Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881, British, active in Italy (1837–39)
Title:
Opening the Fold
Date:
plate etched in 1880; impression printed in 1920
Materials & Techniques:
Etching and drypoint, with plate tone (printed in brown ink by Sir Frank Short) on thin, smooth, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 6 15/16 x 10 1/2 inches (17.6 x 26.7 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, lower left below plate marks: "A. 13 vi"; inscribed in graphite in different hand, lower left below plate marks: "Frank Short. imp. 27.11.20"; inscribed in graphite, lower center [in different hand?]: "Etching to illustrate "The Eclogues of Virgil", by S. Palmer. 1883. | One of 2 or 3 proofs printed by Sir Frank Short - in brown ink | [?not]-wiped | not as by S. P. who used black + insisted on every speck of white showing. M.H." ("in brown ink | [?not]-wiped" underlined; from "not as by S.P. who...", inscription is written vertically up the right edge of the sheet); inscribed in brown ink, vertically up the left edge of the sheet on the verso: "Whole duty of man. pag: 13A. Hooker's Ecclesiasticall [sic] polity. h : 5. s : 72. | Montague's new Gagg for an old Goole. pag: 273. | Spark's devotion. pag 195. in ye disquisition upon ye fast in Lent."
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
The Creative Printmaker (Yale Center for British Art, 1985-07-09 - 1985-09-01)The Creative Printmaker (Joseph and Margaret Muscarelle Museum of Art, 1986-03-05 - 1986-04-20)