The Skylark
1850
Medium
etching on wove paper [proof]
Dimensions
sheet: 29.6 × 21.6 cm (11 5/8 × 8 1/2 in.) image: 9.9 × 7.4 cm (3 7/8 × 2 15/16 in.) plate: 12 × 9.7 cm (4 3/4 × 3 13/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund
Accession Number
2021.37.1
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...