1830
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
In a Shoreham Garden is a 1830 watercolor by Samuel Palmer, a Romanticism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
Samuel Palmer painted *In a Shoreham Garden* around 1830. It’s a watercolour, not oil—small but full of detail. The garden shows how Palmer mixed Romantic ideals with daily life. Palmer taught himself and loved William Blake’s bold style. He stretched watercolour rules too. That’s why this work feels dreamlike, not stiff. Check out the Victoria and Albert Museum next time you’re in London.
In this 1830 watercolour from Palmer’s Shoreham period, an apple tree in full blossom occupies a walled garden, while a woman in a red robe stands beyond it.
Read the full account in the museum source.
Samuel Palmer Hon.RE (Hon. Fellow of the Society of Painter-Etchers) (27 January 1805 – 24 May 1881) was a British landscape painter, etcher and printmaker. He was also a prolific writer. Palmer was a key figure in…
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