1818
gouache
paper
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Chateau de Martinsbourg, Mayence is a 1818 gouache by Samuel Prout, a Romanticism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This sketch shows a fancy old building with lots of windows, carvings, and pointed towers. In front, workers are moving heavy blocks and covering wagons with cloth. The drawing looks like it was done quickly, with some white highlights added later. The artist focused on how buildings look in real life, not just how they’re supposed to. The messy construction site makes the grand building feel more real. Next, look up lithography to see how this print was made.
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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