1821
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
A Series of Ancient Buildings and Rural Cottages in the North of England: At York, Farmyard with Chickens is a 1821 by Samuel Prout, a Romanticism work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
This sketch shows an old stone castle on a hill, with crumbling walls and a tower. In the foreground, a small farmyard has a low stone house and a few chickens pecking the ground. A woman in a long dress stands near the chickens, holding something in her hands. The artist focused on how old buildings look after years of wear. The lines are simple but full of detail, making the scene feel real and quiet. Next, look up Romanticism to see how artists used nature and history in their work.
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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