Art, literature & history
The Rising Moon
ca. 1855
- Dating
- Approximate date range
- Medium
- Etching; sixth or between six and seventh state of nine
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 4 5/8 × 7 5/8 in. (11.8 × 19.3 cm) Mount: 11 7/8 × 8 1/2 in. (30.2 × 21.6 cm)
- Collection no.
- 2018.898.1
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Samuel Palmer. The Rising Moon. Samuel Palmer; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Gift of Margaret Murray and Michael Blodget, 2018. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
About this artwork
The Rising Moon — Samuel Palmer. ca. 1855.
Medium: Etching; sixth or between six and seventh state of nine. Dimensions: Sheet: 4 5/8 × 7 5/8 in. (11.8 × 19.3 cm) Mount: 11 7/8 × 8 1/2 in. (30.2 × 21.6 cm).
Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.
Credit line: Gift of Margaret Murray and Michael Blodgett, 2018.
This is a museum catalogue record, not a current-display assertion.
Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.
Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.