Cleveland Museum of Art
The Skylark
Samuel PalmerLinkedCulture matchlcp-2ca1fc815835
- Date
- 1850
- Medium
- etching
- Culture
- England, 19th century
- Department
- Prints
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 142363
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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- Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Lewis B. Williams, presented in honor of Henry Sayles Francis, Curator of Prints
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