{"meta":{"version":"2.1","_links":{"self":{"href":"https://api.vam.ac.uk/v2/object/O1023398"},"collection_page":{"href":"https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1023398/"}},"images":{"_primary_thumbnail":"https://framemark.vam.ac.uk/collections/2011EN0918/full/!100,100/0/default.jpg","_iiif_image":"https://framemark.vam.ac.uk/collections/2011EN0918/","_alt_iiif_image":[],"imageResolution":"high","_images_meta":[{"assetRef":"2011EN0918","copyright":"© Victoria and Albert Museum, London","sensitiveImage":false}]},"see_also":{"_iiif_pres":"https://iiif.vam.ac.uk/collections/O1023398/manifest.json","_alt_iiif_pres":[]}},"record":{"systemNumber":"O1023398","accessionNumber":"E.457-1953","objectType":"Etching","titles":[{"title":"The Lonely Tower","type":"assigned by artist"}],"summaryDescription":"","physicalDescription":"Etching of a night scene: two shepherds guarding sheep gaze at a tower standing high on a distant hill, which has a solitary lit window.  Starlight and radiance from a crescent moon low on the horizon illuminate the landscape and its human and animal occupants.","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Samuel Palmer","id":"A2333"},"association":{"text":"artist","id":"AAT25103"},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"printing ink","id":"AAT187371"},{"text":"paper","id":"x30308"},{"text":"opaque white pigment","id":"AAT13724"}],"techniques":[{"text":"etching","id":"AAT53241"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Etching print with white heightening on paper","categories":[{"text":"Prints","id":"THES48903"}],"styles":[{"text":"Romantic","id":"AAT172863"}],"collectionCode":{"text":"PDP","id":"THES48595"},"images":["2011EN0918"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"LVLC (VA)","id":"THES49171"},"free":"","case":"MB2A","shelf":"DR77","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"print","id":""}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"Britain","id":"x32019"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"1879","earliest":"1879-01-01","latest":"1879-12-31"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[{"object":{"text":"E.1895-1919","id":"O72120"},"association":""},{"object":{"text":"29325:16","id":"O975297"},"association":""}],"creditLine":"","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Height","value":"19.1","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"Plate","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"25.4","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"Plate","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"Taken from the dimensions given in the Victoria and Albert Museum Catalogue of the Prints, Drawings, Paintings & Photographs Collections and converted from inches to centimetres.","marksAndInscriptions":[{"content":"'Sam. Palmer'","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"","transliteration":"","type":"","note":"Signed"},{"content":"'3rd P. For touching  Canvas only think of angle  Private Press'","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"","transliteration":"","type":"","note":"Inscribed in pencil"},{"content":"'Marden Ash Gilbert'","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"","transliteration":"","type":"","note":"Inscribed on the back"},{"content":"'Third working proof, touched, with notes on margin by Saml. Palmer'","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"","transliteration":"","type":"","note":"Inscribed on the mount"}],"objectHistory":"From 'Il Penseroso' by John Milton. This etching was formerly in the collection of Sir Frank Short, R. A., P.R.E., R.I.","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Samuel Palmer. 'The Lonely Tower'. Two shepherds guarding sheep gaze at a tower standing high on a distant hill. England, 1879.","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"<u>Catalogue of an Exhibition of Drawings, Etchings & Woodcuts by Samuel Palmer and other Disciples of William Blake October 20 - December 31, 1926</u>. London : Published under the authority of the Board of Education, 1926. Publication No. 178 E.I.D."},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"<u>Catalogue of an Exhibition of Drawings, Etchings & Woodcuts by Samuel Palmer and other Disciples of William Blake October 20 - December 31, 1926</u>. London : Published under the authority of the Board of Education, 1926. Publication No. 178 E.I.D. pp.83-84."},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"<u>Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings Accessions 1953 </u> London: HMSO, 1963"}],"production":"Attribution note: Second state, touched proof.","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[{"text":"moon","id":"x35996"},{"text":"towers","id":"AAT4847"},{"text":"night scenes","id":"x31460"},{"text":"shepherds","id":"AAT25617"},{"text":"sheep","id":"x30093"}],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[],"partNumbers":["E.457-1953"],"accessionNumberNum":"457","accessionNumberPrefix":"E","accessionYear":1953,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2026-03-02","recordCreationDate":"2009-06-30","availableToBook":false}}