“I hope to begin a new plan… not sitting down to local matter but walking and watching.”

— Samuel Palmer

The Life and letters of Samuel Palmer, Painter and Etcher (AH Palmer, London, 1892)

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British landscape painter, etcher and printmaker 1805–1881

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