Word: prout
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...valuable drawings by Samuel Prout, the celebrated English water-color artist, have been taken from the walls of the freehand drawing room in Robinson Hall. One of these was a pencil and reed-pen drawing in brown ink of Louvain cathedral: the other and more valuable drawing was a small water-color of a mediaeval bridge and gate-tower with figures...
...that steady and gratifying progress has been made in the formation of a valuable working collection of original works of art. Chief among these are the undetermined head in red marble, and the four paintings of religions subjects, presented by Mr. Edward W. Forbes '95. Two drawings by Samuel Prout two by John Ruskin, and a water color by J. M. W. Turner, have been acquired,--the last being an exceptionally fine example of Turner's early style...
...Fine Arts Department has lately acquired and deposited in the Fogg Museum two drawings by Samuel Prout, and two drawings by John Ruskin. These drawings are of Architectural subjects in France and in Flanders, and are all admirable examples of picturesque architectural delineation. There is also an early water color drawing by Turner, a view of a gentleman's country-seat with wooded grounds, which is an unusually fine example of Turner's early manner. These drawings are now hung on the south wall of the large gallery together with others by various masters of the early English water color...
...water colors, "The Thames River by Moonlight," by David Cox, and "The Stone House, Plymouth," by Samuel Prout, have been recently purchased and added to the art gallery...