Art, literature & history
The Herdsman's Cottage
1850
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- etching on laid paper
- Dimensions
- image: 9.7 x 7.7 cm (3 13/16 x 3 1/16 in.) plate: 12.4 x 10.5 cm (4 7/8 x 4 1/8 in.) sheet: 37 x 27.1 cm (14 9/16 x 10 11/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1999.107.1
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Samuel Palmer. The Herdsman's Cottage. Samuel Palmer; This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the National Gallery of Art . Please see the Gallery's Open Access Policy .. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Samuel_Palmer,_The_Herdsman%27s_Cottage,_1850,_NGA_110596.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
The Herdsman's Cottage — Samuel Palmer. 1850.
Medium: etching on laid paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): image: 9.7 x 7.7 cm (3 13/16 x 3 1/16 in.) plate: 12.4 x 10.5 cm (4 7/8 x 4 1/8 in.) sheet: 37 x 27.1 cm (14 9/16 x 10 11/16 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1999.107.1. Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund.
Museum holding does not establish current display.
Source: National Gallery of Art, CC0 collection metadata, retrieved 9 September 2026.
Location checked Sep 9, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.