SAMUEL PALMER (BRITISH 1805-1881)
The Early Ploughman or The Morning Spread upon the Mountains (c. 1861-1867) (Lister E9 v/ix)
signed in pencil Samuel Palmer (lower right) and inscribed in pencil Finished State (lower left)
etching
image: 13.1 x 19.7 cm
plate: 17.5 x 25.1 cm

LITERATURE:
Joseph Viscomi Prints by William Blake and His Followers. Ex. cat., March 15-April 17. Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, 1983, cat. no. 53, pp. 25, 34, ill.

Raymond Lister Catalogue Raisonne of the Works of Samuel Palmer. Cambridge, 1988, cat. no. E9 v/ix, pp. 244-5, ill.

Allen Staley The Post-Pre-Raphaelite Print: etching, illustration, reproductive engraving, and photography in England in and around the 1860s. Ex. cat., Miriam & Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University. New York, 1995, cat. no. 72, pp. 124-5, ill.

Jerrold Northrop Moore Pastoral: An Exhibition of Printmaking in the English Pastoral Tradition from William Blake to Robin Tanner. Exh. cat.: 24 June to 18 July, 2002. The Fine Art Society, London, London, 2002, cat. no. 11, p. 29, ill.

Gordon Cooke Samuel Palmer, His Friends and His Followers: Edward Calvert, George Richmond, Frederick Griggs, Paul Drury, Graham Sutherland, Robin Tanner. Exh. cat. The Fine Art Society, London, May 30-June 22, 2012, cat. no. 12, p. 25.

William Vaughan Samuel Palmer: Shadows on the Wall. New Haven and London, 2015, British Museum copy, fig. no. 264, p. 303.