The Early Plowman
Samuel Palmer
n.d.
Medium
Etching in black on paper
Dimensions
Image: 13.3 × 19.7 cm (5 1/4 × 7 13/16 in.); Plate: 18 × 25 cm (7 1/8 × 9 7/8 in.); Sheet: 28.5 × 37.5 cm (11 1/4 × 14 13/16 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
133306
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...