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Samuel Palmer (British, 1805-1881)

Opening the Fold, or Early Morning, from Virgil's Ecloques (Lister 13)
A 'Trio' impression published by the Cotswold Gallery in 1926
initialled in pencil by Frank Short, F. L. Griggs and Martin Hardie 'FS FLG MH' (lower left)
etching on antique laid paper
12 x 17.5cm (image)

In 1924, F L Griggs contacted Samuel Palmer's son, A. H. Palmer, who supplied him with eight of his father's uncancelled plates for printing. In consultation with Frank Short, Professor of Engraving at the Royal College of Art and Martin Hardie, Keeper of Prints & Drawings at the Victoria & Albert Museum, he oversaw the printing of editions of 50 to 75 impressions from five of the plates. Each impression had an engraved triangle together with the Trio's (as A.H. Palmer called them) pencil initials in the lower margin. These were published by the Cotswold Gallery, London, to coincide with Hardie's ground-breaking exhibition Drawings, Etchings and Woodcuts by Samuel Palmer and Other Disciples of Blake at the Victoria & Albert Museum in 1926.

33.5 x 37.5cm (framed) Not examined out of frame.

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