Art, literature & history
The Skylark
1850
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- etching on wove paper [proof]
- Dimensions
- sheet: 29.6 × 21.6 cm (11 5/8 × 8 1/2 in.) image: 9.9 × 7.4 cm (3 7/8 × 2 15/16 in.) plate: 12 × 9.7 cm (4 3/4 × 3 13/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 2021.37.1
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Samuel Palmer. The Skylark. Samuel Palmer; Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington; Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
The Skylark — Samuel Palmer. 1850.
Medium: etching on wove paper [proof].
Dimensions (museum labels retained): sheet: 29.6 × 21.6 cm (11 5/8 × 8 1/2 in.) image: 9.9 × 7.4 cm (3 7/8 × 2 15/16 in.) plate: 12 × 9.7 cm (4 3/4 × 3 13/16 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 2021.37.1. Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund.
Museum holding does not establish current display.
Source: National Gallery of Art, CC0 collection metadata, retrieved 9 September 2026.
Location checked Sep 9, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.