The Vine, or Plumpy Bacchus
Medium
Etching on chine collé; fourth state of four
Dimensions
plate: 11 7/8 x 8 9/16 in. (30.2 x 21.7 cm) sheet: 17 3/8 x 11 11/16 in. (44.1 x 29.7 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011
Accession Number
2012.136.596
Tags
About the Artist
Samuel Palmer|William Shakespeare
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...