The Sleeping Shepherd - Early Morning – Works

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

Datec. 1854-57

MediumEtching on chine appliqué

DimensionsComposition: 3 3/4 × 3 1/16 in. (9.5 × 7.8 cm) Plate: 4 7/8 × 4 1/16 in. (12.4 × 10.3 cm) Sheet: 14 7/16 × 10 1/2 in. (36.7 × 26.7 cm)

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

Object number1984.454

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Exhibition History 12024-2025
Clinton, NY. The Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art, Hamilton College. "Menagerie: Animals in Art from the Wellin Museum," September 7, 2024 –June 8, 2025 (no cat.).

992
Clinton, NY (Fred L. Emerson Gallery, Hamilton College). "Rebels & Romantics: Some British Moderns and Their Work," June 6 - September 6, 1992 (cat. no. 34).

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;
?: William G. Roehrick, by purchase at auction from Christie's, New York.

Markings Marks: none noted.

Published References W. Vaughan, E. Barker and C. Harrison, Samuel Palmer, 1805-1881: visi (London, The British Museum Press, 2005), p. [need to supply]

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.

Signature Signed "Samuel Palmer." in plate at lower left below composition.

Inscribed "5" in plate outside composition at lower center; "The Sleeping Shepard / 3.0 State." at lower left margin in pencil; "[illegibile]" on verso at lower left in pencil.