San Giorgio dei Greci, Seen from an Arcade
1824/1829
Medium
pen and brown ink and pen and gray ink over graphite, with watercolor and gouache, touched with gum arabic, on medium wove paper
Dimensions
sheet: 42.3 × 27.5 cm (16 5/8 × 10 13/16 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
William B. O'Neal Fund
Accession Number
2013.98.1
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...