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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Thames & Hudson
Publication date
April 1, 2006
Pages
221
Binding
Hardcover
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780500976517
ISBN-10
0500976511
Dimensions
1 by 6.75 by 9.25 in.
Weight
1.80 lbs.
Published in
Great Britain
Original list price
$65.00
Summaries and Reviews
Summary
Samuel Palmer was one of the most visionary and mystical landscape painters of the Romantic era. This volume is a facsimile of his sketchbook.
Amazon.com description: Product Description: A facsimile edition of the only surviving sketchbook by this visionary Romantic painter, published to coincide with a retrospective exhibition of Palmer's work.
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 A delicate and withdrawn child, he experienced intense and disturbing visions as a boy, while developing a love of the Bible and poetry that remained a lifelong inspiration for his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. Under the tutelage of William Blake and John Linnell, he became the most visionary and mystical landscape painter of the Romantic era in England.
This beautiful volume is a facsimile of the only sketchbook by Palmer in existence. Its pages vividly illustrate the crucial period when Palmer was a nineteen-year-old artist in rural Kent trying to establish his mature style. Religious fervor, the influence of Linnell, and the inspiration of Blake all combined to reveal to Palmer a vision of a divinely ordered heaven on Earth located in the landscape. No other surviving source provides such an immediate record of Palmer's processes of discovery, or gives such insight into the self-searching, artistic, and spiritual struggles that were soon to be resolved in his celebrated moonlit landscapes of the 1820s and 1830s.
All of the sketchbook's 162 surviving pagesânewly photographed in color, finely reproduced, and printed on paper resembling that of the originalâare presented in their original sequence and at their actual size. Martin Butlin provides authoritative page-by-page 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. 160 color illustrations.
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 A delicate and withdrawn child, he experienced intense and disturbing visions as a boy, while developing a love of the Bible and poetry that remained a lifelong inspiration for his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. Under the tutelage of William Blake and John Linnell, he became the most visionary and mystical landscape painter of the Romantic era in England.
This beautiful volume is a facsimile of the only sketchbook by Palmer in existence. Its pages vividly illustrate the crucial period when Palmer was a nineteen-year-old artist in rural Kent trying to establish his mature style. Religious fervor, the influence of Linnell, and the inspiration of Blake all combined to reveal to Palmer a vision of a divinely ordered heaven on Earth located in the landscape. No other surviving source provides such an immediate record of Palmer's processes of discovery, or gives such insight into the self-searching, artistic, and spiritual struggles that were soon to be resolved in his celebrated moonlit landscapes of the 1820s and 1830s.
All of the sketchbook's 162 surviving pagesânewly photographed in color, finely reproduced, and printed on paper resembling that of the originalâare presented in their original sequence and at their actual size. Martin Butlin provides authoritative page-by-page 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. 160 color illustrations.
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Hardcover
from Thames & Hudson (June 25, 2007)
9780500093337 | details & prices | 221 pages | 7.00 × 9.50 × 1.25 in. | 1.85 lbs | List price $40.00
About: A facsimile edition of the Romantic artist's only surviving sketchbook evaluates the influence of the Bible, William Blake, and other inspirations on his paintings, in an accessible volume that features pieces created during the religious fervor of his nineteenth year.
About: A facsimile edition of the Romantic artist's only surviving sketchbook evaluates the influence of the Bible, William Blake, and other inspirations on his paintings, in an accessible volume that features pieces created during the religious fervor of his nineteenth year.
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from Thames & Hudson (April 1, 2006)
9780500976517 | details & prices | 221 pages | 6.75 × 9.25 × 1.00 in. | 1.80 lbs | List price $65.00
About: A facsimile edition of the visionary Romantic painter's only surviving sketchbook reflects a time when Palmer, as a nineteen-year-old in rural Kent, was endeavoring to establish his mature style, an effort that was influenced by his religious faith and his tutelage under William Blake and John Linnell.
About: A facsimile edition of the visionary Romantic painter's only surviving sketchbook reflects a time when Palmer, as a nineteen-year-old in rural Kent, was endeavoring to establish his mature style, an effort that was influenced by his religious faith and his tutelage under William Blake and John Linnell.
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