Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881, British, active in Italy (1837–39)
Title:
The Lonely Tower
Date:
1879
Materials & Techniques:
Etching and drypoint, with plate tone on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:
Sheet: 10 3/8 x 14 1/4 inches (26.4 x 36.2 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, upper left to upper right: "Upper sky not at all darker than this - | In landscape below no alterations in the proportions of dark from the present state of plate | One inpression should go to Club [?on] rather a lighter [?key] altogether - "; inscribed in graphite, center right: "Boughs tree | [...] for old"; inscribed in graphite, lower left below plate marks; "A 12 iv"; inscribed in graphite, lower left: "A.H.P. Private Press - | 5th P. B - wiped carefully."; inscribed in graphite, lower right: "C"; inscribed in graphite, lower left: "For Touching"; inscribed in graphite, lower right: "The Lonely Tower. MH."; inscribed in graphite, center on back: "3" (inverted); inscribed in graphite, lower left on back: "'The Lonely Tower' from 'Il Penseroso' | publ'd by the <Etching Club, 1880> | Plate [?destd.] See [...] [...] [...]"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Wiltshire | Stonehenge | Europe | England | United Kingdom
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
The Romantic Print in Britain - Yale Center for British Art (Carnegie Museum of Art, 2004-02-14 - 2004-05-09)The Romantic Landscape Prints - The Chiaroscuro of Nature (Yale Center for British Art, 2002-09-25 - 2002-12-29)
Publications:
Rachel Campbell-Johnston, Mysterious wisdom, the life and work of Samuel Palmer , Bloomsbury, London; New York, 2011, p. 319, NJ18 P19 C36 2011 (YCBA)