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Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881, British, active in Italy (1837–39), Christmas, 1850
- Title:
Christmas
- Additional Title(s):
Folding the Last Sheep
- Date:
- 1850
- Medium:
- Etching with plate tone on thick, smooth, cream wove paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 10 3/16 x 8 1/2 inches (25.8 x 21.6 cm), Plate: 4 7/8 x 4 9/16 inches (12.4 x 11.6 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 ii"; inscribed in graphite, lower right: "H"; inscribed in graphite, lower right: "Colln. A. H. Palmer. | Martin Hardie | M.H." ("A. H. Palmer." and "Martin Hardie" underlined); inscribed in graphite, lower left of verso: "Martin Nardie [sic]. (required for Exhibition)"
Lettered lower right within image: "S PALMER" (very indistinct); lettered lower right within image: "S. Palmer."
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1977.14.10907
- 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:29333
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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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