Samuel Palmer, R.W.S. (London 1805-1881 Surrey)

An aqueduct in the Roman Campagna

Details

Samuel Palmer, R.W.S. (London 1805-1881 Surrey)
An aqueduct in the Roman Campagna
with inscription 'The Campagne + Aquaduct/S. Palmer' (on the verso)
pencil and watercolour with gum arabic, heightened with touches of bodycolour and with scratching out, unframed
5¾ x 15 7/8 in. (14.8 x 40.4 cm.)

Provenance

H.T. Worton; Sotheby's, London, 10 July 1980, lot 178.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 20 November 1984, lot 116.

Exhibited

London, Society of Painters in Watercolours, 1843, no. 312.

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Lot Essay

On 30 September 1837 Palmer married Hannah Linnell (1818-1893) the eldest of John Linnell's nine children. They departed on their Italian honeymoon on 4 October in the company of George and Julia Richmond and their son. They returned to England in late November 1839.
The present work is one of two Roman subjects exhibited at the Watercolour Society by Palmer in 1843. The other, a view of the Colosseum and Alban Mount, no. 56 in the exhibition, is now in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.

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