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- Title:
Opening the Fold
- Former Title(s):
Opening the Fold or Early Morning
- Additional Title(s):
Early Morning
- Date:
- 1880
- Medium:
- Etching and drypoint, with plate tone on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 7 15/16 x 10 5/8 inches (20.2 x 27 cm), Plate: 6 3/8 x 9 inches (16.2 x 22.9 cm), Image: 4 5/8 x 6 15/16 inches (11.7 x 17.6 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, lower right: "05/M [?17]/[?18] | [?48]" (very faint); inscribed in graphite, lower left: "a 13 iii"; inscribed in graphite, lower center: "opening the Fold; with the Remarque;"; inscribed in graphite, lower right: "[...] 8" (very faint)
Remarque consisting of a spray of harebells, lower left below image within plate marks
Lettered lower left within image: "S.PALMER. INV + FEC"; lettered lower center below image within plate marks: "Published by The Fine Art Society, 148, New Bond St. London, W. 1880."
Signed in graphite, lower right: "S.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:
- B1994.4.1304
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- animal art | birds | bugle | clouds | farming | genre subject | hat | herd | hills | horn | labor | landscape | light | mountains | pipe | river | roof | sheep | shepherd | sky | smoke | sunrise | thatch | town | trees
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
Note: The Study Room is open by appointment. Please visit the Study Room page on our website for more details. - Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:38916
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