Samuel Palmer The Sketchbook Of 1824

Name: Samuel Palmer The Sketchbook Of 1824
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ISBN: 9780500093337

ISBN-10: 0500093334

ISBN-13: 9780500093337

Edition: 2007 (Revised)

Authors: Martin Butlin, William Vaughan

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A facsimile edition of the only surviving sketchbook by this visionary Romantic painter. Child prodigy Samuel Palmer was just fourteen years old when he first exhibited at London's Royal Academy in 1819. A delicate and withdrawn child, he experienced intense and disturbing visions as a boy, while developing a love of the Bible and poetry that remained a lifelong inspiration for his art. Influenced by William Blake and John Linnell, he became the most visionary and mystical landscape painter of the Romantic era in England. Previously issued in a special limited edition, this volume reproduces the only sketchbook by Palmer in existence, now at a reduced price. Its pages vividly illustrate…

Book details

List price: $40.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Publication date: 6/17/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 224
Size: 9.60" wide x 7.00" long x 1.20" tall
Weight: 1.870
Language: English



Frontispiece: Samuel Palmer, Self-portrait c.1824


Preface: The William Blake Trust


Foreword: William Vaughan, Palmer and the 'Revival of Art'


Introduction: Martin Butlin


The Sketchbook Pages


Commentary on the Sketchbook Pages: Martin Butlin


Appendices A and B


Abbreviations and Acknowledgments