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Hotel de Ville Brunswick

Maker

(artist)
1783-1852

(lithographer)
1783-1852

(publisher)
1789-1850

Title

Hotel de Ville Brunswick

Date of Production

1833

Medium

printed on chine collé

Dimensions

Height: 41 cm
Width: 27.1 cm

Accession Number

G.1990.WL.6998

Mode of Acquisition

Witt Library, transfer, 1990

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords










Label Text

The relatively new process of lithography enabled artists to make a drawing on a stone plate, from which it could be printed. Prout was a keen exponent, producing picturesque views of Britain and the Continent for the popular market. Most admired were architectural street scenes such as this from the largest and most influential of his series. The volume appealed to John Ruskin, a student of Prout, and was the inspiration for his family’s first extended Continental tour.

Notes

From Facsimiles of sketches made in Flanders and Germany, a series of fifty lithographs published in 1833 by Charles Hullmandel.

Provenance

Information not yet known or updated

Exhibition History

Purpose and Process: British and French Printmaking 1600 - 1900, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 14/05/2014-20/06/2014

Literature

Assmann-Beck, Sibylle, Samuel Prout's Illustrations of the Rhine And some other topographical views, 2004; vol. V, no. 3: The British Art Journal
Fig. p. 43, no. 5 (repr.)

Sketches by Samuel Prout, in France, Belgium, Germany, Italy and Switzerland
Fig. p. p. 25 (mentioned), plate XL (reproduced)

Inscriptions

Inscription: HOTEL DE VILLE / BRUNSWICK //

Inscription: N. 6 / SP //

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