Heidelberg Castle
Samuel Prout
c. 1830
Medium
Brush and black ink and gray wash, over graphite, on cream wove paper, laid down on blue covered wove card
Dimensions
47.4 × 33.2 cm (18 11/16 × 13 1/8 in.)
Classification
drawings (visual works)
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
85535
Rights
Public Domain
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...