The Lonely Tower
1879
Medium
Etching; fourth state of seven
Dimensions
sheet: 14 5/16 x 19 11/16 in. (36.3 x 50 cm) plate: 7 7/16 in. (18.9 cm) image: 6 1/2 x 9 3/16 in. (16.5 x 23.3 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Margaret Scolari Barr, 1986
Accession Number
1986.1232.2
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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...