The Skylark. Artist: Samuel Palmer (British, London 1805-1881 Redhill, Surrey). Dimensions: sheet: 14 7/16 x 10 5/8 in. (36.7 x 27 cm)plate: 4 3/4 x 3 13/16 in. (12 x 9.7 cm)image: 3 7/8 x 2 15/16 in. (9.9 x 7.4 cm). Date: 1850.Samuel Palmer, one of the greatest British etchers, engaged throughout his career with the poetry of John Milton. This pastoral idyll - in which a man accompanied by a dog, pauses at a gate to watch a bird soar into the early-morning sky - relates to a passage in Milton's L'Allegro of 1645 (lines 40-44): "To hear the lark begin his flight/ And singing startle the dull night,/ From his watch-towre in the skies/ Till the dappled dawn doth rise.". Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

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The Skylark. Artist: Samuel Palmer (British, London 1805-1881 Redhill, Surrey). Dimensions: sheet: 14 7/16 x 10 5/8 in. (36.7 x 27 cm)plate: 4 3/4 x 3 13/16 in. (12 x 9.7 cm)image: 3 7/8 x 2 15/16 in. (9.9 x 7.4 cm). Date: 1850.Samuel Palmer, one of the greatest British etchers, engaged throughout his career with the poetry of John Milton. This pastoral idyll - in which a man accompanied by a dog, pauses at a gate to watch a bird soar into the early-morning sky - relates to a passage in Milton's L'Allegro of 1645 (lines 40-44): "To hear the lark begin his flight/ And singing startle the dull night,/ From his watch-towre in the skies/ Till the dappled dawn doth rise.". Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

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