection at the Yale Center for British Art (Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 2007-07-11 - 2007-09-30)English Landscape (Paul Mellon Collection) 1630-1850 (Yale Center for British Art, 1977-04-19 - 1977-07-17)
Publications:
Christopher White, English landscape, 1630-1850, drawings, prints & books from the Paul Mellon Collection , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1977, p. 124, no. 224, pl. CLXXVIII, NC228 W45 OVERSIZE (YCBA)Yale Center for British Art, Great British watercolors : from the Paul Mellon Collection, Yale University Press, New Haven, 2007, pp. 180-81, no. 79, ND1928 .Y35 2007 (LC)+ Oversize (YCBA)
Gallery Label:
After his marriage in 1837 Palmer felt new pressure to make a living from his art. He relied on teaching for income while tempering his visionary approach to landscape in order to make exhibition watercolors that would find buyers. In August 1840 he made a trip to Kent, the locus of his earlier mystical landscape works. At Underriver he sketched this view, dutifully recording the rolling countryside with greater fidelity to nature. Gallery label for Great British Watercolors from the Paul Mellon Collection at the Yale Center for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2008-06-09 - 2008-08-17)