La Halls au Blé,Tours; Saint Gatien Cathedral Interior, Tours France
Paris: 1839. Color lithograph on medium-weight cream wove paper, 15 3/4 x 11 inches (400 x 278 mm), full margins. In good condition with some toning at the top margins, and general light, scattered surface soiling. Prout created this lithograph after one of his own watercolors for inclusion in Sketches in France, Switzerland and Italy; Sketches by Samuel Prout, Plate V, 1915.
Samuel Prout was born in Plymouth in 1783 to Samuel Prout Senior, a naval outfitter, and Mary Cater, a homemaker; the fourth of fourteen children. Prout grew up in the countryside, and spent his summers as a youth sketching and painting the bucolic valleys, thatched cottages, water mills, and serene rivers in Devon.
Item number: 1031
Price: $150.00
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