Sketchbook: Eildon Hills
Samuel Prout (British, 1783–1852)
1814
- Medium
- graphite with gray and brown wash on two pages
- 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
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. 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.
