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He greatly admired the work of the artist and poet William Blake (1757-1827). He especially admired Blake’s visionary approach and his lack of respect for conventional watercolour techniques.\r\n\r\nThis watercolour has a magical, powerful and dreamlike quality. Palmer painted it during his ‘Shoreham Period’. He stayed in Shoreham, a village in the English county of Kent, from 1826 until about 1834.","physicalDescription":"View of a track through a woodland, leading down a slight hill in the distance to a stile. On the right of the image is a simple thatched roof  barn, with a set of two-wheeled carts under it. 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Palmer fect.'","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"","transliteration":"","type":"","note":"Signed."}],"objectHistory":"","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Samuel Palmer. Landscape with a Barn, Shoreham, Kent. England, c.1828.","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Vaughan, William, Elizabeth E. Barker and Colin Harrison, eds.  <u>Samuel Palmer 1805-1881: Vision and Landscape</u>.  London: The British Museum Press, 2005.  256 p., ill. (chiefly col.).  Catalogue of the exhibition held at the British Museum, 12 October 2005 – 22 January 2006.  ISBN 0714126411.  Cat. no. 42, p. 118, illus."},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"<u>Victoria and Albert Museum, Department of Engraving, Illustration and Design and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1937</u>, London: Board of Education, 1938."},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"William Vaughan, 'Samuel Palmer. Shadows on the wall', New Haven : Yale University Press, [2015]. ISBN: 9780300209853. \r\nInterestingly, the Cart Shed and Lane that he also painted at this time, and that he gave to Linnell, is slightly more distant in its view, and less hypnotic in character. Like the Lullingworth oaks, these studies appear to offer a deliberate challenge to the characteristic practices of out of door study at the time. Ancient dilapidated buildings, like venerable old tress, were part of the standard fare of picturesque sketching. They were recommended to amateurs in every manual and certainly figure in those by Cox that had formed part of palmer’s early education. But unlike the decrepit rustic structures in such manuals, Palmer has looked at these two straight on without ceremony. He has refused to make them into ‘compositions’. He has also refused to arrange the detail in them with any sense of ‘balance’. Instead he picks upon a particular feature, in both cases here a mossy roof, and goes off into a seemingly endless relation of its intricacies that take it far away from the mundane nature of the overall place. To some extent this may be a celebration of nature reasserting itself against man, for it is the process of decay that he has highlighted. The moss that is spreading across the thatch will eventually bring down the roof. The effect is made all the more intense by the contrast with the rather bland watercolour style adopted for the rest of the work. The whole technique. As in the Lullingstone studies, shows Palmer’s love of the effects of mixing media, running the density of gouache and the sharpness of pen against the smooth washes of watercolour.\r\nAnother feature of such studies is that they seem to have been done purely for themselves, for there is no sign of them having contributed to any of his finished compositions. It was the experience of getting to know the forms of nature more intimately that he seems to have been relishing.\r\n"},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"William Vaughan, 'Samuel Palmer. Shadows on the wall', New Haven : Yale University Press, [2015]. ISBN: 9780300209853. \r\n142, Cart Shed and Lane, c. 1828, watercolour and pen, 26.6 x 37.1 cm. London, Victoria and Albert Museum.\r\nA painting presumably made for Linnell, as it comes from his collection. 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