SAMUEL PALMER: The Sketchbook of 1824

Butlin, Martin (Editor)

London: Thames & Hudson, 2006. Hardcover. A facsimile edition of the only surviving sketchbook by this visionary Romantic painter. 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. Foreword by William Vaughan. Oblong octavo: 221 pp. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket - as new, still sealed in the original shrink wrap. Fine / Fine. Item #78774
ISBN: 0500976511

Price: $40.00