The Willow
Samuel Palmer
n.d.
Medium
Etching in black on paper
Dimensions
Image: 9 × 6.7 cm (3 9/16 × 2 11/16 in.); Plate: 11.5 × 8.5 cm (4 9/16 × 3 3/8 in.); Sheet: 29.7 × 21.2 cm (11 3/4 × 8 3/8 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
27245
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...