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Sketchbook: "Ruin"
Samuel Prout (British, 1783–1852)
1814
- Medium
- graphite with gray and tan wash
- Classification
- Bound Volume
- Dimensions
- Each page: 13.5 x 23.4 cm (5 5/16 x 9 3/16 in.)
- Culture
- England, 19th century
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert N. Bier, London
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its museum says too little about what it shows to place it for younger viewers. How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
John Ruskin (also in this gallery) admired Prout’s strength as a draftsman. Like the topographical watercolorists of the 18th century, Prout emphasized form over color in his watercolors, as is evident in the monochromatic, delicate English views in this sketchbook.
