Materials & Techniques: etching (printing process) / Period: 19th century / Genre: animal art and genre subject

1. The Sleeping Shepherd

Creator:: Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881
Date:: 1857
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and drypoint on thick, smooth, cream wove paper with cream chine collé
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 13/16 x 4 1/16 inches (12.2 x 10.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

2. The Weary Ploughman

Creator:: Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881
Date:: 1858
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and drypoint on thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper with cream chine collé
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 3/4 x 17 1/16 inches (29.8 x 43.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

3. The Early Ploughman

Creator:: Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881
Date:: begun before 1861
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and drypoint, with plate tone on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 7/8 x 14 3/4 inches (30.2 x 37.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, The G. Allen Smith Collection, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery

4. The Rising Moon

Creator:: Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881
Date:: 1857
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and drypoint, retouched with black ink or oil paint, gray watercolor or gouache, and pale brown watercolor, gouache or chalk on thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 7/8 x 14 7/16 inches (27.6 x 36.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

5. The Rising Moon

Creator:: Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881
Date:: 1857
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and drypoint, with plate tone on thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper with beige chine collé
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 x 12 3/16 inches (22.8 x 31 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

6. The Rising Moon

Creator:: Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881
Date:: 1857
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and drypoint, with plate tone on thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper with cream chine collé
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 7/8 x 16 3/8 inches (27.6 x 41.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

7. The Herdsman's Cottage

Creator:: Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881
Date:: 1850
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and drypoint retouched with graphite on thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper with cream chine collé
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 3/4 x 8 9/16 inches (29.9 x 21.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

8. The Rising Moon

Creator:: Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881
Date:: 1857
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and drypoint, with plate tone on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper with beige chine collé
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 3/8 x 13 3/4 inches (26.3 x 35 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

9. The Rising Moon

Creator:: Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881
Date:: 1857
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and drypoint, with plate tone on thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 x 9 inches (15.3 x 22.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

10. The Weary Ploughman

Creator:: Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881
Date:: 1858
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and drypoint, with plate tone on thick, smooth, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 7/16 x 9 3/16 inches (16.3 x 23.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

11. The Sleeping Shepherd

Creator:: Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881
Date:: 1857
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and drypoint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 5/16 x 7 inches (21.1 x 17.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, The G. Allen Smith Collection, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery

12. The Rising Moon

Creator:: Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881
Date:: 1857
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and drypoint, with plate tone on thick, smooth, cream wove paper with cream chine collé
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 3/4 x 14 5/16 inches (27.3 x 36.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, The G. Allen Smith Collection, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery

13. The Morning of Life

Creator:: Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881
Date:: 1860-1861
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, engraving and drypoint, with plate tone on thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/2 x 11 3/4 inches (21.6 x 29.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, The G. Allen Smith Collection, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery

14. The Weary Ploughman

Creator:: Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881
Date:: 1858
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and drypoint, with plate tone on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 9/16 x 16 3/8 inches (29.4 x 41.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, The G. Allen Smith Collection, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery

15. Opening the Fold

Creator:: Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881
Date:: 1880
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and drypoint, with plate tone on medium, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 15/16 x 10 5/8 inches (20.2 x 27 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, The G. Allen Smith Collection, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery

16. Miss-Ann-Thropy

Creator:: Print made by Henry Heath, active 1824–1835
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Etching, hand-colored on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 13 7/8 × 9 11/16 inches (35.3 × 24.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

17. The Spottiswoode Ox

Creator:: Print made by James Ward, 1769–1859
Date:: 1804
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint and etching on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 20 1/4 × 25 1/2 inches (51.4 × 64.8 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

18. Sleepest or Wakest Thou?

Creator:: Print made by Richard Ansdell, 1815–1885
Date:: ca. 1853
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, smooth, cream card
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 1/4 × 5 7/8 inches (10.8 × 14.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

19. Ominum Gatherum No. 6

Creator:: Henry Heath, active 1824–1835
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 5/8 x 14 7/16 inches (27 x 36.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

20. The Towing Path

Creator:: Print made by Sir Francis Seymour Haden, 1818–1910
Date:: 1864
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and drypoint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 x 9 13/16 inches (17.8 x 24.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Mrs. J. Dwight Dana

21. Kew

Creator:: Sir Francis Seymour Haden, 1818–1910
Date:: 1864
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and drypoint on medium, slightly textured, cream Asian paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/4 x 6 1/8 inches (21 x 15.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Leonard C. Hanna Jr., BA 1910

22. Dusty Millers

Creator:: Sir Francis Seymour Haden, 1818–1910
Date:: 1877
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and drypoint, with plate tone on thin, smooth, cream Asian paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 3/4 x 9 1/2 inches (17.1 x 24.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, The Walter R. Callender, Yale BA 1894, Memorial Collection, Gift of Ivy Lee Callender, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery

23. Dusty Millers

Creator:: Sir Francis Seymour Haden, 1818–1910
Date:: 1877
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and drypoint, with plate tone on thin, smooth, cream Asian paper (2 layers)
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 7/8 x 10 7/8 inches (20 x 27.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Yale Art Gallery Collection, Gift of Mrs. Howard Mansfield

24. Inde Francaise, Costumes, Elephant Caparaconne

Creator:: Print made by unknown artist
Date:: 1835
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving with hand coloring in watercolor and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 1/8 × 10 3/4 inches (18.1 × 27.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Frank de Caro and Rosan Augusta Jordan

25. A Tiger Seizing a Bullock in a Pass

Creator:: Print made by unknown artist
Date:: ca. 1830
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving with hand coloring in watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/2 × 12 1/4 inches (21.6 × 31.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Frank de Caro and Rosan Augusta Jordan

26. The Skylark

Creator:: Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881
Date:: 1850
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and drypoint on thick, smooth, cream wove paper with cream chine collé
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/8 x 8 1/2 inches (28.3 x 21.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

27. The Weary Ploughman

Creator:: Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881
Date:: 1858
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and drypoint on thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 7/16 x 11 9/16 inches (21.5 x 29.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

28. The Early Ploughman

Creator:: Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881
Date:: etching begun before 1861; impression printed in 1926
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and drypoint, with plate tone on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 15/16 x 13 1/8 inches (25.2 x 33.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

29. The Skylark

Creator:: Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881
Date:: 1850
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and drypoint, retouched with graphite on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper with cream chine collé
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 13/16 x 4 inches (12.3 x 10.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

30. The Early Ploughman

Creator:: Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881
Date:: begun before 1861
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and drypoint, with plate tone on thick, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 11/16 x 12 3/8 inches (22.1 x 31.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

31. The Early Ploughman

Creator:: Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881
Date:: begun before 1861
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and drypoint, with plate tone, retouched with white gouache on medium, smooth, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 x 9 15/16 inches (17.8 x 25.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

32. The Skylark

Creator:: Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881
Date:: 1850
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and drypoint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/16 x 6 11/16 inches (20.4 x 17 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, The G. Allen Smith Collection, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery

33. The Early Ploughman

Creator:: Print made by Samuel Palmer, 1805–1881
Date:: 1874
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and drypoint, with plate tone on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 1/16 x 15 3/8 inches (28.1 x 39.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, The G. Allen Smith Collection, transfer from the Yale University Art Gallery

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1. The Sleeping Shepherd

2. The Weary Ploughman

3. The Early Ploughman

4. The Rising Moon

5. The Rising Moon

6. The Rising Moon

7. The Herdsman's Cottage

8. The Rising Moon

9. The Rising Moon

10. The Weary Ploughman

11. The Sleeping Shepherd

12. The Rising Moon

13. The Morning of Life

14. The Weary Ploughman

15. Opening the Fold

16. Miss-Ann-Thropy

17. The Spottiswoode Ox

18. Sleepest or Wakest Thou?

19. Ominum Gatherum No. 6

20. The Towing Path

21. Kew

22. Dusty Millers

23. Dusty Millers

24. Inde Francaise, Costumes, Elephant Caparaconne

25. A Tiger Seizing a Bullock in a Pass

26. The Skylark

27. The Weary Ploughman

28. The Early Ploughman

29. The Skylark

30. The Early Ploughman

31. The Early Ploughman

32. The Skylark

33. The Early Ploughman