Full Description
This book, which accompanied the first major retrospective of Samuel Palmer's work in nearly 80 years, unites 170 of Palmer's finest watercolours, drawings, etchings and oils from public and private collections in the UK, Canada, Australia, the Netherlands and the United States. It highlights the artist's celebrated early work, executed in a visionary style inspired by William Blake, and re-examines Palmer's vibrant middle-period Italian studies and masterful late watercolours and etchings.
Contents
ContentsLiterary Inspiration David Blayney Brown; Palmer and the Politics of Landscape David Bindham; Palmer and Richmond Elizabeth Barker; Palmer and the Neo-Romantics Colin Harrison; Part One: The Romantic Visionary; 1. Early Years; 2. The Primitive Vision; 3. Shoreham and the Ancients; 4. Later Shoreham; Part Two: The Victorian; 5. The Traveller; 6. Italy; 7. Sketches and Idylls; 8. The Lonely Tower; Chronology; Select Bibliography; Glossary; Index
