Notes
Chapter 1: The Palmer Family
Chapter 2: Early Years
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In his essay ‘The Nation of London’ |
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Sketchbook, 1824, p. 81 |
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Sketchbook, 1824, p. 7 |
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Daniel Joseph Kirwan, Palace and Hovel: Or Phases of London Life, p. 32 |
Chapter 3: The Beginnings of an Artist
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Sketchbook, 1824, p. 75 |
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Inscribed by the artist on the verso |
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William Gilpin, Essay Upon Prints, 1768, p. 11 |
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As Samuel Johnson described him |
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John Flaxman, Lectures on Sculpture, 1829, Lecture VI, ‘Composition’ |
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Examiner, No. 742, 24 March 1822 |
Chapter 4: John Linnell
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Alfred T. Story, The Life of John Linnell, Vol. 1, p. 26 |
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David Linnell, Blake, Palmer, Linnell and Co.: The Life of John Linnell, p. 10 |
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The Times, 24 January 1882 |
Chapter 5: The Sketchbook of 1824
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Edward Bulwer Lytton, England and the English, p. 239 |
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C. R. Leslie, Memoirs of the Life of John Constable, p. 12 |
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1824 Sketchbook, p. 114 |
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F. G. Stephens, Memorials of William Mulready, p. 3 |
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Sketchbook, 1824, p. 59 |
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Sketchbook, 1824, p. 1 |
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Sketchbook, 1824, p. 28 |
Chapter 6: William Blake
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David V. Erdman (ed.), The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake, p. 565 |
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G. E. Bentley (ed.), Blake Records, p. 311 |
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Alexander Gilchrist, The Life of William Blake, p. 13 |
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Peter Ackroyd, Blake, p. 39 |
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Gilchrist, The Life of William Blake, p. 95 |
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Bentley (ed.), Blake Records, p. 517 |
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See William Blake, The Four Zoas |
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Erdman (ed.), The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake, p. 406 |
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Blake in Jerusalem: The Emanation of the Giant Albion |
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Ackroyd, Blake, p. 350 |
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Bentley (ed.), Blake Records, p. 313 |
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Erdman (ed.), The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake, p. 507 |
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Bentley (ed.), Blake Records, p. 51 |
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Gilchrist, The Life of William Blake, p. 52 |
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George Cumberland, Thoughts on Outline, p. 1 |
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Ackroyd, Blake, p. 203 |
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Erdman (ed.), The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake, p. 325 |
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Geoffrey Keynes (ed.), The Letters of William Blake, p. 8 |
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Ackroyd, Blake, p. 336 |
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Ackroyd, Blake, p. 325 |
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Erdman (ed.), The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake, p. 736 |
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Ackroyd, Blake, p. 312 |
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Story, The Life of John Linnell, Vol. 1, p. 228 |
Chapter 7: Palmer Meets Blake
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Bentley (ed.), Blake Records Supplement, p. 290 |
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Linnell, Blake, Palmer, Linnell and Co., p. 106 |
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Linnell, Blake, Palmer, Linnell and Co., p. 104 |
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Blake in his poem London |
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Hill, Christopher, The English Revolution, p. 280 |
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Bentley (ed.), Blake Records, p. 13 |
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Bentley (ed.), Blake Records Supplement, p. 310 |
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Story, The Life of John Linnell, p. 149 |
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Bentley (ed.), Blake Records Supplement, p. 81 |
Chapter 8: The Oxford Sepias
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Bentley (ed.), Blake Records, p. 318 |
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Sketchbook, 1824, p. 81 |
Chapter 9: The Primitive
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London Magazine, 1820, p. 42 |
Chapter 10: The Ancients
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Samuel Calvert, A Memoir of Edward Calvert, p. 17 |
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Gilchrist, The Life of William Blake, p. 299 |
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Raymond Lister, George Richmond, p. 26 |
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Calvert, A Memoir of Edward Calvert, p. 4 |
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A. M. W. Stirling (ed.), The Richmond Papers, p. 99 |
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Calvert, A Memoir of Edward Calvert, p. 53 |
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Calvert, A Memoir of Edward Calvert, p. 25 |
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Mrs Eliza Finch, Memorials of the Late Francis Oliver Finch, p. 7 |
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Quoted in Franz Harmann, The Life and Doctrines of Paracelsus, p. 172 |
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Quoted in ibid., p. 20 |
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Stirling (ed.), The Richmond Papers, p. 114 |
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Calvert, A Memoir of Edward Calvert, p. 17 |
Chapter 11: Shoreham
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Quoted in Roy Porter, London, A Social History, p. 257 |
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Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Book IV, verse xxix |
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Calvert, A Memoir of Edward Calvert, p. 33 |
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Lister, George Richmond, p. 16 |
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Keynes (ed.), The Letters of William Blake, p. 171 |
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Calvert, A Memoir of Edward Calvert, p. 37 |
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Finch, Memorials of the Late Francis Oliver Finch, p. 79 |
Chapter 12: A Work in the Valley of Vision
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Bentley (ed.), Blake Records, p. 294 |
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William Gilpin, Remarks on Forest Scenery 1791 |
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John Bull, vol. 5, no. 19, 8 May 1825, p. 150 |
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European Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 1, September 1825, p. 85 |
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Literary Gazette, 9 June 1832 |
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Athenaeum, 10 May 1834 |
Chapter 13: The Pastoral and the Political
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Stirling (ed.), The Richmond Papers, p. 18 |
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George Eliot, Adam Bede |
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George Eliot, Felix Holt |
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Sketchbook, 1824, pp. 127–9 |
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Political Register, December 1830 |
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William Cobbett, Rural Rides, p. 184 |
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Ibid., from Kensington Across Surrey, October 1825 |
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The Times, 27 October 1830 |
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The Times, 30 October 1830 |
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The Times, 27 October 1830 |
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Political Register, April 1830 |
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Political Register, September 1824 |
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The Times, 27 October 1830 |
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In a letter to Hannah Palmer, 30 September 1839 |
Chapter 14: The Sensual and the Spiritual
Chapter 15: The End of the Dream
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In a letter, 4 August 1836 |
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Calvert, Memoir of Edward Calvert, p. 49 |
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Lister, George Richmond, p. 21 |
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Finch, Memorials of the Late Francis Oliver Finch, p. 32 |
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Gilchrist, The Life of William Blake, p. 320 |
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Letter to Martin Hardie (V&A) |
Chapter 16 : Honeymoon in Italy
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Linnell, Blake, Palmer, Linnell and Co., p. 173 |
Chapter 17: Back in England
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Athenaeum, 25 May 1833 |
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Ruskin, ‘Of Truth’, Modern Painters, Vol. 1, 1846, p. 402 |
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Louisa Twining, Recollections of Life and Work, p. 133 |
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Anna Letitia Barbauld, Lessons for Children, London 1844, p. 97 |
Chapter 18: The Years of Disillusion
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‘pores and bores’ L494 |
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Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son |
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Ruskin, Modern Painters, Vol,.2, 1848 edition |
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Linnell, Palmer, Blake, Linnell and Co., p. 285 |
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William Faithorne, The Art of Graving and Etching. |
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Guardian, 30 April 1856 |
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Story, The Life of John Linnell, Vol. 2, Chapter 4 |
Chapter 19: A Bitter Blow
Chapter 20: Redhill
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Linnell, Blake, Palmer, Linnell and Co., p. 311 |
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Letter to Martin Hardie (V&A) |
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Letter to Martin Hardie (V&A) |
Chapter 21: The Milton Series
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Art Journal, 1 June 1866 |
Chapter 22: The Lonely Tower
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Letter to Martin Hardie (V&A) |
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Letter to Sir Frank Short, 12 November 1920 (Ashmolean) |
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Linnell, Blake, Palmer, Linnell and Co., p. 345 |
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This memoir was published in 1897 |
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Philip Gilbert Hamerton, An Autobiography and a Memoir by his wife, London 1897, p. 441 |
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Stirling (ed.), The Richmond Papers, p. 88 |
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William Butler Yeats, The Phases of the Moon |
Chapter 23: The Legacy
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Grigson, The Visionary Years, p. 96 |
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Stephens in Athenaeum, 16 April 1881 |
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The Times, 13 April 1881 |
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The Spectator, 16 April 1881 |
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Letters to Martin Hardie (V&A) |
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Eric Maclagan in a letter dated 2 November 1926 to A. H. Palmer |
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‘Samuel Palmer: Being’, a lecture delivered to the Print Collectors’ Club on 16 November 1927, Print Collectors’ Club, London, 1928, p. 47 |
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Quoted in foreword to the catalogue The English Vision, an exhibition at William Weston Gallery, London, 1973 |
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Malcolm Yorke, The Spirit of Place, p. 89 |
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Kenneth Clark, Landscape into Art, p. 71 |
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Tom Keating, The Fake’s Progress, p. 182 |