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Details
- Date
- 1857
- Media category
- Materials used
- etching
- Edition
- iv of 4 states
- Dimensions
- 12.5 x 10.3 cm platemark; 36.5 x 26.5 cm sheet
- Credit
- Purchased 2007
- Location
- South Building, ground level, Grand Courts
- Accession number
- 221.2007
- Copyright
- Artist information
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Samuel Palmer
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About
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.
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Exhibition history
Shown in 1 exhibition
Printmaking in the age of Romanticism, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 06 Aug 2009–25 Oct 2009
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Bibliography
Referenced in 4 publications
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Raymond Lister, Catalogue raisonné of the works of Samuel Palmer, 1988. no. E6
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Raymond Lister, Samuel Palmer and his Etchings, 1969. no. 6
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Peter Raissis, Look, 'Diverse, individual and imaginative', pg.24-27, Sydney, Jul 2009, 26, 27 (illus.).
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William Vaughan, Elizabeth E Barker and Colin Harrison, Samuel Palmer 1805-1881. Vision and Landscape, London, 2005. no. 133
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