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FACSIMILES OF SKETCHES MADE IN FLANDERS AND GERMANY AND DRAWN ON STONE BY SAMUEL PROUT. PAINTER IN WATER COLOURS IN ORDINARY TO HIS MAJESTY.
1833, Hullmandel, folio, fifty black and white lithographic plates, complete, binding distressed.
Samuel Prout (1783-1852). Born in Plymouth, Devon, educated at Plymouth Grammar School and encouraged to sketch by the headmaster, Dr. Bidlake. In 1802 he moved to London and learned his trade in the circle of the publisher John Britton.
For most of his career a significant proportion of Prout's income came from the print trade, indeed his account book for 1811-16 in the North Devon Athenaeum Barnstaple, lists more than 1330 watercolours and sepia wash drawings bought for a total of £800 by Thomas Palser and Rudolph Ackermann.
Prout's finest work in lithograph, Illustrations of the Rhine (1822?6), displaying wide and spacious river landscapes, was untypical and was followed by more restricted and characteristic urban ?close-ups? in his nevertheless splendid Facsimiles of Sketches Made in Flanders and Germany (fifty plates, 1833), executed in tinted (two-toned) lithograph. This ambitious book was published independently by subscription and from it Prout made some £2000 over three years.
Samuel Prout (1783-1852). Born in Plymouth, Devon, educated at Plymouth Grammar School and encouraged to sketch by the headmaster, Dr. Bidlake. In 1802 he moved to London and learned his trade in the circle of the publisher John Britton.
For most of his career a significant proportion of Prout's income came from the print trade, indeed his account book for 1811-16 in the North Devon Athenaeum Barnstaple, lists more than 1330 watercolours and sepia wash drawings bought for a total of £800 by Thomas Palser and Rudolph Ackermann.
Prout's finest work in lithograph, Illustrations of the Rhine (1822?6), displaying wide and spacious river landscapes, was untypical and was followed by more restricted and characteristic urban ?close-ups? in his nevertheless splendid Facsimiles of Sketches Made in Flanders and Germany (fifty plates, 1833), executed in tinted (two-toned) lithograph. This ambitious book was published independently by subscription and from it Prout made some £2000 over three years.
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