Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881, British, active in Italy (1837–39)
Title:
Conway Castle
Date:
1836
Materials & Techniques:
Graphite, watercolor, gouache and pen and brown ink on medium, smooth, brown wove paper on heavy card
Dimensions:
Sheet: 12 3/4 x 17 7/8 inches (32.4 x 45.4 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, center left: "Ivy no line to repeat [...] | thick wall"; lower left: "NB. Central mass width of same grad_ [...] a little dark"; in pen and brown ink, lower right: "Conway Castle from near the Old Llanrwst Road-North Wales."
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
United Kingdom | Conway | Conwy | Aberconwy and Colwyn | Cymru | Wales | Europe | Conwy Castle
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
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)Fairest Isle - The Appreciation of British Scenery 1750-1850 (Yale Center for British Art, 1989-04-12 - 1989-06-25)
Publications:
Duncan Robinson, Fairest isle : the appreciation of British scenery, 1750-1850, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1989, p. 11, no. 74, ND1354.4 F35 (YCBA)William Vaughan, Samuel Palmer : shadows on the wall, The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, New Haven, 2015, pp. 237-38, 239, fig. 208, NJ18.P19 V37 2015 OVERSIZE (YCBA)