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Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881, British, active in Italy (1837–39), The Vine, 1852
- Title:
The Vine
- Additional Title(s):
Plumpy Bacchus
- Date:
- 1852
- Medium:
- Etching and drypoint, retouched with graphite on thick, smooth, beige wove paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 11 13/16 x 8 1/2 inches (30 x 21.6 cm), Plate: 11 13/16 x 8 1/2 inches (30 x 21.6 cm), Image: 8 7/16 x 5 1/16 inches (21.4 x 12.8 cm), Image: 3 1/2 x 5 1/16 inches (8.9 x 12.8 cm), Image: 2 1/8 x 4 5/8 inches (5.4 x 11.8 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, lower left to lower right: "I have only two early proofs of this plate, before the lower subject was vignetted. Each has the stain in the paper. This is one of the proofs | + I think the earlier of the two. Apparently it was worked on white [sic] the paper was damp from the press. AHP"; inscribed in graphite, lower left: "A. 5i"; inscribed in graphite, lower center to lower right: "Colln. A H. Palmer. | Martin Hardie. | M.H."
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1977.14.10936
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- baskets | cape | cherubs | cloak | figures | foliage | food | grapes | ladder | landscape | leaves | light | monarch | religious and mythological subject | specific aspects, allegorical aspects of Bacchus; Bacchus as a patron | trees | vat | vine | wine
- Associated People:
- Shakespeare, William (1564–1616), playwright and poet
Bacchus - Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:49562
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