La Place de la Pucelle.
London: R. Bower, 1825. Aquatint with hand-coloring in watercolor on cream wove paper, 10 3/4 x 13 5/8 inches (273 x 346 mm), full margins. Plate No. 8 from a collection of fac-similes of watercolors by Prout. .
A market scene; the spot on which the execution of Joan of Arc took place.
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: 779
Price: $500.00
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