The Skylark
1850
Medium
Etching on chine collé; seventh or eighth state of eight
Dimensions
sheet: 14 7/16 x 10 5/8 in. (36.7 x 27 cm) plate: 4 3/4 x 3 13/16 in. (12 x 9.7 cm) image: 3 7/8 x 2 15/16 in. (9.9 x 7.4 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
A. Hyatt Mayor Purchase Fund, Marjorie Phelps Starr Bequest, 2003
Accession Number
2003.327
Tags
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...