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The Weary Ploughman

The Weary Ploughman

Artist/Maker (English, 1805–1881)
Date1858
MediumEtching on tissue mounted on paper
DimensionsImage: 5 3/16 × 7 15/16 in. (13.2 × 20.2 cm)
Sheet (tissue): 6 15/16 × 9 3/4 in. (17.7 × 24.8 cm)
Credit LineMrs. F. F. Prentiss Fund
EditionFirst published in 1858, published in 8th state in 1865
Object number1988.32
Status
Not on view
More Information
For Palmer, the bucolic English landscape was to remain pristine and untouched by changes incurred by the Industrial Revolution. Achieving an almost spiritual intensity in his densely etched rendering of the countryside and its inhabitants, Palmer at once captures the pastoral mood as well as imbues the land and sky with a brimming life force that manifests the Sublime.
Exhibition History
Recent Acquisitions, 1989
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (December 20, 1988 - February 12, 1989 )
Landscape in the 19th Century: Observation and Interpretation
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (February 20, 1990 - April 29, 1990 )
Out of Albion: British Art from the Allen Memorial Art Museum
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (August 26, 2008 - December 23, 2008 )
Between Fact and Fantasy: The Artistic Imagination in Print
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (January 17, 2014 - June 22, 2014 )
Picturing the Land
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (February 9, 2021 - August 13, 2021 )
Collections
  • European
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