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Drawings and inscriptions in a sketchbook he began in the summer of 1824 at the age of 19 document his intense, visionary approach to nature as he walked in the fields and woods of south east London, near to where he was born. This sketch of tree trunks exemplifies Palmer’s idiosyncratic experimentation with different forms of outline as he tried out ways of drawing natural forms. He has used a range of techniques and pressures with the flexible nib of a quill pen, creating fine vertical strokes, fat circular loops and tiny dots to represent the various textures of bark. ","physicalDescription":"Leaf 47, a sheet from a sketchbook (pages 93 and 94) both sides of which have been drawn on. \r\nDisplayed in mount to show page 94 - a sketch of woodland with a variety of tree trunks; one with a particularly knobbly surface and another in the foreground featuring a large knot. A building and fence are visible in the middle-distance. \r\nOn the verso (page 93) are sketches of a line of shrubs, with the trunks of two spindly trees along the bottom in an opposing format.","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Samuel Palmer","id":"A2333"},"association":{"text":"artist","id":"AAT25103"},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"paper","id":"x30308"},{"text":"ink","id":"AAT15012"}],"techniques":[{"text":"drawing (image-making)","id":"AAT54196"},{"text":"sketching","id":"AAT53576"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Pen and ink on paper","categories":[{"text":"Drawings","id":"THES48966"}],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"PDP","id":"THES48595"},"images":["2011EN0910","2026PM3904","2017JU0491","2018KY0040","2017KA8621"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"CNPA","id":"THES49192"},"free":"","case":"","shelf":"","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"drawings","id":"AAT33973"}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"England","id":"x28826"},"association":{"text":"drawn","id":"x30545"},"note":"probably"}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"ca.1824","earliest":"1819-01-01","latest":"1828-12-31"},"association":{"text":"drawn","id":"x30545"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"Given by Mr. A. 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","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Owens, Susan, <u>The Art of Drawing British Masters and Methods since 1600</u>, V&A Publishing, London, 2013, p. 88, fig. 66"},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"<u>Victoria & Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1928. </u> London: HMSO, 1929"},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Raymond Lister, ‘Catalogue raisonné of the works of Samuel Palmer’, Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1988. ISBN: 9780521344555.\r\n\r\n43. Sketchbook\r\nBegun 1824\r\nBritish Museum, London (1964-11-4-1); single leaves in Victoria and Albert Museum, London [leaves 5, 7, 20, 22, 47].\r\nWatercolour, pencil and pen and ink, on paper. Bound originally in sheep, but now disbound. Size of leaves c.116 x 189 mm.\r\nColl. Samuel Palmer; George Richmond RA; A. H. Palmer, from whom acquired, 1928.\r\nExh: V&A 1926 (50; leaves 2, 5, 11, 13, 16, 20; leaves 11 recto, 9 recto, repr. Cat. Pl. 5); V&A 1978-9 (leaves 5, 7, 22, leaf 22 recto repr. Cat.); Fitzwilliam 1984 (4; leaves 5, 20, 22).\r\nLit: L&L pp. 12-3; Grigson pp. 159-60 (no. 24), repr. Pls. 7, 8 (leaves 5 verso, 47 recto); ‘Palmer’s Valley’ pp. 4-5, repr. Pls. 2-9 (leaves 11 recto, 47 verso, 62 verso, 18 recto, 49 recto, 12 verso, 50 verso, 23 recto); M Butlin, ‘Samuel Palmer’s Sketch-Book, 1824, 1962, with complete reproduction of all surviving leaves; Cecil pp. 29ff, 50, repr. Pls. 16-22 (leaves 19 recto, 26 recto, 33 verso, 26 verso, 31 recto, 21 verso, 86 verso); ‘Etchings’ pp. 21-4; Parris p. 120, repr. Leaf 2 verso, leaf 23 verso, leaf 27 recto; Sellars pp. 15, 16, 19, 30, repr. Pp. 5, 14, 15, 17, 18, 19, 23-6, 29, 143 (leaves 1 recto and verso, 3 recto, 4 recto and verso, 5 recto and verso, 6 recto and verso, 7 recto, 12 recto, 14 recto, 15 recto and verso, 17 recto, 18 recto, 67 recto, 68 recto); ‘Vision Recaptured’ p. 36, repr. Frontispiece and pls 17a, b (leaves 22 recto, 14 recto, 20 recto); Fitzwilliam 1984 Cat. Pp. 3-4, repr. (leaves 5, 20,22); ‘Paintings’, repr. Pls. 4, 5 (leaves 19 recto, 67 verso), with adjacent text; ‘Life’ pp. 13-15, 38, 40-2, repr. P. 21 (leaf 5 recto)\r\nRepr. Peacock pp. 26, 27, 29, 31 (leaves 26 verso, 29 recto, 31 recto, 46 recto); Abley Pls. II, III (leaves 12 recto, 25 verso).\r\n\r\nLeaf 47 recto (93) (V&A 3512-1928). Top half of page: hilly landscape. Lower half, at right angles to upper drawing: two tall trees and (at right) the wall and eaves of a building.\r\n\r\nLeaf 47 verso (94). Group of tree trunks. Beyond, at left, hilly landscape with trees, church spire and other buildings; at right, a precipitous rock.\r\n"}],"production":"","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[{"text":"landscape","id":"AAT15636"},{"text":"hills","id":"AAT8777"},{"text":"trees","id":"AAT132410"}],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[],"partNumbers":["E.3512-1928"],"accessionNumberNum":"3512","accessionNumberPrefix":"E","accessionYear":1928,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":["2019LN9090","2019LP7267","2019LU4081","2019LU2864","2019LX0622"],"recordModificationDate":"2026-07-29","recordCreationDate":"2009-06-30","availableToBook":false}}