Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881, British, active in Italy (1837–39)
Title:
Old Cedar Tree in Botanic Garden, Chelsea
Date:
1854
Materials & Techniques:
Black chalk and graphite on thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 10 1/2 × 14 1/2 inches (26.7 × 36.8 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed on verso in graphite, upper left: "An Old Cedar in Botanic Garden Chelsea | drawn as a lesson to Mr. Aston afterw's, member of Institute 1854 | C.R. Aston, 1832-1908. | MH."; in red chalk, lower left: "256"; in pen and blue ink, lower left: "S. Palmer | Cedar in Botanic | Gdns Chelsea | 1854"; in graphite, lower center; "Martin Hardie"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1977.14.5932
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
tree | cedar | landscape
Associated Places:
Europe | England | Chelsea | United Kingdom | Chelsea Physic Garden | London
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Connections (Yale Center for British Art, 2011-05-26 - 2011-09-11)Samuel Palmer 1805-1881 Vision and Landscape (British Museum, 2005-10-21 - 2006-01-22)Samuel Palmer 1805-1881 Vision and Landscape (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2006-03-07 - 2006-05-28)Samuel Palmer and "The Ancients" (The Fitzwilliam Museum, 1984-10-09 - 1984-12-16)
Publications:
Raymond Lister, Samuel Palmer and " the Ancients ", Cambridge University Press, Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York, 1984, p. 37, cat. no. 53, NJ18 P19 L565 (YCBA)William Vaughan, Samuel Palmer : shadows on the wall, The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, New Haven, 2015, pp. 288-89, fig. 245, NJ18.P19 V37 2015 OVERSIZE (YCBA)