Opening the Fold, or Early Morning
Samuel Palmer
1880
Medium
Etching; third state of ten, retouched in graphite
Dimensions
plate: 6 3/8 x 9 1/16 in. (16.2 x 23 cm) sheet: 10 1/4 x 14 1/4 in. (26 x 36.2 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of G. L. Winthrop, 1917
Accession Number
17.55.3
Tags
AnimalsMountainsTrees
About the Artist
Samuel Palmer
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...