Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881, British, active in Italy (1837–39), The Cypress Grove, between 1880 and 1883
- Title:
- The Cypress Grove
- Date:
- between 1880 and 1883
- Materials & Techniques:
- Etching and drypoint, with plate tone on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 10 1/8 x 14 1/8 inches (25.7 x 35.9 cm), Plate: 5 3/16 x 7 3/8 inches (13.2 x 18.7 cm), Image: 3 15/16 x 5 7/8 inches (10 x 15 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, lower center: "The Cypress Grove. 1st State." (underlined); inscribed in graphite in a different hand [?], lower center: "5th Eclogue of Virgil"; inscribed in graphite, lower right: "L | F"
Watermark on sheet: "W KING"
Lettered lower left within image: "S. PALMER."
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, The G. Allen Smith Collection, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1994.4.1305
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- astronomy | cattle | cows | cypress | death | figures | genre subject | geology | grove | mountain | mourners | night | nymphs | oxen | science | stars | trees | twilight | volcano | waterfall
- Associated Places:
- Daphni | Europe | Greece
- Associated People:
- Publius Vergilius Maro (70 BC–19 BC), classical Roman poet
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:38918
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