Yale Center for British Art

Creator:: Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881, British, active in Italy (1837–39)
Title:: Timber Wagon Crossing a Stream
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor and gouache on thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 7/8 × 8 3/4 inches (17.5 × 22.2 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:: Inscribed in graphite, lower left : "The [...] of Kinnaid from Gold"; lower right in graphite: "6/58 x | to stand A223."; on verso, upper right: "7 8 1/4 |1 5/7 or 1/4 7/35/7/5 | 7 | 6 1/4"; center: "other side prepared"
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:: Public Domain
Accession Number:: B2001.2.1085
Classification:: Drawings & Watercolors
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:: oxen | clouds | fording | trees | stream | bridge (built work) | timber | people | crossing | landscape | wagon | genre subject
Currently On View:: Not on view
Publications:: 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. 193, ND466 V57 v.1-2 (YCBA)
Link:: https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:46384