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- Title:
The Ploughman
- Former Title(s):
The Ploughman or Christian Ploughing the Last Furrow of Life
- Additional Title(s):
Christian Ploughing the Last Furrow of Life
- Date:
- 1827
- Medium:
- Wood-engraving on medium, smooth, cream Asian paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 3 11/16 x 5 1/2 inches (9.4 x 14 cm), Image: 3 3/16 x 5 inches (8.1 x 12.7 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Lettered lower center within image: "EDW.D. CALVERT. | INVEN."
Inscribed in graphite, lower left: "F. 5. 3rd .st. A fine proof"; inscribed in graphite, lower right: "The Ploughman."; inscribed in graphite, center on back, written vertically downwards: "11" (encircled); inscribed in graphite, lower left on back: "The Ploughman"; inscribed in graphite, lower right on back: "MH."
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1977.14.10895
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- agriculture | animal art | corn | cymbals | dancing | death | food | forest | genre subject | grazing | harp | horses (animals) | life | lightning | lyre | man | musicians | nudes | plough (agricultural equipment) | serpent | sheep | shepherd's crook | shepherdess | snake | stump | sun | sunset | trees | vines | wheat | women
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
Note: The Study Room is open by appointment. Please visit the Study Room page on our website for more details. - Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:29321
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