The Early Ploughman, or The Morning Spread Upon the Mountains
before 1861
Medium
Etching; fifth state of nine
Dimensions
sheet: 7 3/8 x 10 7/16 in. (18.8 x 26.5 cm) plate: 6 7/8 x 9 7/8 in. (17.5 x 25.1 cm) image: 5 3/16 x 7 3/4 in. (13.1 x 19.7 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917
Accession Number
17.3.1182
Tags
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...