The Sleeping Shepherd
Samuel Palmer
1857
Medium
etching on chine collé
Dimensions
plate: 12.3 × 10.4 cm (4 13/16 × 4 1/8 in.) sheet: 33.7 × 24.9 cm (13 1/4 × 9 13/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (Bequest of Frank B. Bristow)
Accession Number
2015.143.105
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...