Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881, British, active in Italy (1837–39)
Title:
A Cow Lodge with a Mossy Roof
Date:
ca. 1829
Materials & Techniques:
Watercolor, gouache, and pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 10 1/2 x 14 3/4 inches (26.7 x 37.5 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed on verso in red chalk, lower left: "154"; in graphite, lower center: "14 1/2 x 10 3/4"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1975.4.1876
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
stable | farm | lodge | barn | shed | roof | animal art | cows | cattle | hay
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Samuel Palmer 1805-1881 Vision and Landscape (British Museum, 2005-10-21 - 2006-01-22)

Samuel Palmer 1805-1881 Vision and Landscape (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2006-03-07 - 2006-05-28)

British Watercolors - Drawings of the 18th and 19th Centuries from the Yale Center for British Art (Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 1985-04 - 1986-08)

British Watercolors - Drawings of the 18th and 19th Centuries from the Yale Center for British Art (Memorial Art Gallery of Rochester, 1985-04 - 1986-08)

British Watercolors - Drawings of the 18th and 19th Centuries from the Yale Center for British Art (Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1985-04 - 1986-08)

British Watercolors - Drawings of the 18th and 19th Centuries from the Yale Center for British Art (Portland Art Museum, 1985-04 - 1986-08)

British Watercolors - Drawings of the 18th and 19th Centuries from the Yale Center for British Art (Toledo Museum of Art, 1985-04 - 1986-08)

British Watercolors - Drawings of the 18th and 19th Centuries from the Yale Center for British Art (Block Museum of Art, 1985-04 - 1986-08)

British Watercolors - Drawings of the 18th and 19th Centuries from the Yale Center for British Art (Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, 1985-04 - 1986-08)

British Painting and the European Continent (Haus der Kunst Munich, 1979-11-20 - 1980-01-27)

English Landscape (Paul Mellon Collection) 1630-1850 (Yale Center for British Art, 1977-04-19 - 1977-07-17)
Publications:
David Ebony, Samuel Palmer's Luminous Garden, Art in America, vol. 94, no. 9, October 2006, p. 149, N1 A43 (LC)+ Oversize (HAAS) Some volumes are also available Online (ORBIS)

John Gage, Zwei Jahrhunderte englische Malerei : britische Kunst und Europa 1680 bis 1880 : [Ausstellung] Haus der Kunst Mèunchen, 21. November 1979 bis 27. Januar 1980: [Katalog], , Ausstellungsleitung Haus der Kunst München, Munich, 1979, p. 453, no. 299, fig. 299, ND466 Z85 (YCBA)

Samuel Palmer, Tate Publishing, London, p. 30, fig. 25, NJ18.P19 W55 2005 (YCBA)

William Vaughan, Samuel Palmer : shadows on the wall, The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, New Haven, 2015, pp. 167, 168, fig. 139, NJ18.P19 V37 2015 OVERSIZE (YCBA)

Scott Wilcox, British watercolors : drawings of the 18th and 19th centuries from the Yale Center for British Art, , Hudson Hill Press, New York, 1985, no. 46, pl. 46, ND1928 W533 1985 (YCBA)
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:13044