The Sleeping Shepherd; Early Morning
Samuel Palmer
1857
Medium
etching, hand-colored with watercolor and opaque white with gold highlights
Dimensions
plate: 9.5 x 7.8 cm (3 3/4 x 3 1/16 in.) overall (mat size): 27.9 x 35.6 cm (11 x 14 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1943.3.6711
About the Artist
Samuel Palmer
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...