The Weary Ploughman

1858

Samuel Palmer

Artist, British, 1805 - 1881

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching on chine collé

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Jacob Kainen

  • Dimensions

    plate: 19.3 x 26.4 cm (7 5/8 x 10 3/8 in.)
    sheet: 32 x 44.6 cm (12 5/8 x 17 9/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2002.98.174

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Lister 1988, no. 8, State viii/viii

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Frank Baker Bristow [b. 1885], VA (Lugt 982a). Jacob Kainen, Washington, D.C., by 1988; gift to NGA, 2002.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2002

  • An Artist's Artists: Jacob Kainen's Collection from Rembrandt to David Smith, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2002-2003.

Bibliography

1968

  • Lister, Raymond. Samuel Palmer and His Etchings.New York: Watson-Gulptill, 1968.

1988

  • Lister, Raymond. Catalogue Raisonne of the Works of Samuel Palmer. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1988: no. 8, viii/viii

Inscriptions

lower center in plate: 4

Wikidata ID

Q76357191

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