1800
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Cottages near St. Micheal's Mount, Cornwall is a 1800 watercolor by Samuel Prout, a British Romanticism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This painting shows a crumbling stone house with a sagging roof. A woman in a dark dress stands near a pile of woven baskets and a wooden ladder. The walls are cracked, and a small window has a cross pattern on it. In the background, a distant castle sits on a hill. The artist focused on the rough texture of the stone and the worn-out wood. This kind of detailed, realistic scene was common in the movement that valued emotion and nature. Look up Romanticism to see more paintings like this one.
A watercolour by Samuel Prout depicts cottages situated near St Michael's Mount in Cornwall, signed by the artist.
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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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