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Christmas, c. 1850. Etching on paper.
Etching on paper · Image: 10.1 × 8.2 cm · Art Institute of Chicago
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- Museum title
- Christmas
- Artist
- Samuel Palmer English, 1805-1881
- Date
- c. 1850
- Medium
- Etching on paper
- Dimensions
- Image: 10.1 × 8.2 cm (4 × 3 1/4 in.); Plate: 12.5 × 10.3 cm (4 15/16 × 4 1/16 in.); Sheet: 29.8 × 27.9 cm (11 3/4 × 11 in.)
- Credit line
- Clarence Buckingham Collection
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Artist’s life 1805–1881
View in the AtlasGaller’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.