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Among his most experimental works are what he called his ‘blacks’, the intensely atmospheric, tonal brush drawings made during the time he lived in Shoreham in Kent, a place he regarded as his ‘valley of vision’. He began to make the ‘blacks’ to explore ways of representing the mysterious nocturnal landscape, and the effect of moonlight reflecting on clouds and shining through trees. 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Observation and Imagination in British Art 1750-1950</i>, Brussels : Mercatorfonds ; Ghent : Museum voor Schone Kunsten, 2007","id":"AUTH354952"},"details":"254","free":""},{"reference":{"text":"<i>Catalogue of an exhibition of drawings, etchings & woodcuts by Samuel Palmer and other disciples of William Blake.</i> London, Pub. under the authority of the Board of Education, 1926","id":"AUTH354389"},"details":"no.71","free":""},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Fabian Miller, Garry (artist/author) Topp, Gary (author) Garry Fabian Miller: Adore Bristol : Arnolfini, 2023\r\n\r\nPublished to coincide with the exhibition<i> Garry Fabian Miller: Adore</i> at the Arnolfini Gallery, 18 February - 28 May 2023\r\n\r\npg. 114\r\nThe darkroom is now obsolete and its natural mirror - the dark night sky - is being erased by electric light. My work owes as much to night walking as to daylight. At night I feel close to the outer light buried in the earth and the night sky. On moonless nights when the stars are free, this deeper light is intense. When the moon returns with the sun's reflected light, it offers a different way of seeing."},{"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\n113. Landscape with Full Moon and Deer\nc. 1829-30\nBrown and black watercolour (wash and point of brush) on card. 150 x 94 mm.\nColl... M. B. Walker, from whom acquired by the Museum, 1920.\nExh. V&amp;A 1926 (71b); Graves 1961 (21); V&amp;A 1978-9 (6, titled Composition).\nLit. Grigson pp. 56, 93, 175 (No. 81), repr. pl. 37; Sellars p. 71, repr p. 69.\nRepr. Peacock p. 5\nHere the light of the full moon on billow clouds (cf. Nos. 110-12 - which includes E.453-1953) is a small part of an elaborate composition of hilly landscape and trees with an almost hieratic figure, perhaps a shepherd, and deer in the foreground. 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