The Weary Ploughman

Artist/Maker Samuel Palmer (British, 1805 - 1881)

Datebegun 1858 (published 1865)

MediumEtching on chine appliqué

DimensionsComposition: 5 3/16 × 7 15/16 in. (13.2 × 20.2 cm) Plate: 7 9/16 × 10 3/8 in. (19.2 × 26.4 cm) Sheet: 12 5/8 × 17 11/16 in. (32.1 × 44.9 cm)

Credit LineGift of William G. Roehrick, Class of 1934, H1971

Object number1984.455

Not on view

Collections

European Art

Additional Details

Alternate Titles The Herdsman
Tardus Bubulcus

Exhibition History 1992
Clinton, NY (Fred L. Emerson Gallery, Hamilton College). "Rebels & Romantics: Some British Moderns and Their Work," June 6 - September 6, 1992 (cat. no. 33).

1986
Clinton, NY (Fred L. Emerson Gallery, Hamilton College). Summer 1986.

1985
Clinton, NY. (Fred L. Emerson Gallery, Hamilton College). Summer 1985.

Provenance 1984: Hamilton College (Fred L. Emerson Gallery), by gift of William G. Roehrick;
1984: William G. Roehrick, by purchase at auction from Christie's, New York.

Markings on mount in pencil at lower center: "HERDSMAN .M.H.S VIII";
in pencil on verso at lower center: "14"

Published References David Lewis, ed., REBELS & ROMANTICS: SOME BRITISH MODERNS AND THEIR WORK (exh. cat. Clinton, NY, Fred L. Emerson Gallery, 1992), [checklist] 64.

Published in this state in a SELECTION OF ETCHINGS BY THE ETCHING CLUB, 1865.

Inscribed Inscribed in margin in typeset at lower center: "4"