Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881, British, active in Italy (1837–39)
Title:
Cornfield and Church by Moonlight
Date:
early 1830s
Materials & Techniques:
Brush and black ink on very thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 6 x 7 1/4 inches (15.2 x 18.4 cm)
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1977.14.4162
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
landscape | church | trees | night | moonlight | moon | cornfield | sheaf
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Rachel Rose: Goodnight Moon (SITE Santa Fe, 2023-06-02 - 2023-09-11)Connections (Yale Center for British Art, 2011-05-26 - 2011-09-11)Samuel Palmer 1805-1881 Vision and Landscape (British Museum, 2005-10-21 - 2006-01-22)British Drawings (Davis & Langdale Co.) (Davis & Langdale Co., Inc., 1985-05-01 - 1985-05-31)
Publications:
Christiana Payne, Toil and plenty : images of the agricultural landscape in England, 1780-1890, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1993, pp. 160-61, no. 67, ND1354.4 P39 1993 (YCBA)William Vaughan, Samuel Palmer : shadows on the wall, The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, New Haven, 2015, pp. 155, 187, fig. 157, NJ18.P19 V37 2015 OVERSIZE (YCBA)