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Interior of a Cathedral
Samuel Proutc. 1820s
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
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.
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- Title: Interior of a Cathedral
- Creator: Samuel Prout (British, 1783-1852)
- Date Created: c. 1820s
- Physical Dimensions: Sheet: 43.3 x 30 cm (17 1/16 x 11 13/16 in.)
- Provenance: A. D. Halford, Esq., (sale, Victor G. Fischer Company Collection, Anderson Galleries, New York, February 19, 1912, no. 648), James Parmelee [1855-1931], Washington, DC, by descent to Alice Maury Parmelee, Alice Maury Parmelee [1866-1940], Washington, DC, bequeathed to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH through the Estate of James Parmelee, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Type: Drawing
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/1940.560
- Medium: gray and brown wash with point of brush and pen and brown ink with watercolor heightened with gouache
- Inscriptions: signed, in brown ink, at lower right: SProut
- Fun Fact: Rather than showing a specific church, this drawing seems to depict an amalgamation of Gothic architecture, capturing a mood and not a particular place.
- Department: Drawings
- Culture: England, 19th century
- Credit Line: Bequest of James Parmelee
- Collection: DR - British
- Accession Number: 1940.560
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