The Skylark, 1850, Etching on chine collé; seventh or eighth state of eight, sheet: 14 7/16 x 10 5/8 in. (36.7 x 27 cm), Prints, Samuel Palmer (British, London 1805–1881 Redhill, Surrey), 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
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