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

Starting price
£ 30 000
Auction dateClassic
04.07.2023 14:30UTC +01:00
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CHRISTIE'S
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United Kingdom, London
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ID 991645
Lot 133 | SAMUEL PALMER, R.W.S. (LONDON 1805-1881 REDHILL, SURREY)
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

15 1/4 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') (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') (£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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