The Herdsman's Cottage
1850
Medium
etching on laid paper
Dimensions
image: 9.7 x 7.7 cm (3 13/16 x 3 1/16 in.) plate: 12.4 x 10.5 cm (4 7/8 x 4 1/8 in.) sheet: 37 x 27.1 cm (14 9/16 x 10 11/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund
Accession Number
1999.107.1
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...