The Ploughman, 1827, Wood engraving on India paper, laid down; third state of three, image: 3 1/4 x 5 in. (8.3 x 12.8 cm), Prints, Edward Calvert (British, Appledore, Devon 1799–1833 Hackney (London)), In this richly detailed engraving, Calvert conjured an idealized medieval world. Made in the weeks immediately following Blake's death, The Ploughman manifests Calvert's affirmation of his own artistic vocation: the farmer who cuts furrows in the soil represents the engraver who incises lines in copper plates
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