Image

Samuel Prout

Frankfurt on the Rhine, before 1833

Description

Maker

Title

Frankfurt on the Rhine

Year

before 1833

Medium

Pen and ink, watercolor over graphite on wove paper

Materials/Techniques

Materials

Supports

Dimensions

20.6 x 15.9 cm (8 1/8 x 6 1/4 inches)

Type

Credit

Gift of Mrs. Gustav Radeke

Object Number

23.340

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

From Dürer to Van Gogh

June 5 - October 26, 2008

Samuel Prout capitalized on the popular taste for the aging, picturesque architecture of Europe by making several trips to the Continent to paint and thereafter produce books containing lithographic reproductions of his watercolors. He created this landscape for the 1833 volume, "Facsimiles of Sketches made in Flanders and Germany." As was characteristic, he drew the contours of his buildings with a reed pen, trying to capture the picturesque decay of the scene with abrupt, broken lines. His technique exhibits a careful attention to the balance between contour and application of color.

Use

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