Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881, British, active in Italy (1837–39)
Title:
The Weald of Kent
Date:
between 1833 and 1834
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor and gouache on moderately thick, rough, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 7 3/8 x 10 5/8 inches (18.7 x 27 cm)
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1981.25.2654
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
trees | autumn | hedges | landscape | branches | leaves (plant materials) | fields
Associated Places:
Kent | Europe | England | United Kingdom
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
An American's Passion for British Art - Paul Mellon's Legacy (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-04-18 - 2007-07-29)

An American's Passion for British Art - Paul Mellon's Legacy (Royal Academy of Arts, 2007-10-20 - 2008-01-27)

Paul Mellon's Legacy : A Passion for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-04-18 - 2007-07-29)

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)

English Landscape (Paul Mellon Collection) 1630-1850 (Yale Center for British Art, 1977-04-19 - 1977-07-17)
Publications:
John Baskett, Paul Mellon's Legacy: a Passion for British Art: Masterpieces from the Yale Center for British Art, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2007, pp. 295-96, no. 113, pl. 113, N5220 M552 P38 2007 OVERSIZE (YCBA)

Jonathan Mayne, Taste in Water-Colour, Apollo, v. 77, no. 14, April 1963, pp. 290, 292, fig. 3, N1 A54 + (YCBA) Second copy available in Vertical File : V1168

Painting in England 1700-1850 : collection of Mr. & Mrs. Paul Mellon : Exhibition at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, , 1,2, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA, 1963, intro. p. 12, p. 104, no. 189, ND466 V57 v.1-2 (YCBA)

Paul Mellon's Legacy : a passion for British art [large print labels], , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2007, v. 2, no. 113, N5220 M552 P381 2007 OVERSIZE (YCBA)

Sotheby's sale catalogue : Catalogue of fine paintings and drawings of the English school : 30 November 1960, Sotheby's, London, November 30, 1960, p. 17 and opposite p. 17, lot 63, Auction catalogues (YCBA)

William Vaughan, Samuel Palmer : shadows on the wall, The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, New Haven, 2015, pp, 136, 137, 211, fig. 113, NJ18.P19 V37 2015 OVERSIZE (YCBA)

William Vaughan, Samuel Palmer, 1805-1881 : vision and landscape, , British Museum Press, London, 2005, p. 155, no. 83, fig. 83, Nj18 P19 V38 2005 OVERSIZE (YCBA)
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:19905