Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881, British, active in Italy (1837–39)
Title:
The Homeward Star
Date:
etching begun ca. 1880; impression printed in 1924
Materials & Techniques:
Etching and drypoint, with plate tone on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 10 13/16 x 12 15/16 inches (27.4 x 32.8 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, lower left below plate marks: "A 14 iii"; inscribed in graphite, lower left in Frank Landseer Maur Griggs' hand: "One of seven impressions after the lettering + steel facing had been removed | Printed at Dover's [sic] House, Campden, in May 1924 | F.L.G."; inscribed in black ink, [in different hand?]: "note by FL. Griggs, A.R.A, R[?E]."
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1977.14.10920
Classification:
Prints
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
cup | star | figures | meal | hats | cattle | buildings | eating | people | sky | landscape | goats | town | astronomy | food | bushes | men | apples | light | literary theme | science | drinking | sheep | bench | chestnut | moon | gathering | birds | fruit | cows | mountains | table | village | night | oxen | smoke | woman | chimney (architectural element) | west
Currently On View:
Not on view
Publications:
Rachel Campbell-Johnston, Mysterious wisdom, the life and work of Samuel Palmer , Bloomsbury, London; New York, 2011, pp. 322-3, NJ18 P19 C36 2011 (YCBA)