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Source Description
Samuel Prout’s watercolors of picturesque views and architectural marvels of Italy, France, Germany, and Switzerland attracted a wide audience, helped inspire travel, and shaped the English perception of Continental Europe. The influential critic John Ruskin became a close friend, neighbor, and great supporter of the artist, declaring in the Art Journal in 1849 that no other artist expressed architectural detail in more "splendid accumulation" or "patient love" than Prout.
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Document identity
localId
119725
label
Interior of a Cathedral
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obj
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drawing
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1
Source metadata
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119725
contentType
drawing
title
Interior of a Cathedral
description
Samuel Prout’s watercolors of picturesque views and architectural marvels of Italy, France, Germany, and Switzerland attracted a wide audience, helped inspire travel, and shaped the English perception of Continental Europe. The influential critic John Ruskin became a close friend, neighbor, and great supporter of the artist, declaring in the Art Journal in 1849 that no other artist expressed architectural detail in more "splendid accumulation" or "patient love" than Prout.
date
c. 1820s
rights
CC0
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
wikidata
Q80014907
creators
1271
genreSpecific
Drawing
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1
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import
dimensionsRaw
Sheet: 43.3 x 30 cm (17 1/16 x 11 13/16 in.)
cul
England, 19th century
accession
1940.56
Source extras
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gray and brown wash with point of brush and pen and brown ink with watercolor heightened with gouache
tombstone
Interior of a Cathedral, c. 1820s. Samuel Prout (British, 1783–1852). Gray and brown wash with point of brush and pen and brown ink with watercolor heightened with gouache; sheet: 43.3 x 30 cm (17 1/16 x 11 13/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of James Parmelee, 1940.560
supportMaterials
description
heavy, moderately textured cream wove paper
collection
DR - British
inscriptions
inscription
signed, in brown ink, at lower right: SProut
didYouKnow
Rather than showing a specific church, this drawing seems to depict an amalgamation of Gothic architecture, capturing a mood and not a particular place.
citations
citation
Francis, Henry S. "The Bequest of James Parmelee." <em>Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 28, no. 2 (February 1941): 15-27, 31.
page_number
Mentioned: p. 17
citation
Lemonedes, Heather. <em>British Drawings: The Cleveland Museum of Art. </em>Exh. Cat. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2013.
page_number
Mentioned: pp. 68-69, 147, no. 21; Reproduced: p. 69
creditline
Bequest of James Parmelee
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2026-05-29 06:10:55.224000
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119725
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Drawings
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DR - British
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gray and brown wash with point of brush and pen and brown ink with watercolor heightened with gouache
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male
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1
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0
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photo
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cd654e64da3304e9