About This Artwork

Samuel Palmer
English, 1805-1881

View from Wilmots Hill, Kent, 1830/1835

Watercolor over black chalk on cream wove paper
246 x 365 mm
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. William O. Hunt, 1978.276

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

London, Royal Academy, "Works by Old Masters," 1893, cat. 118.

London, P. & D. Colnaghi & Co, "English Drawings, Watercolors, and Paintings," 1976, cat. 65.

The Art Institute of Chicago, "Great Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago: The Harold Joachim Years 1958-1983," July 24-September 30, 1985, pp. 126-127, cat. 56 (ill.), cat. by Martha Tedeschi.

The Art Institute of Chicago, May 7, 1986-January 19, 1987.

Publication History

Raymond Lister, Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of Samuel Palmer (Cambridge, 1988), no. 502 (ill.).

Ownership History

George Richmond (died 1896), England [London 1975]; by descent to H. L. Richmond [London 1975]. Sold, Christie's, London, November 27, 1975, lot 14, to P. & D. Colnaghi and Company, London; sold to the Art Institute, 1978.