Facsimiles of Sketches Made in Flanders and Germany: On the Walls, Cologne
Medium
lithograph, hand colored with white gouache on gray paper
Dimensions
image: 40.7 × 28.2 cm · sheet: 54.9 × 37 cm
Classification
Department
Prints
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Bequest of John Bonebrake
Accession Number
2012.277
Tags
About this artwork
Prout was a landscape watercolorist, printmaker, and well-known teacher. Prout drew freely on the stone with a firm but crumbling line, ideally suited to the quaint, eroded architecture he loved to portray. Tone was obtained by printing on pale gray paper and then adding highlights by hand with white gouache. Topographical prints had been popular in England since the late 1900s and they increased awareness of the beauty of the British landscape. Such prints, as well as the writing of Jean Jacque...