Bay of Naples / Samuel Prout
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Record Details
- Accession Number
- 2009/1.511.2
- Title
- Bay of Naples
- Artist
- Samuel Prout
- Artist Nationality
- British
- Artist Life Dates
- (1783 - 1852)
- Medium and Support
- watercolor, bodycolor, pen with brown ink on paper
- Object Creation Date
- 1824-1852
- Object Creation Place
- Europe (continent)
- United Kingdom (nation)
- England (country)
- Creation Place 1
- Europe (continent)
- Creation Place 2
- United Kingdom (nation)
- Creation Place 3
- England (country)
- Credit Line
- Joseph F. McCrindle Collection
- Style/Group/Movement
- Picturesque
- Dimensions
- 18.42 cm x 20.96 cm (7 1/4 in. x 8 1/4 in.)
- Century
- 19th century
- Primary Object Classification
- Drawing
- Primary Object Type
- landscape
- Physical Description
- Three figures stand in a wooded clearing in the foreground of this small watercolor. A view opens out in the middle ground over a bay with a city descending from the adjacent hills to the water. A volcano smolders in the distance on the opposite side of the bay, a thick plume of smoke rising from its peak.
- Subject Matter
- Samuel Prout presents in this intimate watercolor a view across the Bay of Naples, with the famous peak of Mount Vesuvius visible in the distance. Prout made numerous drawings of Naples and other sites during his tours of Italy, of which he made at least two between 1824 and 1830. The watercolor, however, was probably made by Prout in England, perhaps many years after his visit.
- Secondary Keywords
- scale
- bodies of water
- bodies of water and components of bodies of water
- bodies of water by location
- buildings and the land
- coastline bodies of water
- europe (continent)
- geographic and political locations
- landforms
- landforms and landform components
- landforms by formation process
- landscapes (environments)
- magmatic landforms
- natural landscapes
- objects we use
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- paintings by material or technique
- settlements
- settlements and landscapes
- settlements by form
- visual works
- visual works by medium or technique
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Technical Details
- Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 3292 x 2068
- File Size
- 482 KB
- Record
- 2009/1.511.2
- Link to this Item
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"Bay of Naples; Samuel Prout." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-2009-sl-1.511.2/2009_1.511.2.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed March 28, 2024.