The Rising Moon
Samuel Palmer
n.d.
Medium
Etching in black on paper
Dimensions
Image: 11.8 × 19 cm (4 11/16 × 7 1/2 in.); Plate: 15 × 22 cm (5 15/16 × 8 11/16 in.); Sheet: 26 × 36.5 cm (10 1/4 × 14 3/8 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
27243
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...