1818
gouache
paper
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Bamberg is a 1818 gouache by Samuel Prout, a Romanticism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This painting shows a narrow street with a large building on the left and a smaller one on the right. The large building has many windows, some with shutters, and a big dome on top. People are standing around the street, and there's a boat in the water in the background. The artist used a lot of detail to make the buildings and people look realistic. The painting is done in shades of gray and white, which gives it a soft look. If you like this style of painting, you might want to check out more works from the Romanticism movement.
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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