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
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...