Art, literature & history
The Rising Moon, or An English Pastoral
1857
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- etching
- Dimensions
- plate: 17.8 x 25.2 cm (7 x 9 15/16 in.) sheet: 29 x 40.4 cm (11 7/16 x 15 7/8 in.) overall: 40.6 x 55.9 cm (16 x 22 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1947.7.91
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Samuel Palmer. The Rising Moon, or An English Pastoral. Samuel Palmer; This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the National Gallery of Art . Please see the Gallery's Open Access Policy .. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Samuel_Palmer,_The_Rising_Moon,_or_An_English_Pastoral,_1857,_NGA_33849.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
The Rising Moon, or An English Pastoral — Samuel Palmer. 1857.
Medium: etching.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): plate: 17.8 x 25.2 cm (7 x 9 15/16 in.) sheet: 29 x 40.4 cm (11 7/16 x 15 7/8 in.) overall: 40.6 x 55.9 cm (16 x 22 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1947.7.91. Rosenwald Collection.
Museum holding does not establish current display.
Source: National Gallery of Art, CC0 collection metadata, retrieved 9 September 2026.
Location checked Sep 9, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.