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The Skylark

1850
(British, 1805–1881)
England, 19th century
etching
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Lewis B. Williams, presented in honor of Henry Sayles Francis, Curator of Prints 1966.181
Catalogue raisonné: Lister 2
State: VI/VIII
Location: not on view
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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.
The Skylark

The Skylark

1850

Samuel Palmer

(British, 1805–1881)
England, 19th century

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