The Lonely Tower
Samuel Palmer
n.d.
Medium
Etching in black on paper
Dimensions
Image: 16.5 × 23 cm (6 1/2 × 9 1/16 in.); Plate: 19 × 25.5 cm (7 1/2 × 10 1/16 in.); Sheet: 25.5 × 34.5 cm (10 1/16 × 13 5/8 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
28882
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...