Facsimiles of Sketches Made in Flanders and Germany: On the Walls, Cologne
1833
- Medium
- lithograph, hand colored with white gouache on gray paper
- Dimensions
- 54.9 × 37 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-211678
Prout was a landscape watercolorist, printmaker, and well-known teacher. Prout drew freely on the stone with a firm but crumbling line, ideally suited to the quaint, eroded architecture he loved to portray. Tone was obtained by printing on pale gray paper and then adding highlights by hand with white gouache. Topographical prints had been popular in England since the late 1900s and they increased awareness of the beauty of the British landscape. Such prints, as well as the writing of Jean Jacques Rousseau, inspired a love of nature. When the Napoleonic Wars ended in 1814, peaceful conditions …
Provenance
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of John Bonebrake, 2012.277
Registry history
- 1833 — Recorded in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art — prints
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