The Weary Ploughman, or The Herdsman, or Tardus Bubulcus
begun 1858
Medium
Etching; seventh or eighth state of eight
Dimensions
sheet: 5 5/16 x 8 1/8 in. (13.5 x 20.6 cm) plate: 7 1/2 x 10 5/16 in. (19 x 26.2 cm) image: 5 3/16 x 7 7/8 in. (13.2 x 20 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917
Accession Number
17.3.3158
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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...