The Flock and the Star
Details
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Title
The Flock and the Star
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Artist/maker
Samuel Palmer ("Samuel Palmer") (1805 - 1881) -
Associated place
Europe (place of creation) -
Date
c. 1831 - 1832 -
Material and technique
pen and brush in Indian ink over indications in graphite and brown ink, on white card
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Object type
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Dimensions
sheet 14.9 x 17.7 cm (height x width) -
No. of items
1
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Credit line
Purchased, 1940.
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Museum location
Museum department
Western Art
Accession no.
WA1940.64
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Further reading
Lister, Raymond, Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of Samuel Palmer (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988), 133
Herring, Sarah, ‘Samuel Palmer's Shoreham drawings in Indian ink: A matter of light and shade’, Apollo, (1998), no. 6 on p. 41
Harrison, Colin, Samuel Palmer (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2004), p. 38, illus. p. 39
William Vaughan, Elizabeth E. Barker, Colin Harrison et al., Samuel Palmer: Vision and Landscape; 21 October 2005-22 January 2006 (British Museum Press, London; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2005), no. 72 on p. 145
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