1850
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Dominant colour
On the canal at Abbeville is a 1850 watercolor by Samuel Prout, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This painting shows a canal in a city. There are buildings on both sides of the water. Some have chimneys with smoke coming out. In the foreground, there's a small bridge over the canal. The buildings are old and some have plants growing on them. The sky is cloudy and grey. The painting is held at the Victoria and Albert Museum.
A watercolour by Prout from 1850 depicts a canal scene in Abbeville, Picardie, featuring a church in the background and signed by the artist.
Read the full account in the museum source.
Samuel Prout (; 17 September 1783 – 10 February 1852) was a British watercolourist, and one of the masters of watercolour architectural painting, who largely invented the genre of the grand steet scene in British…
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