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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. 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