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Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881, British, active in Italy (1837–39), The Rising Moon, 1857
- Title:
The Rising Moon
- Former Title(s):
Shepherd and Sheep (A Rising Moon)
- Additional Title(s):
An English Pastoral
A Rising Moon
Shepherd and Sheep
- Date:
- 1857
- Medium:
- Etching and drypoint, with plate tone on thick, smooth, cream wove paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 6 x 9 inches (15.3 x 22.8 cm), Plate: 6 x 9 inches (15.3 x 22.8 cm), Image: 4 5/8 x 7 9/16 inches (11.7 x 19.2 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, center on back: "N."; inscribed in graphite, lower right on back: "2 | I" ("2" is encircled)
Lettered lower left within image: "SP"
Signed in graphite, lower center below image: "Samuel Palmer"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1977.14.12162
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- animal art | barrel | church | clouds | cypress | genre subject | hat | hills | horizon line | house | landscape | moon | moonlight | mountain | night | pond | sheep | shepherd | staff | tower (building division) | trees | trough | village
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:31984
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