Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881, British, active in Italy (1837–39), Christmas, 1850
- Title:
Christmas
- Former Title(s):
Christmas or Folding the Last Sheep
- Additional Title(s):
Folding the Last Sheep
- Date:
- 1850
- Medium:
- Etching and drypoint, with plate tone on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 11 13/16 x 10 1/4 inches (30 x 26.1 cm), Plate: 4 7/8 x 4 inches (12.4 x 10.1 cm), Image: 3 7/8 x 3 1/8 inches (9.9 x 8 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, lower left: "Christmas" (underlined); inscribed in graphite, lower left: "14x19"; inscribed in graphite, lower left of back: "Back"; inscribed in graphite, lower center of back: "1965.1.4"
Collector's mark: Unidentified, cross, H G (not in Lugt)
Lettered lower right within image: "S PALMER" (very indistinct); lettered lower right within image: "S. Palmer."
Signed in graphite, lower right below image within plate marks: "Samuel Palmer"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, The G. Allen Smith Collection, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1994.4.1295
- 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:38899
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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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