The Morning of Life
Samuel Palmer
1860/61
Medium
Etching in black on paper
Dimensions
Image: 13.5 × 21 cm (5 3/8 × 8 5/16 in.); Plate: 18 × 25 cm (7 1/8 × 9 7/8 in.); Sheet: 22.2 × 30 cm (8 3/4 × 11 13/16 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
47711
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...