1833
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Facisimilies of Sketches made in Flanders and Germany: Sachsenhausen Francfort is a 1833 by Samuel Prout, a Romanticism work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
This sketch shows a narrow street in a European town. Half-timbered buildings lean in, their wooden frames crisscrossing the walls. A red flag hangs from one building, while another has a blue cloth draped over its balcony. People in old-fashioned clothes sit on steps, chat, or walk down the cobblestone path. The scene looks quiet, with a few pigeons flying overhead. The artist focused on everyday life, not grand events. The buildings’ mix of stone and wood was common in old German towns. Next, check out Romanticism to see how artists like this one used real places to tell stories.
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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