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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. ","physicalDescription":"Leaf 7 (pages 13 and 14) from a sketchbook by Samuel Palmer. \r\n\r\nRecto: Landscapes with church spires. Two main drawings of the same scene of a church spire seen from behind rolling farmland landscape, with fields of corn, giving a rippled effect, which is mentioned in his annotation below. A smaller landscape with a  tree is in the bottom-left of the sheet, with a larger tree in the top-right. Annotated with notes about the drawings.\r\n\r\nVerso: Fields and hedges with text. 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They were caused thus heaps of reaped corn were laid / in lines across the field - I think Titian felt streaked fields","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"","transliteration":"","type":"","note":""},{"content":"Inscribed in ink on verso: Opposite the cottage was (across a little valley where they were cutting corn) a range of hills you walk / up the sheep bells going all the time through several fields (of different sorts rye, hops, fallow, meadow) of colour, form, & / texture various - then you come to the line of thick wood which runs all along / the summit very close wild and intricate yet such as you would wish / to explore guided by one that knows its mazes to a shaded cottage & garden / of sweet herbs & flowers in the midst where you might forget the wretched / moderns & their spider's webs - & their feasts on empty wind / thistles & dung - its a dog refusing plum pudding would lap up its / vomit","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"","transliteration":"","type":"","note":""}],"objectHistory":"Formerly from a sketchbook of drawings started in 1824.","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Leaf 7 (pages 13 and 14) from a sketchbook of drawings started in 1824. Sketches in graphite, ink and water-colour. Recto: Landscapes with church spires. Verso: Fields and hedges with text. By Samuel Palmer, Great Britain, ca.1824.","bibliographicReferences":[{"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":"p. 228","free":"Michael Phillips, <u>William Blake : apprentice & master</u> Oxford : Ashmolean, 2014. 272 pages : illustrations ; 30 cm. ISBN: 9781854442888 / 1854442880\r\n"},{"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 7 recto (13) (V&A 3513-1928). Two landscape studies somewhat resembling those of leaf 6 verso, the upper occupying most of the page; the lower, with a line drawn round it, is at lower right and occupies less than a quarter of the page. Each contains a church spire; in the larger design part of the cottage shows from behind trees at right.\r\nInscribed in ink lower left: The colour of ripe corn gives / to the green trees about an increa- / sed depth and transparent richness.\r\nBeneath this a small sketch, inscribed in ink:\r\nAll distant { Perfect flat fie[l]d of / grey earth / green trees & / fields /  Bright field of red / red corn.\r\nInscribed in ink lower right: These streaks [i.e. wavy lines as on leaf 6 verso] were as when one throws a stone into the water which spreads / out circles. They were caused thus heaps of reaped corn were laid / in lines across the field – I think Titian felt streaked fields.\r\n\r\nLeaf 7 verso (14). Upper half: slight sketch of sloping field with reaped corn, with a hedge and trees at right.\r\nBelow this, a horizontal line drawn across the page; under it, inscribed in ink: Opposite the cottage was )across a little valley where they were cutting corn), a range of hills you walk / up the sheep bells going all the time through several fields (of different sorts rye, hops, fallow, meadow) of colour, form, & / texture various – then you come to the line of thick wood which runs all along / the summit very close wild & intricate yet such as you would wish / to explore guided by one that knows its mazes to a shaded cottage & garden / of sweet herbs & flowers in the midst where you might forget the wretched / moderns & their spider’s webs - & their feasts on empty wind / thistles & dung – it’s a dog refusing plum pudding would lap up its / vomit. \r\n"}],"production":"","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[{"text":"landscape","id":"AAT15636"},{"text":"churches","id":"AAT7466"},{"text":"spires","id":"AAT2360"},{"text":"farmland","id":"AAT8632"},{"text":"fields","id":"AAT193636"},{"text":"hedgerows","id":"AAT8888"}],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[],"partNumbers":["E.3513-1928"],"accessionNumberNum":"3513","accessionNumberPrefix":"E","accessionYear":1928,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":["2019LN9233","2019LR0191","2019LU4612","2019LV3415"],"recordModificationDate":"2026-07-29","recordCreationDate":"2009-06-30","availableToBook":false}}