Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881, British, active in Italy (1837–39)
Title:
The Vine
Date:
1852
Materials & Techniques:
Etching, drypoint, and plate tone, with chine collé on thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 12 13/16 x 9 1/4 inches (32.5 x 23.5 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Lettered in brown ink above upper image: "THE VINE . | SONG IN ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA _ ACT 2, SCENE 7."; lettered in orange ink below upper image: " SAMUEL PALMER"; lettered in orange ink between upper and lower images: "COME, THOU MONARCH OF THE VINE, | PLUMPY BACCHUS, WITH PINK EYNE: | IN THY VATS OUR CARES BE DROWN'D; | WITH THY GRAPES OUR HAIRS BE CROWN'D; | CUP US, TILL THE WORLD GO ROUND; | CUP US, TILL THE WORLD GO ROUND!"; lettered in orange ink below lower image: "SAMUEL 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:
B1994.4.1296
Classification:
Prints
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
monarch | cherubs | light | vine | trees | figures | food | foliage | cloak | ladder | baskets | vat | landscape | cape | grapes | leaves | wine | specific aspects, allegorical aspects of Bacchus; Bacchus as a patron | religious and mythological subject | literary theme | plays by William Whitehead (bap. 1715, d. 1785), poet and playwright | Antony and Cleopatra, play by William Shakespeare