Evening

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WELBY SHERMAN (fl. 1827-1836)
AFTER SAMUEL PALMER (1805-1881)
Evening
mezzotint, on card-like wove paper, without watermark, 1834, Lister's second, final, state, with letters, a fine impression, exceptionally rare (no examples are thought to have appeared at auction in the last four decades), printed and published by the artist, London, with margins, framed
Plate: 8 5⁄8 x 9 5⁄8 in. (220 x 244 mm.)
Sheet: 9 7⁄8 x 11.1.4 in. (252 x 286 mm.)

Literature

Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of Samuel Palmer, Lister, P3

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Lot Essay

Wood-engraver, mezzotint and line engraver, little is known about Welby Sherman aside from the fact that he was a friend and pupil of Samuel Palmer and belonged to "The Ancients," the artistic brotherhood based at Shoreham, Kent in the late 1820s and early 1830s. According to the British Museum, this mezzotint is the only survivor of an abortive project to make a series of mezzotints after Palmer's work in the manner of David Lucas's series after Constable.

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