The Lonely Tower, 1879

Not on View

series Title

Il Penseroso

Medium

etching in black on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 19.2 x 25.3 cm (7 9/16 x 9 15/16 in.)

sheet: 26.6 x 35.9 cm (10 1/2 x 14 1/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Charles Ryskamp in honor of Paul Mellon, and in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art

Catalogue Raisonné

Lister 1988, no. 12, State iv/vii

Accession Number

1991.154.6

Artists / Makers

Samuel Palmer (artist) British, 1805 - 1881

Alfred Herbert Palmer (printer) British, 1853 - 1932

Image Use

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Inscription

lower right in graphite: S. Palmer; lower left in plate: Sam.l Palmer; by later hand, lower center in graphite: The Lonely Tower; by later hand, lower left in graphite: a2640; by late r hand, lLv//in graphite: c41869 / AP. / 21.March 1879.

Marks and Labels

BS: A.H.P. PRIVATE PRESS

Exhibition History

1992: Dürer to Diebenkorn: Recent Acquisitions of Art of Paper, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1992, no. 58.

2006: The Artist's Vision: Romantic Traditions in Great Britain, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2006 - 2007

Bibliography

1968: Lister, Raymond. Samuel Palmer and His Etchings.New York: Watson-Gulptill, 1968.

1988: Lister, Raymond. Catalogue Raisonne of the Works of Samuel Palmer. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1988: no. 12, iv/vii