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An ink drawing, showing a family seated watching a group of women dancing in a ring, a harvest moon behind the large hay rick they are dancing around. 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Adapted from Psalm 136:9."},{"content":"Thou / [crown - deleted] / crownest / the year / with thy / goodness.","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 bottom right. from Psalm 65:11."}],"objectHistory":"The sketchbook was given to George Richmond by Samuel Palmer, and bequeathed by the former to Mr. A. H. Palmer. Some of the designs in the book show the influence of Albert Durer and of William Blake very strongly. Samuel Palmer knew Blake's work already, though he did not see him for the first time till the 9th October 1824. It was with reference to this sketchbook that he wrote in 1824: \"I will now begin a new sketchbook and, I hope, try to work with a child's simple feeling and with the industry of humility.\"","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"'Harvest Celebration'. Ink drawing showing a group of women dancing in a ring, a harvest moon behind them. On the verso are drawings of tree trunks. Leaf 20 (pages 39 and 40) from a sketchbook begun by Samuel Palmer in 1824.","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"Vaughan, William, Barker, Elizabeth E., Harrison, Colin, et al. <i>Samuel Palmer 1805- 1881 : Vision and Landscape</i>. 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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 20 recto (39) (V&A 2358-1928). A harvest home celebration. At the centre on a hillock, a basket or wire platform with stooks of corn on it. Above this, a large moon (inscribed HARVEST / MOON) with a halo around it. Outside the halo, two constellations. A ring of figures dances around the platform. In the foreground on the far side of a fence, two reclining figures, a woman at the left, a man at the right, each with a panel (meant for books?) alongside: that on the left inscribed in ink: The / moon / also to / rule by night / for his mercy / endureth / for ever [adapted from Psalm CXXXVI.9]; that on the right inscribed in ink: Thou / <’crown’ deleted> / crownest / the year / with thy / goodness [Psalm LXV.11]. Between these figures three children, two of them on the near side of the fence looking at the third on the far side. The third figure, between the others and apparently in swaddling clothes wears a halo-like straw headdress with springs of barley stuck in it. Possibly this child and the two reclining figures represent the Holy Family. Hilly landscapes at left and right of the composition; that at left contains two churches, one with a spire behind a small field of stooked corn; that at right has a cottage among trees, one of them a palm.\r\n\r\nLeaf 20 verso (40). 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