The quintessential image of the English rural idyll. The ancient thatched cottage, built in 1390, all mullion windows and roses round the door, the high June skies, the thatcher posing before his work with only a slight hint of pretentiousness.....ahh, the English summer!

The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed with Sun (c. 1805) detail Pen & ink with watercolor National Gallery of Art #WilliamBlake

It’s almost August…🌾 The Gleaning Field  1833 Tempera on mahogany board Tate #SamuelPalmer

#OTD 1856 Palmer writes in his notes “There is an ancient brick house which stands back in the High Street of Margate, whence, eighty or ninety years since, my grandmother leaped in affright from a first-floor window” A Hilly Scene c.1826–8 (fragment) #SamuelPalmer

Tonight's goodnight image is ‘Sunset’, Samuel Palmer, watercolour and gouache, circa 1861. Available as a single card or as part of the Samuel Palmer Greetings Card Collection (No. 3). Sleep tight. rathergoodart.co.uk/product/samuel…

It was too cloudy last night to see the supermoon. Here's a few to compensate. The image is from a forthcoming pamphlet by Louisa Albani and me about the relationship between #samuelpalmer and #williamblake and shows Blake talking to John Varley. blueridgejournal.com/poems/sp-moon.…

#OTD 1827 Death of William Blake. "Just before he died his countenance became fair. His eyes brighten'd and he burst out singing of the things he saw in heaven" He is buried in Bunhill Fields Burial Grounds, London blogs.bl.uk/untoldlives/20…

In memory of the death of #williamblake #OTD 1827. This is a sketch by John Linnell of Blake on Hampstead Heath. I've just finished contributing to a pamphlet about them, #samuelpalmer and a group of young artists who called themselves The Ancients.

In the evening #OTD 1827 William Blake the “Poet Artist Prophet” passed away at Fountain Court London. All that day he worked tirelessly on his Dante series. His obituary on the 18th reported “he died as he had lived, piously, cheerfully, talking calmly…”#WilliamBlake

#OTD 1827 George Richmond writes to Palmer of William Blake’s death “My Dear Friend lest you should not have heard of the death of Mr Blake I have written this to inform you. He died on Sunday night at 6 Oclock in a most glorious manner” 💔 #SamuelPalmer

The Golden Hour [Known also as " The Glorious Sunset] 1865 Watercolor and gouache The Cleveland Museum of Art “Though heaven and earth with August glow, Our island streams unstinted flow" #SamuelPalmer

It's #55PlacesFriday! This week we're showcasing #Shoreham. This idyllic village with it's cobbled streets, medieval cottages and serene countryside was inspiration for 19th-century English landscape painter, Samuel Palmer 🎨 🔗 bit.ly/3OHaNxr #UpTheKentDowns

Cornfield by Moonlight, with the Evening Star; bundles of corn and a farmer with staff in the foreground by Samuel Palmer c.1830 Watercolour & bodycolour, with pen & ink (British Museum)

#OTD Palmer writes to R. Valpy “I have just got up from a very pleasant musing upon The Haunted Stream which I hope before very long will be in a showable state” The Towered City: The Haunted Stream 1867-68 V&A #SamuelPalmer

#OTD 1826 Palmer writes in his journal “Now I go out to draw some hops that their fruitful sentiment may be infused into my figures..” 🌾 Scene at Underriver, Kent or The Hop Garden 1830s Oil & tempera #SamuelPalmer

Then there's The Golden Valley by Samuel Palmer c 1833-4 Watercolour and gouache (Private Collection) #ContrastandCompare

Now available for pre-order from Nightbird Press. nightbirdpress.com/product-page/i… The Blake Society #williamblake #samuelpalmer

Palmer to Valpy #OTD 1887 “…In Italian cities I think the English eye enjoys physically a rest from right angles and perfectly straight lines which harass it in every square rood of London buildings” Panoramic of Florence from San Miniato 1837–39 Watercolour #SamuelPalmer

#OTD 1809 The Examiner writes of William Blake's "wretched pictures, some of which are unintelligible allegory", and describes Blake as “an unfortunate lunatic, whose personal inoffensiveness secures him from confinement"

Apologies for the absence everyone I think I’ve reached the end of the road with Twitter. I shall continue to post Samuel Palmer’s amazing artistic legacy if things improve. Until then…it was great while it lasted! #byebyetwitter