Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881, British, active in Italy (1837–39)
Title:
Opening the Fold
Date:
1880
Materials & Techniques:
Etching and drypoint, with plate tone on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 7 15/16 x 10 5/8 inches (20.2 x 27 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, lower right: "05/M [?17]/[?18] | [?48]" (very faint); inscribed in graphite, lower left: "a 13 iii"; inscribed in graphite, lower center: "opening the Fold; with the Remarque;"; inscribed in graphite, lower right: "[...] 8" (very faint)
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:
B1994.4.1304
Classification:
Prints
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
town | landscape | hat | genre subject | bugle | farming | thatch | smoke | shepherd | light | trees | hills | mountains | horn | roof | river | clouds | sky | sheep | labor | sunrise | herd | animal art | birds | pipe
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Connections (Yale Center for British Art, 2011-05-26 - 2011-09-11)

The Romantic Print in Britain - Yale Center for British Art (Carnegie Museum of Art, 2004-02-14 - 2004-05-09)

The Romantic Landscape Prints - The Chiaroscuro of Nature (Yale Center for British Art, 2002-09-25 - 2002-12-29)

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)
Publications:
Rachel Campbell-Johnston, Mysterious wisdom, the life and work of Samuel Palmer , Bloomsbury, London; New York, 2011, pp. 322, 328, NJ18 P19 C36 2011 (YCBA)
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:38916