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Moeris and Galatea: Illustration for Virgil's Ninth Eclogue,
after 1872
Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881; born Newington, England; died Redhill, England
x1947-182
Information
Title
Moeris and Galatea: Illustration for Virgil's Ninth Eclogue
Dates
after 1872
Maker
Medium
Pen and black ink, gray wash, heightened in white, with touches of black chalk
Dimensions
image: 10.2 x 15.2 cm. (4 x 6 in.)
sheet: 13.9 x 19.4 cm. (5 1/2 x 7 5/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Frank Jewett Mather Jr.
Object Number
x1947-182
Inscription
on verso: 1st design for 9th [in artist's hand]
Culture
Type
Materials
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Subject
- A. H. Palmer, Catalogue of an exhibition of drawings, etchings & woodcuts by Samuel Palmer and other disciples of William Blake, October 20-December 31, 1926, (London: Pub. under the authority of the Board of education, 1926)., no. 100
- "Recent accessions," Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 7, no. 1 (1948): p. 7., p. 7
- The work of Samuel Palmer, 1805-1881: a loan exhibition, February 1st through February 26th, 1949 [at] Durlacher Brothers, (New York: Durlacher Bros., 1949)., no. 25
- William L. Pressley, Jr., "Samuel Palmer and the pastoral convention", Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 28, no. 2 (1969): p. 22-37., p. 22ff.; p. 34 (illus.)
- Barbara T. Ross, "Drawings by Samuel Palmer in the Art Museum", Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 29, no. 2 (1970): p. 37-42., p. 38, cat. no. 5
- Raymond Lister, Catalogue raisonné of the works of Samuel Palmer, (Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988)., p. 153
