Lot 109
  • 109

Samuel Palmer, R.W.S.

Estimate
600 - 800 GBP
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Description

  • Samuel Palmer, R.W.S.
  • The Ploughman (Lister 9)
  • etching
  • Sheet: 161 by 252mm; 6 3/8 by 9 7/8 in
Etching, circa 1860, a good impression possibly of the fifth state (of nine), on laid paper

Provenance

Wilfrid A. Evill, by whom bequeathed to Honor Frost in 1963

Condition

Trimmed to just outside the platemark at left edge, within the platemark elsewhere, pale light-staining, uneven paper discoloration recto and verso, two diagonal creases at lower left corner of sheet (longest measuring 8.5cm), a pinhole in upper right of image, a few pale fox marks, framed.
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