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The Early Ploughman, c. 1861. Etching on paper.
Etching on paper · Image: 13.1 × 19.8 cm · Art Institute of Chicago
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- Museum title
- The Early Ploughman
- Artist
- Samuel Palmer English, 1805-1881
- Date
- c. 1861
- Medium
- Etching on paper
- Dimensions
- Image: 13.1 × 19.8 cm (5 3/16 × 7 13/16 in.); Sheet: 16.8 × 24.4 cm (6 5/8 × 9 5/8 in.)
- Credit line
- Gift of Harold R. Warner
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Artist’s life 1805–1881
View in the AtlasGaller’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.