Samuel Palmer: The Sketchbook of 1824
- Artist: Samuel Palmer
- Published: 2007
- Publisher: Thames and Hudson, London
- Format: Hardback
- Height: 17cm
- Pages: 224
- Illustrations: Illustrated Throughout in Colour.
£19.95
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This is the only sketchbook from Samuel Palmer’s visionary early years not to have been destroyed after his death.
Its pages vividly illustrate the crucial period when Palmer, a nineteen-year-old in the grip of religious and artistic fervour, first experienced his revelatory vision of a divinely ordered heaven on Earth located in the landscape and community of a still deeply rural Kent. No other source provides such an intimate record of Palmer’s artistic and spiritual struggles.
All of the sketchbook’s 162 surviving pages are presented in their original sequence and at their actual size.
Martin Butlin provides authoritative commentaries, notes and an introduction to Palmer’s life, while William Vaughan places the sketchbook in the context of the art and aesthetic of its time.
The sketchbook was first issued by the William Blake Trust in a limited edition.
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Artists Biography
(b Newington, London, 27 Jan 1805; d Redhill, Surrey, 24 May 1881). English painter, draughtsman and etcher. Palmer was a key figure of English Romantic painting who represented, at least in his early work, its pastoral, intuitive and nostalgic aspects at their most intense. He is widely described as a visionary and linked with his friend and mentor William Blake, though he stood at an almost opposite extreme in his commitment to landscape and his innocent approach to its imagery. He had none of Blake’s irony or complexity and was inspired by a passionate love of nature that found its philosophical dimension in unquestioning Neo-Platonism.Samuel Palmer
