1830
graphite
paper
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Dominant colour
Sion is a 1830 graphite by Samuel Prout, a Romanticism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This sketch shows a tall church tower on the left and a big, old building next to it. The building has three floors with small windows and a slanted roof. People stand outside, some near a cart, others walking by. The artist used quick, loose lines to draw the scene. The church tower looks rough and uneven, almost like it’s falling apart. This style fits a time when artists drew things as they saw them, not perfectly. Look up Romanticism to see why artists like this one drew real-life scenes with emotion.
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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