Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881, British, active in Italy (1837–39)
Title:
The Wayside Smithy
Date:
undated
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor and graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 9 7/8 x 7 3/8 inches (25.1 x 18.7 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, lower left: "see back"; lower right in graphite: "For Capt Martin Hardie";on verso in graphite, upper left: "[...] Illustrating one of S. Palmer's favorite themes- Moonlight & | artificial light See Christmas Etching-"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B2001.2.1087
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
horses (animals) | landscape | signboard | genre subject | smithy | trees | village | blacksmith | laborers
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)
Publications:
Samuel Palmer, Tate Publishing, London, p. 49, fig. 41, NJ18.P19 W55 2005 (YCBA)William Vaughan, Samuel Palmer : shadows on the wall, The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, New Haven, 2015, p. 225, fig. 194, NJ18.P19 V37 2015 OVERSIZE (YCBA)