Zwinger Palace, Dresden, from Facsimiles of Sketches made in Flanders and Germany
Samuel Prout
1833
Medium
Lithograph in black on grayish-ivory chine, laid down on ivory wove paper
Dimensions
Plate: 40.9 × 28.1 cm (16 1/8 × 11 1/8 in.); Sheet: 42.9 × 30.5 cm (16 15/16 × 12 1/16 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
147551
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...