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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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  • Title: The Skylark
  • Creator: Samuel Palmer (British, 1805-1881)
  • Date Created: 1850
  • Type: Print
  • Rights: CC0
  • External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/1966.181
  • Medium: etching
  • State of work: VI/VIII
  • Department: Prints
  • Culture: England, 19th century
  • Credit Line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Lewis B. Williams, presented in honor of Henry Sayles Francis, Curator of Prints
  • Collection: PR - Etching
  • Accession Number: 1966.181

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