Christmas
Samuel Palmer
c. 1850
Medium
Etching on paper
Dimensions
Image: 10.1 × 8.2 cm (4 × 3 1/4 in.); Plate: 12.5 × 10.3 cm (4 15/16 × 4 1/16 in.); Sheet: 29.8 × 27.9 cm (11 3/4 × 11 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
28875
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
Samuel Palmer · 1805–1881
Samuel Palmer was born on 27 January 1805 in Newington, London, the son of a bookseller and sometime Baptist minister. He had little formal schooling and almost no conventional artistic training, yet he possessed an instinctive gift for drawing that led him to exhibit Turner-inspired works at the Royal Academy when he was only fourteen years old. In 1824 his mentor, the painter John Linnell, intro...