The Lonely Tower

1879

Dating: Exact year
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Etching; fourth state of seven
Dimensions: sheet: 14 5/16 x 19 11/16 in. (36.3 x 50 cm) plate: 7 7/16 in. (18.9 cm) image: 6 1/2 x 9 3/16 in. (16.5 x 23.3 cm)
Collection no.: 1986.1232.2
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Samuel Palmer. The Lonely Tower. Samuel Palmer; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Gift of Margaret Scolari Barr, 1986. 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

The Lonely Tower — Samuel Palmer. 1879.

Medium: Etching; fourth state of seven. Dimensions: sheet: 14 5/16 x 19 11/16 in. (36.3 x 50 cm) plate: 7 7/16 in. (18.9 cm) image: 6 1/2 x 9 3/16 in. (16.5 x 23.3 cm).

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

Credit line: Gift of Margaret Scolari Barr, 1986.

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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