Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881, British, active in Italy (1837–39), The Rising Moon, 1857
- Title:
- The Rising Moon
- Former Title(s):
- Rising Moon
- Additional Title(s):
An English Pastoral
A Rising Moon
Shepherd and Sheep
Shepherd and Sheep (A Rising Moon)- Date:
- 1857
- Materials & Techniques:
- Etching and drypoint, with plate tone on thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper with beige chine collé
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 9 x 12 3/16 inches (22.8 x 31 cm), Plate: 6 15/16 x 9 7/8 inches (17.7 x 25.1 cm), Image: 4 9/16 x 7 9/16 inches (11.6 x 19.2 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, lower left within plate marks: "A.7vi"; inscribed in graphite, lower right: "Martin Hardie" (underlined); inscribed in graphite, lower right [in different hand]: "H. 7. | Rising Moon"; inscribed in graphite, lower right: "A. 1573"; inscribed in graphite, lower left: "The Rising Moon"; inscribed in graphite, upper left on back: "[?M] 31" (encircled)
Lettered lower left within image: "S P"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1977.14.10914
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- animal art | barrel | church | clouds | cypress | genre subject | hat | hills | horizon line | house | landscape | moon | moonlight | mountain | night | pond | sheep | shepherd | staff | tower (building division) | trees | trough | village
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:29340
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