Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881, British, active in Italy (1837–39), Christmas, 1877
- Title:
Christmas
- Additional Title(s):
Folding the Last Sheep
- Date:
- 1877
- Medium:
- Etching and drypoint, with plate tone on thin, slightly textured, cream laid paper (Japanese paper)
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 8 3/4 x 6 7/16 inches (22.2 x 16.4 cm), Plate: 4 13/16 x 4 3/16 inches (12.2 x 10.6 cm), Image: 3 15/16 x 3 3/16 inches (10 x 8.1 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, lower left below plate marks: "A 4 iv | See under [arrow] as to printing"; inscribed in graphite, lower right below plate marks: "Coll: AH. Palmer | H | MH"; inscribed in graphite, lower left: "Old Japanese paper from F Goulding 1877 | S."
Lettered lower right within image: "S PALMER" (very indistinct); lettered, lower right within image: "S. Palmer"; lower left below image: "S. Palmer."; lettered lower center below image: " "Christmas" | From Bampfylde's Sonnet."
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1977.14.10905
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- architectural subject | barn | children | Christmas | cottage | dog (animal) | doorway | farm | interior | moon | night | sheep | thatch | trees | window
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:29331
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Rachel Campbell-Johnston, Mysterious wisdom, the life and work of Samuel Palmer , Bloomsbury, London; New York, 2011, p. 243, NJ18 P19 C36 2011 (YCBA) [YCBA]
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