Palmer (Samuel)
The Skylark,
£1,500
London, The Etching Club, 1857.
Samuel Palmer (1805-1881) originally produced this plate in 1850 as one of two compositions for the Art Union’s proposed series of ‘Sonnets’. However, that publication never appeared as intended, but this plate was eventually included in ‘Etchings for the Art Union of London’, in 1857. It was only Palmer’s second attempt at etching, which he came to relatively late in life, and was based on a sketch from his Shoreham period in the early 1830s.
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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)..
120 by 95mm (4¾ by 3¾ inches).
etching on laid India paper on a smooth and stiff wove paper support, the only published state, from an edition of 500, signed twice in the plate, lower left within and without the image, with plate no.17 lower centre, a damp-stain to the lower left corner of the wide margins, and a band of paper accretions from a previous old mount in the upper margin, all well outside the plate, [Lister 2, 7th state; Alexander 2],
| Dimensions | 1209543 cm |
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| Dimensions | 120 by 95mm (4¾ by 3¾ inches). |
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