Details
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.
Special notice
This lot has been imported from outside of the UK for sale and placed under the Temporary Admission regime. Import VAT is payable at 5% on the hammer price. VAT at 20% will be added to the buyer’s premium but will not be shown separately on our invoice.
Details
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.
Special notice
This lot has been imported from outside of the UK for sale and placed under the Temporary Admission regime. Import VAT is payable at 5% on the hammer price. VAT at 20% will be added to the buyer’s premium but will not be shown separately on our invoice.
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