id:			119725
accession number:	1940.560
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1940.560
updated:		2023-03-07 15:13:37.670000

Interior of a Cathedral, c. 1820s. Samuel Prout (British, 1783–1852). Gray and brown wash with point of brush and pen and brown ink with watercolor heightened with gouache; sheet: 43.3 x 30 cm (17 1/16 x 11 13/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of James Parmelee 1940.560

title:				Interior of a Cathedral
title in original language:	
series:				
series in original language:	
creation date:			c. 1820s
creation date earliest:		1820
creation date latest:		1829
current location:		
creditline:			Bequest of James Parmelee
copyright:			

---

culture:	England, 19th century
technique:	gray and brown wash with point of brush and pen and brown ink with watercolor heightened with gouache
department:	Drawings
collection:	DR - British
type:		Drawing
find spot:	
catalogue raisonne: 

---

CREATORS

* Samuel Prout (British, 1783–1852)  - artist

---

measurements: Sheet: 43.3 x 30 cm (17 1/16 x 11 13/16 in.)
state of the work:	
edition of the work: 	

support materials:

	description:	heavy, moderately textured cream wove paper
	watermarks:	

inscriptions:

	inscription:	signed, in brown ink, at lower right: SProut
	translation:	
	remark:		

---

CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		The Birth and Flowering of British Romantic Art
	opening date:   1990-05-01T04:00:00
	<i>The Birth and Flowering of British Romantic Art</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 1-July 22, 1990).

---

LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* Lemonedes, Heather. British Drawings: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Published on the occasion of the exhibition "British Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art" shown 10 Feb to 26 May 2013 at the Cleveland Museum of Art. London: D Giles Limited, 2013. Cat 21, pg 68-9.

---

PROVENANCE

	A. D. Halford, Esq.
	date: ?-?
	footnotes: 	
	citations: 	


	(sale, Victor G. Fischer Company Collection, Anderson Galleries, New York, February 19, 1912, no. 648)
	date: 1912
	footnotes: 	
	citations: 	


	James Parmelee [1855-1931], Washington, DC, by descent to Alice Maury Parmelee
	date: ?-1931
	footnotes: 	
	citations: 	


	Alice Maury Parmelee [1866-1940], Washington, DC, bequeathed to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH through the Estate of James Parmelee
	date: 1931-1940
	footnotes: 	
	citations: 	


	Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1940-
	footnotes: 	
	citations: 	


---

fun fact:
Rather than showing a specific church, this drawing seems to depict an amalgamation of Gothic architecture, capturing a mood and not a particular place.

digital description:
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.

wall description:
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.
---

RELATED WORKS

---

CITATIONS

	Francis, Henry S. "The Bequest of James Parmelee." <em>Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 28, no. 2 (February 1941): 15-27, 31.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 17
	url:		https://www.jstor.org/stable/25140904

	Lemonedes, Heather. <em>British Drawings: The Cleveland Museum of Art. </em>Exh. Cat. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2013.
	page number: 	Mentioned: pp. 68-69, 147, no. 21; Reproduced: p. 69
	url:		

---

IMAGES

web:	https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1940.560/1940.560_web.jpg
print:	https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1940.560/1940.560_print.jpg
full:	https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1940.560/1940.560_full.tif