The Morning of Life
begun 1860–61
Medium
Etching; fourth state of seven
Dimensions
sheet: 9 1/4 x 12 11/16 in. (23.5 x 32.3 cm), irreg. plate: 7 1/8 x 10 in. (18.1 x 25.4 cm) image: 5 3/8 x 8 1/8 in. (13.6 x 20.6 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Theodore De Witt, 1923
Accession Number
23.65.8
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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...