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Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881, British, active in Italy (1837–39), The Cypress Grove, plate etched between ca. 1880 and 1883; impression printed in 1924

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Creator:

Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881
completed by Alfred Herbert Palmer, 1853–1931

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), Plate: 5 3/16 x 7 5/16 inches (13.2 x 18.6 cm), Image: 3 15/16 x 5 7/8 inches (10 x 15 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."

Collector’s mark: Frederick Landseer Maur Griggs (Lugt 760a)

Lettered lower left within image: "S. PALMER."

Credit Line:

Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Copyright Status:

Accession Number:

B1977.14.10908

Classification:

Prints

Collection:

Prints and Drawings

Subject Terms:

Associated People:

Publius Vergilius Maro (70 BC–19 BC), classical Roman poet

Access:

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Link:

https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:29334

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