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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"},{"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\n126.A Country Road Leading toard a Church.\r\n1830\r\nVictoria And Albert Museum, London (34-1953)\r\nDark brown watercolour (wash and point of brush) on card. 184 x 149 mm.\r\nInscribed on the mount in A. H. Palmer's hand: One of numbers done at Shoreham showing the love of vivid contrasts of chiaroscuro.\r\nColl. Samuel Palmer; A. H. Palmer; Sir Frank Short; acquired by the Museum, 1953.\r\nExh. V&A 1926 (82, repr. cat.); Arts Council 1956 (25); Arts Council 1957 (38); V&A 1978-9 (8).\r\nLit. 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