The Bellman
1879
Medium
etching on laid paper
Dimensions
plate: 19 x 25.1 cm (7 1/2 x 9 7/8 in.) sheet: 23 x 36 cm (9 1/16 x 14 3/16 in.) overall (mat): 40.6 x 55.9 cm (16 x 22 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1947.7.89
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...