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The Skylark
Samuel Palmer1850
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
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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