Palmer (Samuel)
The Sleeping Shepherd, Early Morning,
£1,950
London, The Etching Club, 1857.
included in ‘Etchings for the Art Union of London’, in 1857, Samuel Palmer (1805-1881) had returned to this idyllic pastoral motif several times going to sketches in the 1820s, revisiting the theme in Shoreham in the mid-1830s, and again in a watercolour in 1854.
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)..
125 by 95mm (5 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 in the plate, outside the image, with plate no.5 lower centre, adhered in the margins to a thin card slip-mount, slight marginal toning, [Lister 6, 4th state; Alexander 6],
| Dimensions | 1259553 cm |
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| Dimensions | 125 by 95mm (5 by 3¾ inches). |
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