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Samuel Palmer

The Early Ploughman, in or before 1861

Not on View

Medium

etching on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 14.2 x 21.2 cm (5 9/16 x 8 3/8 in.)

sheet: 17.7 x 26.8 cm (6 15/16 x 10 9/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Gaillard F. Ravenel and Frances P. Smyth-Ravenel

Catalogue Raisonné

Lister 1988, no. 9, State vii/ix

Accession Number

2000.7.32

Artists / Makers

Samuel Palmer (artist) British, 1805 - 1881

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Inscription

by later hand, center verso in graphite: 21 / a; by later hand, lower left verso in graphite: 17875

Provenance

Gaillard F. Ravenel and Frances P. Smyth-Ravenel, Washington D.C.; gift to NGA, 2000.

Associated Names

Smyth-Ravenel Fund, Gaillard F. Ravenel and Frances P.

Exhibition History

2000: Drawings and Prints from the Permanent Collection (Summer 2000), National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2000.

Bibliography

1968: Lister, Raymond. Samuel Palmer and His Etchings.New York: Watson-Gulptill, 1968.

1988: Lister, Raymond. Catalogue Raisonne of the Works of Samuel Palmer. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1988: no. 9, vii/ix

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