drawing;
print study
- Museum number
- 1991,1109.26
- Description
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Eclogue IV, 'Thy Very Cradle Quickens', illustration to Virgil's 'Eclogues'; seated woman holding child on her lap, another figure reclining behind her, in a wooded landscape, cattle grazing under trees beyond. c.1876
Graphite, pen and black ink and grey wash, touched with white; on card
- Production date
- 1876 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 172 millimetres
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Width: 255 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- This illustrates lines from Eclogue IV in 'An English Version of the Eclogues of Virgil', 1883.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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1992/3 Dec-Jan, BM, Samuel Palmer (ex cat.)
2011 April-June, Walsall, New Art Gallery, Towards the Light ...
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Eclogues (IV)
- Acquisition date
- 1991
- Acquisition notes
- By descent from the artist to Alfred Herbert Palmer (1853-1931); Vernon Wethered; by descent to his daughter Maud, by whom bequeathed to the Museum, 1991
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1991,1109.26