Samuel Palmer
(England 1805–1881)
- Title
- The sleeping shepherd
- Year
- 1857
- Media category
- Materials used
- etching
- Edition
- iv of 4 states
- Dimensions
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12.5 x 10.3cm platemark; 36.5 x 26.5cm sheet
- Credit
- Purchased 2007
- Accession number
- 221.2007
- Location
- Not on display
- Further information
Palmer turned to etching in 1850 in a deliberate effort to revive the visionary intensity of his youth when he was a disciple of William Blake. His prints evoke an idyllic earthly paradise. In the foreground a shepherd sleeps under an Italianate pergola. There is a flock of sheep and in the distance a ploughman and his oxen work the hillside.
- Bibliography (4)
-
'Diverse, individual and imaginative' by Peter Raissis, pg.24-27, Look Jul 2009, Jul 2009, 26, 27 (illus.).
William Vaughan (Author), Samuel Palmer: Vision and Landscape, 2005. no. 133
Raymond Lister (Author), Catalogue raisonné of the works of Samuel Palmer, 1988. no. E6
Raymond Lister (Author), Samuel Palmer and his Etchings, 1969. no. 6
- Exhibition history (1)
-
Printmaking in the age of Romanticism, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 06 Aug 2009–25 Oct 2009.
