Samuel Palmer

The Potato Harvest

1877 · Pen and brown ink, with brush and gray wash and white gouache, over black chalk, with touches of graphite, on ivory wove paper, laid down on tan wove card · 18.9 × 12.8 cm (7 1/2 × 5 1/16 in.)

The Potato Harvest, Palmer, 1877
Art Institute of Chicago

Palmer, The Potato Harvest, 1877. Pen and brown ink, with brush and gray wash and white gouache, over black chalk, with touches of graphite, on ivory wove paper, laid down on tan wove card.

The Art Institute of Chicago · The Charles Deering Collection

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