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A Woodland Study
Samuel Palmer (English, 1805-1881)
c. 1856
- Medium
- Brush and black and brown washes, with white gouache and scraping, ruled in graphite, on ivory paperboard
- Classification
- Drawing and Watercolor
- Dimensions
- 22.5 × 17.2 cm (8 7/8 × 6 13/16 in.)
- Culture
- England
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
An English Romantic painter who was best known for his visionary landscapes, Palmer may have created this monochromatic watercolor as a preparatory study for a print. It can be related to 13 delicate etchings made by the artist in the early 1850s. The watercolor was created with graphite underdrawing, over which several brown and black washes were laid down and then heightened by opaque white paint. To emphasize the contrast between light and dark, Palmer scraped pigment off the drawing as the final phase in this considered and complex artistic process.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
