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<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/samuel-palmer-411" aria-label="More by Samuel Palmer" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Samuel Palmer</a>
Weary Ploughman
Presented by Herbert Linnell 1924
adults
agriculture and fishing
animals: mammals
architecture
astronomy
dog - non-specific
evening
hill
landscape
man
moon
ox
people
ploughing
road
times of the day
townscapes / man-made features
wooded
work and occupations
<p>Palmer's fellow Ancients Edward Calvert and George Richmond made a number of prints during the Shoreham period. But Palmer made only one, now very rare, wood-engraving at that time. In the 1850s, however, he took up etching, and produced a sequence of prints in which he recaptured some of the intensity of his visionary Shoreham years. Many of them are twilight or dawn scenes, combining memories of Shoreham with those of his later visit to Italy and his admiration for Claude. Palmer began this plate in May 1858, and etched it in six weeks, reworking it several times. Its alternative title, 'The Herdsman', may be more apt, since ploughing would not usually take place during the same month, May, that horse-chestnuts are in blossom.</p><p><em>Gallery label, August 2004</em></p>
paper print etching
12 August 2019 – 17 March 2020
2020-03-17
12 August 2019
2019-08-12
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2019-08-12
Blake Followers
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The Weary Ploughman
image: 133 × 203 mm
Presented by Herbert Linnell 1924
<p>Palmer's fellow <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/t/the-ancients" title="Glossary definition for 'The Ancients'"><span>Ancients</span></a> Edward Calvert and George Richmond made a number of <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/print" title="Glossary definition for 'Print'"><span>prints</span></a> during the Shoreham period. But Palmer made only one, now very rare, <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/w/wood-engraving" title="Glossary definition for 'Wood engraving'"><span>wood-engraving</span></a> at that time. In the 1850s, however, he took up <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/e/etching" title="Glossary definition for 'Etching'"><span>etching</span></a>, and produced a sequence of prints in which he recaptured some of the intensity of his visionary Shoreham years. Many of them are twilight or dawn scenes, combining memories of Shoreham with those of his later visit to Italy and his admiration for Claude. Palmer began this plate in May 1858, and etched it in six weeks, reworking it several times. Its alternative title, 'The Herdsman', may be more apt, since ploughing would not usually take place during the same month, May, that horse-chestnuts are in blossom.</p>
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adults agriculture and fishing animals: mammals architecture astronomy dog - non-specific evening hill landscape man moon ox people ploughing road times of the day townscapes / man-made features wooded work and occupations