Harvesting
c. 1851
Medium
watercolor and gouache over graphite with scratching-out and touches of gum arabic on paperboard
Dimensions
Overall: 37.8 x 51.5 cm (14 7/8 x 20 1/4 in.) mat: 55.9 x 71.1 cm (22 x 28 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of The Brown Foundation, Inc., Houston
Accession Number
1997.104.1
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...