2023.623: A Cornfield with Windmill and Spire seen under a Crescent Moon; verso: Sketches of hill and moon

Identification and Creation

Object Number

2023.623

People

Samuel Palmer, British (London 1805 - 1881 Reigate, Surrey, England)

Title

A Cornfield with Windmill and Spire seen under a Crescent Moon; verso: Sketches of hill and moon

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

c. 1826-1827

Culture

British

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/377752

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Brown ink and brown wash with touches of graphite on cream card; verso: graphite

Dimensions

6.8 × 10.6 cm (2 11/16 × 4 3/16 in.)
frame: 25.4 × 28.6 × 1.9 cm (10 × 11 1/4 × 3/4 in.)
mat: 20 × 23.3 cm (7 7/8 × 9 3/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: verso, upper left, graphite: [obscured by adhesive remnant] Palmer

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

The artist, to his son, Alfred Herbert Palmer, Vancouver, by descent; to [Sotheby's London, March 18, 1971, lot 51]. [Leggatt Bros., London]. Private collection. [Christie's, London, July 7, 2009, lot 47] sold; to George and Patti White, loan; to Harvard Art Museums, 2023

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of George and Patti White

Accession Year

2023

Object Number

2023.623

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Laurence Binyon, The Followers of William Blake: Edward Calvert, Samuel Palmer, George Richmond & Their Circle, Halton & Truscott Smith (London, 1925), pl. 18 (as "The Cornfield")
• Geoffrey Grigson, Samuel Palmer: The Visionary Years, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. Ltd. (London, 1947), cat. no. 52, p. 167
• Important Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century English Drawings and Watercolours, auct. cat., Sotheby's, London (London, March 18, 1971), lot 51, repr.
• James Sellars, Samuel Palmer, Academy Editions (London, 1974), pp. 36-37; repr. as fig. 31 on p. 37
• David Blaney Brown, Samuel Palmer 1805-1881: Loan Exhibition from the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, exh. cat., Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox Ltd. (Oxford, 1982), p. 40, under no. 11
• Raymond Lister, Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of Samuel Palmer, Cambridge University Press (Cambridge, 1988), cat. no. 70, repr.
• Old Masters & 19th Century Art, auct. cat., Christie's, London (London, July 7, 2009), no. 47, repr.

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