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SAMUEL
PALMER
Newington, London 1805 – 1881 Redhill,
Surrey
Christmas or Folding the last Sheep
124 x 103 mm (bevelled platemark); 100 x 80
mm
Original
etching, 1850. Not published till 1882, when
lettered in the lower plate border.
First
published edition, issued by A H Palmer in
Samuel Palmer. A Memoir, 1882.
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The
image was inspired by lines from a sonnet
by John Codrington Bampfield (1754-96).
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Old Christmas comes to close the wanèd
year,
And aye the shepherd’s heart to make right glad:
Who, when his teeming flocks are homeward had,
To blazing hearth repairs, and nut brown beer;
And views, well-pleas’d the ruddy prattlers dear
Hug the grey mongrel ... |
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GERTRUDE
HERMES R.E.,
S.W.E.
Bickley, Kent 1901 – 1983 London
Mistletoe
105 x 92 mm
Original
colour linocut, 1947.
Signed
in pencil and inscribed Greetings to
you.
Printed
from two blocks in black and moss green,
on thin japan paper.
Sent
by Gertrude Hermes as a Christmas ‘card’.
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LESLIE
JONES
Born Tremadoc, Caernarvonshire 1934
Snow Shower in Ravello
275 x 346 mm
Original
etching and aquatint.
A
colleague of Andrew Freeth at St Martin’s
School of Art in the 1960’s. Signed
in pencil, entitled and dedicated To
Andrew Freeth.
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Jones
was a Prix de Rome Scholar in Engraving 1958-60.
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