Image

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

Credit

Museum Works of Art Fund

Object Number

47.655

Exhibition History

The Landscape Tradition in Printmaking

January 19 - April 22, 1990

Recent Acquisitions of the Print Room

September 28 - October 30, 1948

Use

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