Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881, British, active in Italy (1837–39)
Title:
Sketch from Nature in Sion Park
Date:
1819
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on card
Dimensions:
7 x 8 7/8 inches (17.8 x 22.5 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in ink on the verso in the hand of the artist: "Sketch from nature in Sion Park | the seat of his grace the Duke of | Northumberland"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1981.25.497
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
landscape | cane | fence | woods | farming | wind | shepherd | cows | livestock
Associated Places:
London | Greater London | Syon Park | England | United Kingdom
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)

Gentle, Rural and Sublime - English Landscape Paintings and Watercolors, 1750-1850 (Denver Art Museum, 1993-12-11 - 1994-02-06)
Publications:
Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 176-177, N590.2 .A83 (YCBA)

Samuel Palmer, Tate Publishing, London, p. 9, fig. 1, 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, pp. 40, 41, 44, 151, fig 25, NJ18.P19 V37 2015 OVERSIZE (YCBA)
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:981