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The Chamber Idyll

1831

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The story

Calvert, one of the Ancients who idolized William Blake, made this his last and arguably finest print. Moonlight falls into a cottage bedroom as a woman undresses before a nude man seated on the bed, while outside sheep rest and a bull stands under the stars.

Source, Romantic Circles

Object details

Title: The Chamber Idyll
Artist: Edward Calvert
Date: 1831
Culture: Not recorded
Medium: Wood engraving
Object type: Prints
Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Credit line: Image source The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Open Access. License Public domain (Met Open Access, isPublicDomain=true).
Object number: EFA.0563
Original image: 2764 × 1755 px
Source record: View on The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Open Access
License evidence: See the license

Cite this object

Edward Calvert. The Chamber Idyll. 1831. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Image source The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Open Access. License Public domain (Met Open Access, isPublicDomain=true). In The Secret Cabinet, https://thesecretcabinet.com/object/ea0563/