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Samuel
Palmer
(Newington,
south London 1805 – 1881 Redhill, near
Reigate, Surrey)
The Vine or Plumpy Bacchus
"Upper"
"Lower"
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The
"upper" and "lower" etchings
as they
appear
on the plate |
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The
Vine (or Plumpy
Bacchus)
Alexander 5 iv/iv, Lister 5 iv/iv
302 x 217 mm (plate); 89 x 128 mm (upper image), 58 x 130 mm (lower image); 372
x 269 mm (sheet)
Etchings,
1851-52. Two images on a single plate. Published
state, with the letters, only issue, in Songs & Ballads of Shakespeare illustrated by the Etching
Club, 1853, edition of 225.
On
laid india paper (which would appear to have been
relaid). Residual light stain.
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Additional
Information about the Print
The
rarest of Palmer’s plates, The Vine illustrates
the Song in Act 2, Scene 7 of Antony & Cleopatra.
Come
thou monarch of the vine,
Plumpy Bacchus, with pink eyne:
In thy vats our cares be drown’d;
With thy grapes our hairs be crown’d;
Cup us till the world go round;
Cup us till the world go round!
The
minutes of The Etching Club for the meeting on
25 April 1851 record Palmer’s “upper” as
being unanimously accepted for inclusion. |
