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Samuel Palmer

The Weary Ploughman, 1858

Description

Maker

  • Samuel Palmer, 1805-1881, British

Title

The Weary Ploughman

Year

1858

Medium

etching

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • etching

Supports

  • Heavy weight cream wove paper

Dimensions

Plate: 19.2 x 26.4 cm (7 9/16 x 10 3/8 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Recto: Inscribed in pencil within plate-mark, LR: 'Samuel Palmer'; inscribed in pencil outside of plate-mark, UL: 'R'; UR: '£17-17/-'; LL: 'Is not this Up to A? Not quite [underlined] I think in some aspects-; LR: 'Touched proof in progress, former state of sky / from the Howard Mansfield Collection'.

Type

  • Works on Paper,
  • Prints

Credit

Museum Works of Art Fund

Object Number

47.655

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

The Landscape Tradition in Printmaking

January 19 - April 22, 1990

Recent Acquisitions of the Print Room

September 28 - October 30, 1948

Use

The images on this website can enable discovery and collaboration and support new scholarship, and we encourage their use. This object is in the public domain (CC0 1.0). This object is The Weary Ploughman with the accession number of 47.655. To request a higher resolution file, please submit an online request.

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