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

Lot 261
03.07.2024 10:30UTC +00:00
Classic
Starting price
£ 15 000
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUnited Kingdom, London
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ID 1248262
Lot 261 | SAMUEL PALMER, R.W.S. (LONDON 1805-1881 REDHILL, SURREY)
Estimate value
£ 15 000 – 20 000
SAMUEL PALMER, R.W.S. (LONDON 1805-1881 REDHILL, SURREY)
La Vocatella: a Chapel built by a hermit near Corpo de Cava, in the neighbourhood of Salerno and Naples
signed, inscribed and dated 'Samuel Palmer 1844/ 4 Grove St. Lisson Gro[ve]' (lower right)
pencil, watercolour and bodycolour heightened with gum arabic and with scratching out on paper
15 ¼ x 19 7/8 in. (38.7 x 50.5 cm.)




Provenance

W.H. Glennie; Christie's, London, 22 June 1928, lot 37 as 'A Classical Landscape' (sold 90 gns to Vicars).
Mrs B.M. Towlson; Sotheby's 19 April 1961, lot 57 as 'A Monastery near Naples with Peasant Women and their Goats in the Foreground' (sold £1,300 to Lock).



Literature

R. Lister, The Letters of Samuel Palmer, Oxford, 1974, p. 179.
R. Lister, Catalogue Raisonné of the works of Samuel Palmer, Cambridge, 1988, p. 145, no. 392.



Exhibited

Probably London, Old Water-Colour Society, summer 1845, no. 98.
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