SAMUEL PALMER, R.W.S. (1805-1881)

Lot 17
10.06.2025 00:00UTC +01:00
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ID 1422595
Lot 17 | SAMUEL PALMER, R.W.S. (1805-1881)
Estimate value
$ 40 000 – 60 000
SAMUEL PALMER, R.W.S. (1805-1881)
Study for the Etching 'Christmas'
with inscription by A.H. Palmer '[1st Sketch for/Christmas]' and '[Suggestion by/C/W/ Cope RA]' and 'Sq from/bottom' (in the margin)
pen and brown ink, heightened with touches of white, on buff paper with a blind stamp, squared for transfer with a subsidiary study for the figure (lower centre)
6 ¾ x 4 1/8 in. (17.2 x 10.5 cm.)




Provenance

The artist, and by descent to his son,
Alfred Herbert Palmer (1853-1932); Christie’s, London, 20 February 1928, lot 50 (4 ½ gns to Colnaghi).
with P&D Colnaghi, London, 1928.
with Nicholas Lott, Bath, from whom purchased in August 2006 for the present collection.




Literature

R. G. Alexander, A catalogue of the Etchings of Samuel Palmer,1937, Print Collectors Club, p. 54.
R. Lister, Catalogue Raisonné of the works of Samuel Palmer, Cambridge, 1988, no. 488, p. 169.



Exhibited

London, Victoria and Albert Museum, ‘Samuel Palmer; Catalogue of an Exhibition of Drawings, Etchings, & Woodcuts by other Disciples of William Blake’, 1926, no. 169, lent by A.H. Palmer.



Engraved

In etching, in reverse, by the artist, 1850.
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