The Sleeping Shepherd; Early Morning
Samuel Palmer
1857
Medium
etching on chine collé
Dimensions
plate: 12.5 × 10.3 cm (4 15/16 × 4 1/16 in.) sheet: 36.5 × 26 cm (14 3/8 × 10 1/4 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund
Accession Number
1982.21.1
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
Samuel Palmer · 1805–1881
Samuel Palmer was born on 27 January 1805 in Newington, London, the son of a bookseller and sometime Baptist minister. He had little formal schooling and almost no conventional artistic training, yet he possessed an instinctive gift for drawing that led him to exhibit Turner-inspired works at the Royal Academy when he was only fourteen years old. In 1824 his mentor, the painter John Linnell, intro...