Art, literature & history
The Weary Ploughman
1858
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- etching on chine collé
- Dimensions
- plate: 19.3 x 26.4 cm (7 5/8 x 10 3/8 in.) sheet: 32 x 44.6 cm (12 5/8 x 17 9/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 2002.98.174
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Samuel Palmer. The Weary Ploughman. 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_Weary_Ploughman,_1858,_NGA_119975.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 Weary Ploughman — Samuel Palmer. 1858.
Medium: etching on chine collé.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): plate: 19.3 x 26.4 cm (7 5/8 x 10 3/8 in.) sheet: 32 x 44.6 cm (12 5/8 x 17 9/16 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 2002.98.174. Gift of Jacob Kainen.
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.