Samuel Prout (1783–1852), The Castle at Heidelberg
, Pencil, Purchased as the gift of Countess Elsie Lee Gozzi
, 1988.3
This is an example of Prout's exceptional topographic draftsmanship. The artist first traveled to Germany in the early 1820s; he reproduced many of his drawings as lithographs in Illustrations of the Rhine, 1824, and Facsimiles of Sketches Made in Flanders and Germany, 1833.