The Lonely Tower
Samuel Palmer
c. 1879
Medium
Etching on paper
Dimensions
Image: 16.8 × 23.4 cm (6 5/8 × 9 1/4 in.); Plate: 19.1 × 25.3 cm (7 9/16 × 10 in.); Sheet: 33.7 × 44.2 cm (13 5/16 × 17 7/16 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
21652
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...