Art, literature & history
The Sleeping Shepherd
1857
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Medium
- etching
- Collection no.
- 1966.187
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Samuel Palmer. The Sleeping Shepherd. Samuel Palmer; The Cleveland Museum of Art; Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Lewis B. Williams, presented in honor of Henry Sayles Francis, Curator of Prints. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: The Cleveland Museum of Art
About this artwork
The Sleeping Shepherd — Samuel Palmer. 1857.
Medium: etching. Dimensions: .
Collection record: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.
Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.
Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.