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This is the same as <i>working proof</i> 3, but with the number '4' engraved in the lower margin. \r\nThis was one of the twelve etchings published by Cundall in <i>A Selection of Etchings by the Etching Club</i>, 1865, plate 4. \r\n\r\n'This plate, in common with others of the 1865 series, was supposed to have been destroyed. About ten years afterwards, however, I discovered that it was in existence, and that impressions were about to be sold. On communicating with the secretary of the Etching Club, this was put a stop to, and the plate bought and destroyed.' - A. H. Palmer [see references]","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"'The Weary Ploughman' (also known as 'The Herdsman'), a rural scene showing a man driving a pair of oxen on a country lane. Etching by Samuel Palmer (1858). 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