Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881, British, active in Italy (1837–39)
Title:
The Timber Wain
Date:
between 1833 and 1834
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor and gouache with pen and black ink on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 5 1/16 x 6 5/16 inches (12.9 x 16 cm)
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B2001.2.1084
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
laborers | pastoral | fields (agricultural land) | wagon | figures | Rustic | genre subject | oxen | landscape | trees | trunk | timber | country (rural landscape)
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Painting Networks - Romantic and Victorian Watercolors (Chazen Museum of Art, 2012-09-22 - 2012-12-02)

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 Drawings and Watercolors from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon (Yale University Art Gallery, 1965-04-15 - 1965-06-20)
Publications:
A loan exhibition of English drawings and watercolours from the collection of Mr and Mrs Paul Mellon of Upperville, Virginia, P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., London, 1964, cat. no. 17, N5247.M385 L62 (YCBA)

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, p. 105, no. 192, ND466 V57 v.1-2 (YCBA)

William Vaughan, Samuel Palmer : shadows on the wall, The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, New Haven, 2015, pp. 202, 211, figs. 173 and 180, NJ18.P19 V37 2015 OVERSIZE (YCBA)

Yale University Art Gallery, English drawings and watercolors, from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, April 15 - June 20, 1965 , New Haven, 1965, cat. no. 17, NC228 Y34 (YCBA)
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:46383