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Interior of a Cathedral
by Samuel Prout
About the Artwork
Samuel Prout’s watercolors of picturesque views and architectural marvels of Italy, France, Germany, and Switzerland attracted a wide audience, helped inspire travel, and shaped the English perception of Continental Europe. The influential critic John Ruskin became a close friend, neighbor, and great supporter of the artist, declaring in the Art Journal in 1849 that no other artist expressed architectural detail in more "splendid accumulation" or "patient love" than Prout.
Inscriptions
signed, in brown ink, at lower right: SProut
Provenance
?-?: A. D. Halford, Esq. 1912: (sale, Victor G. Fischer Company Collection, Anderson Galleries, New York, February 19, 1912, no. 648) ?-1931: James Parmelee [1855-1931], Washington, DC, by descent to Alice Maury Parmelee 1931-1940: Alice Maury Parmelee [1866-1940], Washington, DC, bequeathed to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH through the Estate of James Parmelee 1940-: Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Exhibition history
The Birth and Flowering of British Romantic Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 1-July 22, 1990).
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Samuel Prout (British, 1783–1852)
- Date
- c. 1820s
- Medium
- gray and brown wash with point of brush and pen and brown ink with watercolor heightened with gouache
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 43.3 x 30 cm (17 1/16 x 11 13/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- Drawing
- Department
- Drawings
- Credit line
- Bequest of James Parmelee
- Accession no.
- 1940.560
More by Samuel Prout in museum collections
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Open-access museum record · AT-00011147
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