Palmer (Samuel)
The Morning of Life,
£1,800
London, The Etching Club, 1872.
Samuel Palmer (1805-1881) originally produced this plate in 1860-61 as classical scene to illustrate Virgil’s Aeneid, provisionally titled ‘Hercules and Cacus’. However, his frustration with the outcome led to extensive reworking, including expanding the engraved field, until he arrived at this rural idyll with shepherds dipping sheep in a stream and boys gathering fallen apples. The plate had been supplied by the Etching Club and, after various titles before settling on ‘The Morning of Life’, was eventually printed by Frederick Goulding for publication in ‘Etchings of the Art Union of London’ in 1872.
Provenance: ex-collection of Mattei Radev (1927-2009), given by Eardley Knollys (1902-1991), artist, critic, and art dealer, member of the Bloomsbury Group, inherited from the music critic and author, Edward Sackville-West, 5th Baron Sackville (1901-1965)..
145 by 215mm (5¾ by 8½ inches).
etching on laid India paper on a smooth and stiff wove paper support, the last and only published state, from an edition of 450, signed twice in the plate, lower left within and without the image, minor marginal toning and a few isolated spots, none affecting the image, the plate number slightly abraded, lower right, [Lister 10, 7th state; Alexander 10],
| Dimensions | 14521558 cm |
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| Dimensions | 145 by 215mm (5¾ by 8½ inches). |
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