Opening the Fold
Samuel Palmer
n.d.
Medium
Etching in black on paper
Dimensions
Image: 11.9 × 17.7 cm (4 11/16 × 7 in.); Plate: 19 × 24 cm (7 1/2 × 9 1/2 in.); Sheet: 27.5 × 36 cm (10 7/8 × 14 3/16 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
20057
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...