Samuel Palmer
English, 1805-1881
A Woodland Study
INV-1988
Samuel Palmer
English, 1805-1881c. 1856
A Woodland Study
Samuel Palmer English, 1805-1881 →prints and drawingdrawings (visual works)
Date
c. 1856
Medium
Brush and black and brown washes, with white gouache and scraping, ruled in graphite, on ivory paperboard
Dimensions
22.5 × 17.2 cm (8 7/8 × 6 13/16 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
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.
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