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Samuel Prout, O.W.S. (Plymouth 1783-1852 London)
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Samuel Prout, O.W.S. (Plymouth 1783-1852 London)

A figure in a ruined cloister with Gothic tracery

Fermé9 December 2010

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Samuel Prout, O.W.S. (Plymouth 1783-1852 London)
A figure in a ruined cloister with Gothic tracery
signed with initials 'S.P.' (lower right)
pencil, pen and brown ink and watercolour with gum arabic, unframed
8 7/8 x 6 3/8 in. (22.6 x 16.1 cm.); 'Figures and Sheep' after George Morland; and three other landscapes by various hands, all unframed (5)

Taylor's, Honiton, 17 May 1985, where purchased by
C. Greenberg; and by descent to the present owner.

Note du spécialiste

Prout is particularly celebrated for his sympathetic depictions of architecture as is illustrated in the present watercolour. Writing about Prout's technique, Ruskin wrote that he had 'been so scrupulous and fondly faithful: and so often rendered the character of peculiar features, of which I believe few people...could understand the precision' (Letter of May 1849, Works, XXXVIII, p. 343).