Interior of a Cathedral
Samuel Prout (British, 1783–1852)
c. 1820s
- Medium
- gray and brown wash with point of brush and pen and brown ink with watercolor heightened with gouache
- Classification
- Drawing
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 43.3 x 30 cm (17 1/16 x 11 13/16 in.)
- Culture
- England, 19th century
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Drawings
- Credit line
- Bequest of James Parmelee
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
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.
