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

Art of Europe

Published ReferencesDavid 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.

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"