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

Not on view

Collections

European Art

Additional Details

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. 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.