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The Sepulchre: Illustration for Virgil's Eighth Eclogue,
1872–1876
Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881; born Newington, England; died Redhill, England
x1947-183
Information
Title
The Sepulchre: Illustration for Virgil's Eighth Eclogue
Dates
1872–1876
Maker
Medium
Pen and black ink, grey wash, with touches of white gouache
Dimensions
17.4 x 25.5 cm. (6 7/8 x 10 1/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Frank Jewett Mather Jr.
Object Number
x1947-183
Inscription
in graphite, on verso [in artist's hand]: Since 1st filling in grid - | Feb 17, 76 - Mord. 2 to 1 - 1 hour | March 3 - -do. 2 to 1 - 1 hour | Mar: 27 - 3 to 1 - 1 hour | Mar 31 - 4 to 1 - 1 hour
in graphite, on verso upper right: Allen Hook's vehicle for Watercolours DEXTRINE or roasted starch 23 St. Paul's ch yard | Gillett's Gillot's steel pens--engraving pen 389
in graphite, on verso lower left: 8th Ecl--While the troubled mourn...
Culture
Type
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
- 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
