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Description of the Artwork
Overall view of the Samuel Prout water-colour (frame omitted from the present discussion). The composition—executed in transparent water-colour washes on a warm cream wove sheet—opens onto a low-lying, windswept shoreline at ebb tide. Prout organises the scene along a gentle diagonal that starts in the near left corner with a fragment of weather-blacked timber staging, crosses the hull of a beached coble in the immediate foreground, and dissolves into a distant promontory rendered in the palest grey-violet wash.
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Technical Observations and Further Insights
Macro detail of the central activity: note Prout's pen-and-ink hatchings on the clinker planks and the transparent wet‐in‐wet washes in the tide pools. The sheet is a lightly sized cream wove (\( \) 130–150 gsm), typical of the Whatman \ Hollingsworth papers that Prout favoured in the 1820s–30s. Under 10× magnification a uniformly spaced chain-line grid (\( \!\!25\) mm intervals) is visible, corroborating a machine-made rag wove rather than earlier laid stock.
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Frame and Back
Verso of framing package: gilded compo frame, MDF back-board, kraft paper dust-cover and brass wire suspension. The water-colour is floated in a gilt‐gesso reverse‐ogee frame (c. 1920s) with anthemion corner shells and an intact matt and burnished water-gilded surface.
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Comparative Context within Prout's Marine Work
To place the present sheet A1 (see ) in a richer stylistic continuum, six related coastal subjects by Samuel Prout have been assembled for comparison (Fig. Executed between roughly 1818 and 1851, they confirm a persistent interest in beached hulls, low-tide mudflats and the labour of ordinary seafarers—motifs that underpin Prout's reputation before his celebrated architectural phase. 1820 0.32 (c) Coastal Scene with Jetty , c.
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Comparative Context within Prout's Marine WorkTo place the present sheet A1 (see ) in a richer stylistic continuum, six related coastal subjects by Samuel Prout have been assembled for comparison (Fig. Executed between roughly 1818 and 1851, they confirm a persistent interest in beached hulls, low-tide mudflats and the labour of ordinary seafarers—motifs that underpin Prout's reputation before his celebrated architectural
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