The Cypress Grove - plate 14 from "An English Version of the Eclogues of Virgil" by Samuel Palmer

The Cypress Grove - plate 14 from An English Version of the Eclogues of Virgil by Samuel Palmer

The Cypress Grove - plate 14 from "An English Version of the Eclogues of Virgil"

Samuel Palmer

Title

The Cypress Grove - plate 14 from "An English Version of the Eclogues of Virgil"

 
Artist

Samuel Palmer

  1805 - 1881 (biography)
Year
c. 1880  
Technique
etching (finished by A.H. Palmer, artist's son) 
Image Size
3 15/16 x 5 15/16" etched surface 
Signature
signed in plate, lower left 
Edition Size
unnumbered, from the first state before text 
Annotations
 
Reference
Boerner 15; Lister E15 
Paper
antique-white wove 
State
i/iv 
Publisher
i/iv 
Inventory ID
JEJA149 
Price
SOLD
Description
When this image was published in "The Eclogues of Virgil: an English Version", it included text written in script across the bottom: "Untimely lost, and by cruel death / The Nymphs their Daphnis mourned with falt'ring breath." "Cypress Grove" is one of three prints that Palmer was working on when he died. They were partially complete and the artist's son, A.H.Palmer, finished the plates based on his father's instructions, given in the last weeks of his life.