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
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...