Sabrina

1856

Dating: Exact year
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Watercolor and gouache (bodycolor) over graphite, with reductive techniques, shell gold and gum arabic
Dimensions: Sheet: 21 15/16 × 30 1/8 in. (55.7 × 76.5 cm)
Collection no.: 2017.252
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Samuel Palmer. Sabrina. Samuel Palmer; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Purchase, Acquisitions Fund and David T. Schiff Gift, 2017. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.

Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

About this artwork

Sabrina — Samuel Palmer. 1856.

Medium: Watercolor and gouache (bodycolor) over graphite, with reductive techniques, shell gold and gum arabic. Dimensions: Sheet: 21 15/16 × 30 1/8 in. (55.7 × 76.5 cm).

Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.

Credit line: Purchase, Acquisitions Fund and David T. Schiff Gift, 2017.

This is a museum catalogue record, not a current-display assertion.

Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.

Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.

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