The Herdsman's Cottage

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The Herdsman's Cottage
The Herdsman's Cottage
Artist/Maker (British, 1805 - 1881)
Date1850 (published 1872)
MediumEtching on paper
DimensionsComposition: 3 13/16 × 3 in. (9.7 × 7.6 cm) Plate: 4 7/8 × 4 1/16 in. (12.4 × 10.3 cm) Sheet: 14 3/8 × 10 3/8 in. (36.5 × 26.4 cm)
Credit LineGift of William G. Roehrick, Class of 1934, H1971
Object number1984.453
Not on view
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Additional Details

Exhibition History 1985
Clinton, NY (Fred L. Emerson Gallery, Gallery I, 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.

Signature Initialed "SP" in plate, outside composition, at lower left.
Inscribed "Sunrise by Samuel Palmer / No 35" at lower center on sheet in pencil; "L.3" at lower left in pencil; "26D" on verso at lower left in pencil; ".17" on verso at upper center in pencil; "4" on verso at lower right in pencil.
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