The Sleeping Shepherd; Early Morning
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
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...