1833
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Facisimilies of Sketches made in Flanders and Germany: Thein Church, Prague 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. On the left is a simple building with a tiled roof and small windows. On the right stands an old church with tall, ornate stonework and a large arched doorway. People walk and gather outside, and a few hang laundry from a line. The ground is cobblestone, and the whole scene is drawn in black lines with no color. Notice how the artist captures the worn look of the buildings, especially the church’s detailed carvings. The sketch feels like a snapshot of daily life in the past. Want to see more work like this? Check out Romanticism, the movement that valued emotion and real-life scenes in art.
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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