The Early Ploughman
Samuel Palmer
c. 1861
Medium
Etching on paper
Dimensions
Image: 13.1 × 19.8 cm (5 3/16 × 7 13/16 in.); Sheet: 16.8 × 24.4 cm (6 5/8 × 9 5/8 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
16004
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...