Harvest under a Crescent Moon

Details

SAMUEL PALMER (1805-1881)
Harvest under a Crescent Moon
wood-engraving, on folded Japanese vellum, circa 1826, with text, one of 50 impressions printed at the Temple Sheen Press, 1932, in generally good condition
Plate: 1 1⁄8 x 3 1⁄8 in. (29 x 79 mm.)
Sheet: 4 5⁄8 x 4 ¼ in. (117 x 108 mm.)

Provenance

With a note stating the work was given by Mr. Arthur K. Sabin

Literature

Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of Samuel Palmer, Lister, P1

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Lot Essay

Letter states:
Harvest.
Original wood-engraving by Samuel Palmer
Given by Mr. A.K. Sabin (also to British Mus. & Ashmolean)
December 1944

See The Studio, Dec. 1944, When the engraving is wrongly attributed to Welby Sherman (see correspondence).

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