Harvesters by Firelight
1830
Artist, British, 1805 - 1881
Artwork overview
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Medium
pen and black ink with watercolor and gouache on wove paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 28.7 x 36.7 cm (11 5/16 x 14 7/16 in.)
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Accession
1986.72.12
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Catalogue Raisonné
Lister 1988, no. 125
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 27 July 1951, no. 19); (The Squire Gallery, London); Nigel Warren Q.C. [1912- 1967]. (sale, Christie's London, 24 March 1981, no. 142); (Baskett and Day, London); Paul Mellon, Upperville, VA; gift to NGA, 1986.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1987
English Drawings and Watercolors, 1630-1850, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1987-1988, no cat.
1993
The Great Age of British Watercolors 1750-1880, Royal Academy of Arts, London; National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1993, no. 224.
2005
Samuel Palmer, 1805 - 1881: Vision and Landscape, British Museum, London, and Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2005 - 2006, no. 68.
2006
The Artist's Vision: Romantic Traditions in Great Britain, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2006 - 2007
2016
In Celebration of Paul Mellon, NGA, 2016.
Bibliography
1988
Lister, Raymond. Catalogue Raisonne of the Works of Samuel Palmer. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1988.
1993
Wilton, Andrew and Anne Lyles. The Great Age of British Watercolours 1750-1880. Exh. cat. Royal Academy of Arts, London; National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1993: no. 224.
2015
Vaughan, William. Samuel Palmer: Shadows on the Wall. New Haven, 2015: 196 (noting that "the attribution to Palmer is somewhat problematical."
Inscriptions
by A.H. Palmer(?) artist's son and biographer, on left half of verso in graphite: The reflections of one of the incendiary fires / fires in Kent, I th ink about 1830 done I think / the next day - The building is, I think / Ightham Mote. A.H.P. [Palmer' s son] / Subject the harvesters hurrying away the / last of the harvest.
Wikidata ID
Q64630394