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Samuel Prout
1783-1852
A mill at Coldrenick, Cornwall
1808
Watercolor and graphite on wove paper.
10 1/2 x 15 3/8 inches (267 x 391 mm)
Purchased on the Charles Ryskamp Fund.
2019.120
Notes:
In 1812 Prout published a set of soft-ground etchings entitled Picturesque Delineations in the Counties of Devon and Cornwall. This watercolor may relate to this publication as the etchings' scenes of aged rural buildings are reminiscent of this cottage and mill.
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Inscribed: "Mill at Coldrenick/...Jan 7. 1808" (on part of the old backing); signed "Prout" lower right.
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