The Crypt at Kirkstall Abbey, Yorkshire
Pen and ink with black and brown ink and brown wash on buff wove paper, 10 3/8 x 9 3/8 inches (262 x 232 mm), the full sheet. Signed in brown ink in the lower right image area. In very good condition with some minor toning.
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.
Kirkstall Abbey is a ruined Cistercian monastery in Kirkstall, northwest of Leeds city center in West Yorkshire, England. It is set in a public park on the north bank of the River Aire. It was founded c. 1152, it was disestablished during the Dissolution of the Monasteries under Henry VIII.
Item number: 2340
Price: $4,000.00
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