Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881, British, active in Italy (1837–39)completed by Alfred Herbert Palmer, 1853–1931, British
Title:
The Cypress Grove
Date:
plate etched between ca. 1880 and 1883; impression printed in 1924
Materials & Techniques:
Etching and drypoint, with plate tone on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 10 15/16 x 12 1/16 inches (27.8 x 30.7 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, lower left below plate marks: "A.15iii"; inscribed in graphite, lower left: "Illustration to Virgil's Fifth Eclogue. The Cypress Grove | [?opposite] p.55."; inscribed in graphite in different hand, lower left: "Begun on copper by Samuel Palmer. | Completed for publn. by A H. Palmer"; inscribed in graphite, lower right (to label stamp of "DHP" in monogram): "Dover's House Press. | printed by F. L. Griggs. | Martin Hardie | MH."
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Copyright Undetermined
Accession Number:
B1977.14.10908
Classification:
Prints
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
nymphs | figures | mountain | night | twilight | oxen | volcano | literary theme | stars | cows | cypress | religious and mythological subject | geology | science | astronomy | waterfall | mourners | trees | cattle | grove | death