- Title:
- At Hailsham, Sussex: a Storm Approaching
- Date:
- 1821
- Medium:
- Watercolor and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 8 1/4 × 12 1/2 inches (21 × 31.8 cm) and Frame: 17 1/4 x 23 1/2 x 1in. (43.8 x 59.7 x 2.5cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in pen and brown ink, lower left: "At Hailsham - | SP"; inscribed on verso in graphite, upper center: "Picture from this sketch exhibited at the British Institution 1822 Life & Letters Catlogue | 'Storm Coming' p 407 | This sketch was made before Samuel Palmer knew John Linnell"
Signed in pen and brown ink, lower left: "SP"; signed and dated in pen and brown ink, upper right: "1821 Sussex SP | 17".
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1981.25.2656
- Classification:
- Drawings & Watercolors
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- fields | landscape | meteorology | rain | science | sky | storm
- Associated Places:
- East Sussex | England | English Channel | Europe | Hailsham | Sussex | United Kingdom
- Access:
- Accessible by request in the Study Room [Request]
Note: As a COVID-19 precaution, the Study Room is closed until further notice. - Exhibition History:
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Samuel Palmer and "The Ancients" (The Fitzwilliam Museum, 1984-10-09 - 1984-12-16)
Samuel Palmer 1805-1881 Vision and Landscape (British Museum, 2005-10-21 - 2006-01-22)
Samuel Palmer 1805-1881 Vision and Landscape (Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2006-03-07 - 2006-05-28)
Connections (Yale Center for British Art, 2011-05-26 - 2011-09-11)
- Publications:
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David Ebony, Samuel Palmer's Luminous Garden, Art in America, vol. 94, no. 9, October 2006, p. 148, N1 A43 (LC)+ Oversize (HAAS) Some volumes are also available Online (ORBIS)
William Vaughan, Samuel Palmer : shadows on the wall, The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, New Haven, 2015, pp. 48-49, fig. 36, NJ18.P19 V37 2015 OVERSIZE (YCBA)
- Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:19907
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Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881, British, active in Italy (1837–39), At Hailsham, Sussex: a Storm Approaching, 1821
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