Interior of a Cathedral
c. 1820s
Samuel Prout
Samuel Prout (British, 1783–1852)
Drawings
Interior of a Cathedral, c. 1820s. Samuel Prout (British, 1783–1852). Gray and brown wash with point of brush and pen and brown ink with watercolor heightened with gouache; sheet: 43.3 x 30 cm (17 1/16 x 11 13/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of James Parmelee 1940.560 Samuel Prout’s watercolors of picturesque views and architectural marvels of Italy, France, Germany, and Switzerland attracted a wide audience, helped inspire travel, and shaped the English perception of Continental Europe. The influential critic John Ruskin became a close friend, neighbor, and great supporter of the artist, declaring in the Art Journal in 1849 that no other artist expressed architectural detail in more "splendid accumulation" or "patient love" than Prout. Rather than showing a specific church, this drawing seems to depict an amalgamation of Gothic architecture, capturing a mood and not a particular place.
- Maker/Artist
- Prout, Samuel
- Classification
- Drawing
- Formatted Medium
- gray and brown wash with point of brush and pen and brown ink with watercolor heightened with gouache
- Medium
- gray, brown, wash, point, brush, pen, ink, watercolor, heightened, gouache
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 43.3 x 30 cm (17 1/16 x 11 13/16 in.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: signed, in brown ink, at lower right: SProut
- Departments
- Drawings
- Accession Number
- 1940.560
- Credit Line
- Bequest of James Parmelee
- Exhibitions
- The Birth and Flowering of British Romantic Art, Lemonedes, Heather. British Drawings: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Published on the occasion of the exhibition "British Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art" shown 10 Feb to 26 May 2013 at the Cleveland Museum of Art. London: D Giles Limited, 2013. Cat 21, pg 68-9.
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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