The Homeward Star

by Samuel Palmer

$950 · Offered by John Windle Antiquarian

London: 1883. Single sheet, wove paper, 3 7/8 x 5 7/8 ins. image, 5 1/8 x 7 3/8 ins. plate. Fine. § Etching completed by the artist's son, published in the Eclogues of Virgil 1883. Lister 14, ii/iv. After some thought Palmer decided that he should go back to his favorite medium of etching for the illustrations. As he son notes, although he had given only 10 etchings to the world in almost 25 years, this was not light undertaking by a labor of love . It wasn't

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