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Palmer came to printmaking relatively late in his career in 1850 when he was elected to the Etching Club in London. He created a significant number of landscape etchings, intricate in detail and sonorous in chiaroscuro. In The Skylark, one of Palmer’s earliest compositions, a solitary figure in a rural landscape contemplates the flight of a songbird. Palmer has been compared to the German Romantic artist Caspar David Friedrich (also in this exhibition), who produced images infused with a similarly indefinable atmosphere of calm, mystery, and breathless silence.
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Document identity
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142363
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The Skylark
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print
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142363
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print
title
The Skylark
description
Palmer came to printmaking relatively late in his career in 1850 when he was elected to the Etching Club in London. He created a significant number of landscape etchings, intricate in detail and sonorous in chiaroscuro. In The Skylark, one of Palmer’s earliest compositions, a solitary figure in a rural landscape contemplates the flight of a songbird. Palmer has been compared to the German Romantic artist Caspar David Friedrich (also in this exhibition), who produced images infused with a similarly indefinable atmosphere of calm, mystery, and breathless silence.
date
1850
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CC0
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CC0
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en
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Q80042098
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1468
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Print
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1
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England, 19th century
accession
1966.181
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etching
tombstone
The Skylark, 1850. Samuel Palmer (British, 1805–1881). Etching. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Lewis B. Williams, presented in honor of Henry Sayles Francis, Curator of Prints, 1966.181
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PR - Etching
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VI/VIII
citations
citation
Richards, Louise S. “Samuel Palmer: Poet of the Etching Needle.” <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 54, no. 4 (April 1967): 111–119.
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Reproduced: p. 116, fig. 3
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Lister 2
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Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Lewis B. Williams, presented in honor of Henry Sayles Francis, Curator of Prints
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2026-05-29 07:18:05.209000
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142363
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