Cottages and Spires
Samuel Prout
n.d.
Medium
Brush and black and gray wash, over graphite, on cream wove paper
Dimensions
26.3 × 33.4 cm (10 3/8 × 13 3/16 in.)
Classification
ink or chalk wash
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
85331
About the Artist
Samuel Prout · 1783–1852
Samuel Prout was born in Plymouth in 1783, the son of a naval outfitter, and grew up in a port city whose seafront and trading life attuned him to architecture, boats, and the textures of a working world. He moved to London in 1803 and initially struggled to establish himself, producing marine subjects for print publishers and taking on pupils while refining the instructional drawing books for whi...