ID 1248133
Lot 239 | SAMUEL PROUT, O.W.S. (PLYMOUTH 1783-1852 LONDON)
Estimate value
£ 5 000 – 8 000
The Doge's Palace and the Grand Canal, Venice, looking west
signed 'S Prout' (lower right) and signed again and inscribed 'S. Prout Esqr / 5 de Crespigny Terrace / Denmark Hill / With great care / to be kept very dry.' (on the artist's label, attached to the backboard)
pencil, pen and brown ink and watercolour, heightened with touches of bodycolour and with scratching out on paper
21 ¾ x 30 ¾ in. (55 x 78 cm.)
Provenance
Probably sold by the artist to John Clowes Grundy, Manchester, 1850.
Ronald Marshall Brooks, until 2019.
| Artist: | Samuel Prout (1783 - 1852) |
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| Applied technique: | Painted, Watercolor |
| Genre: | Cityscape |
| Place of origin: | Northern Europe, Europe, United Kingdom |
| Category: | Drawings |
| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Watercolors and drawings |
| Artist: | Samuel Prout (1783 - 1852) |
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| Applied technique: | Painted, Watercolor |
| Genre: | Cityscape |
| Place of origin: | Northern Europe, Europe, United Kingdom |
| Category: | Drawings |
| Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Watercolors and drawings |
| Address of auction |
CHRISTIE'S 8 King Street, St. James's SW1Y 6QT London United Kingdom | |
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