The Ploughman

1886

Peter Moran

Artist, American, 1841 - 1914

Christian Klackner

Publisher, American, 1850 - 1916

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching in black on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    image: 33.97 × 48.58 cm (13 3/8 × 19 1/8 in.)
    plate: 43.18 × 55.25 cm (17 × 21 3/4 in.)
    sheet: 49 × 64.1 cm (19 5/16 × 25 1/4 in.)

  • Accession

    1986.47.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Wright 2010, no. 90

Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

1986

  • Graphic Survey Show, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., 1986-1987.

Bibliography

2010

  • Wright, David Gilmore. Domestic and Wild: Peter Moran's Images of America, vol. 2. Baltimore, Maryland: Creo Press, 2010, pp.416-417, no. 90.

Inscriptions

upper left in plate: Copyright 1886. by C. Klackner. 17 E. 17th St. N.Y.; lower center in plate: P. Moran; lower right in graphite: P Moran; lower center edge in graphite by unknown hand: Ploughing

Wikidata ID

Q74073822

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