Samuel Palmer, R.W.S.

Etching, 1879, initialled with printers' names F.S., M.H., F.L.G, seventh (final) state, from the edition of 75, on laid paper

Graham Sutherland, by whom gifted to Wilfrid A. Evill, by whom bequeathed to Honor Frost in 1963

Brighton, Brighton Art Gallery, The Wilfrid Evill Memorial Exhibition, June -August 1965, cat. no.128 (as Sunset at Shoreham, Kent).

With wide margins, trimmed with uneven edges, in good condition apart from pale scattered foxing, slight surface dirt recto and verso, slight creasing along upper edge of sheet, uneven backboard-staining, pale blue ink (?) stains in upper sheet verso, a band of brown paper tap along upper and lower edges of sheet verso, framed.
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