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Samuel Palmer

The Early Ploughman, or The Morning Spread Upon the Mountains

begun before 1861
Etching; fifth state of nine
18 × 26.7 cm (7.1 × 10.5 in)

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In the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York · as of July 2026

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