Sketchbook: "Ruin"
Samuel Prout
1814
- Medium
- graphite with gray and tan wash
- Dimensions
- Each page: 13.5 x 23.4 cm (5 5/16 x 9 3/16 in.)
- Genre
- Bound volume
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Styles
Tags
England, 19th century
About
John Ruskin (also in this gallery) admired Prout’s strength as a draftsman. Like the topographical watercolorists of the 18th century, Prout emphasized form over color in his watercolors, as is evident in the monochromatic, delicate English views in this sketchbook.
