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A subject dearly loved by SP throughout life.'","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"","transliteration":"","type":"","note":"Inscribed on verso in pencil in A. H. Palmer's hand."}],"objectHistory":"This drawing was formerly in the collection of Sir Frank Short, R.A., P.R.E., R.I., and was no.74 in the Exhibition of Drawings, Etchings and Woodcuts by Samuel Palmer and other Disciples of William Blake, held at the Victoria and Albert Museum, 1926; No. 28 in the exhibition 'Samuel Palmer & his circle' organised by the Arts Council. 1957; no.88 in 'The Nineteenth Century' held at the University Gallery, University of Minnesota, 26 March to 23 April 1962, and at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 15 May to 1 July 1962. It is no.75 in the catalogue in G. 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Observation and Imagination in British Art 1750-1950</i>, Brussels : Mercatorfonds ; Ghent : Museum voor Schone Kunsten, 2007","id":"AUTH354952"},"details":"253","free":""},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"<u>Catalogue of an Exhibition of Drawings, Etchings & Woodcuts by Samuel Palmer and other Disciples of William Blake October 20 - December 31, 1926</u>. London : Published under the authority of the Board of Education, 1926. Publication No. 178 E.I.D."},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"<u>Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings Accessions 1953 </u> London: HMSO, 1963"},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Hoozee, Robert ed.  <u>British Vision: Observation and Imagination in British Art, 1750-1950.</u>  Brussels : Mercatorfonds, 2007.  424 p. : ill."},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"<u>Samuel Palmer and his Circle: the Shoreham Period.</u>  London: The Arts Council, 1957.  35 p., [4] p. of plates : ill."},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"<u> The nineteenth century one hundred twenty-five master drawings; a loan exhibition organized for the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, by the University Gallery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.</u>  New York, 1962.   [95] p. illus., plates.\r\n "},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Grigson, Geoffrey.  <u>Samuel Palmer: the visionary years.</u>  London, K. Paul, 1947.  xi, 206 p. plates."},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"William Vaughan, 'Samuel Palmer. Shadows on the wall', New Haven : Yale University Press, [2015]. ISBN: 9780300209853. \r\n144, the Primitive Cottage, c. 1828-9, brown ink, 22.4 x 30.2 cm. London, Victoria and Albert Museum.\r\nAt the same  time as Palmer was making intensive watercolour studies of natural forms, he was also developing a vigorous pen style to express textures and forms in nature. The image of a cottage with a smoking chimney as a haven of domesticity occurs frequently in his work."},{"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\n99. The Primitive Cottage\r\nc. 1828-9\r\nVictoria And Albert Museum, London (452-1953)\r\nPen and brown ink, grey and brown wash, heightened with white, and traces of pencil, grey paper.\r\n224 x 302 mm\r\nSheet blind-stamped uppper right: CRAYON PAPERS / FAST COLOURS / CRESWICK and with a lozenge.\r\nInscribed on verso in pencil in A. H. Palmenr's hand: Qy use as illustration for Proposed new Life of S.P. [A.H. Palmer did not write a new life of his father after 'Life and Letters' but he filled 24 exercise boks (Ivimy MSS) with copious notes intended for use in such a work. The are extensively quoted in 'Life'.] / For Sir Frank Short 'The Primitive Cottage'. A subject dearly loved by SP throughout life.\r\nColl. Samuel Palmer; A. H. Palmer; Sir Frank Short; acquired by the Museum, 1953.\r\nExh: V&A 1926 (74, repr. cat.); Arts Council 1956 (18); Arts Council 1957 (28); V&A 1978-9 (2).\r\nLit: Grigson pp. 90, 173-4 (no. 75), repr. pl. 31; G. Grigson, 'English Drawing', 1955, p. 181, repr. pl. 114.\r\nRepr. Palmer Country p. 32.\r\nA similar subject to no. 98 [Yale B1977.14.6068]; this drawing may be a different view of the same cottage. The slope in the foreground is a compositional device Palmer frequently used (cf No. 46 - The Rest on the Flight to Egypt, Ashmolean Museum).\r\nThe technique is a combination of the open approach in such works as Nos. 91-2 [Sepham Barn, Ashmolean Museum and The Valley of Vision, Yale B1977.4.1835) with the looser drawing in No. 79 [The Valley Farm, British Musuem 1980-10-11-224); the bold outlining of the centre tree and the firm deliniation of the cottage resemble some of Linnell's drawings of a few years later (see commentary to no. 74, Cottage among Trees, Yale B1977.14.4666)."}],"production":"","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[{"text":"cottages","id":"AAT5500"}],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[],"partNumbers":["E.452-1953"],"accessionNumberNum":"452","accessionNumberPrefix":"E","accessionYear":1953,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2026-08-03","recordCreationDate":"2006-07-21","availableToBook":false}}