Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881, British, active in Italy (1837–39)
Title:
A Shepherd and his Flock under the Moon and Stars
Date:
ca. 1827
Materials & Techniques:
Brown wash, gray wash, and white gouache with pen and brown ink on very thick, slightly textured, card
Dimensions:
Sheet: 4 1/4 x 5 1/8 inches (10.8 x 13 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed on mount in graphite lower left: "[...] Shoreham period showing Blake's influences"; on mount in graphite lower left: "19 x 12 1/2 | U."
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1981.25.2655
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
landscape | genre subject | stars | night | shepherd | astronomy | crook, shepherd's | moon | sheep | rocks (landforms)
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Rachel Rose: Goodnight Moon (SITE Santa Fe, 2023-06-02 - 2023-09-11)

The Critique of Reason : Romantic Art, 1760–1860 (Yale University Art Gallery, 2015-03-06 - 2015-07-26)

Samuel Palmer 1805-1881 Vision and Landscape (British Museum, 2005-10-21 - 2006-01-22)

The Pastoral Landscape - The Legacy of Venice (National Gallery of Art, 1988-11-06 - 1989-01-22)

Samuel Palmer and "The Ancients" (The Fitzwilliam Museum, 1984-10-09 - 1984-12-16)

English Landscape (Paul Mellon Collection) 1630-1850 (Yale Center for British Art, 1977-04-19 - 1977-07-17)

English Drawings and Watercolors from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon (Yale University Art Gallery, 1965-04-15 - 1965-06-20)
Publications:
A loan exhibition of English drawings and watercolours from the collection of Mr and Mrs Paul Mellon of Upperville, Virginia, P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., London, 1964, no. 21, N5247.M385 L62 (YCBA)

An exhibition of English drawings and water colors from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, February 18-April 1, 1962, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1962, p. 40, no. 50b, NC228 U6 (YCBA) Copy 2 is on Mellon Shelf

British Art at Yale, Apollo, vol.105, April 1977, p. 276, N1 .A54 + OVERSIZE (YCBA)

Raymond Lister, Samuel Palmer and " the Ancients ", Cambridge University Press, Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York, 1984, pp. 12-13, cat. no. 14, NJ18 P19 L565 (YCBA)

Painting in England 1700-1850 : collection of Mr. & Mrs. Paul Mellon : Exhibition at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, , , Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA, 1963, p. 105, no. 191, ND466 V57 v.1-2 (YCBA)

Graham Reynolds, English Landscape 1630-1850, Apollo, vol.105, April 1977, p. 276, fig. 20, N1 A54 105:2 + (YCBA)

Samuel Palmer, Tate Publishing, London, p. 26, fig. 20, 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, p. 184, fig. 152, NJ18.P19 V37 2015 OVERSIZE (YCBA)

Yale University Art Gallery, English drawings and watercolors from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, April 15-June 20,1965, , New Haven, 1965, no. 21, NC228 Y34 (YCBA)
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:19906