The Early Ploughman
Samuel Palmer
in or before 1861
Medium
etching on laid paper
Dimensions
plate: 17.6 x 24.5 cm (6 15/16 x 9 5/8 in.) sheet: 18.6 x 25.9 cm (7 5/16 x 10 3/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of William B. O'Neal
Accession Number
1991.150.98
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...