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The image shows a street-level view of architectural details and activity in a historical town setting. The scene is focused on buildings, street life, and a group of people near a building corner. The buildings feature ornate windows, balconies, and textured facades with fine linework and shading. The illustration style is precise with delicate brushstrokes or sketch lines. The color palette is monochrome using black and white. In the distance, people walk on a cobbled pathway, surrounded by trees, with a figure rowing a boat on a waterway. Birds are visible in the sky.
National Gallery of Art · Print
Bamberg
Samuel Prout
- Medium
- lithograph touched with white gouache on wove paper
- Dimensions
- image: 41.1 x 28.7 cm (16 3/16 x 11 5/16 in.) sheet: 54.5 x 36.9 cm (21 7/16 x 14 1/2 in.)
- Classification
- Accession number
- 1988.20.31
- Credit line
- Gift of John Nichols Estabrook and Dorothy Coogan Estabrook
- Time span
- 1776 to 1800
- Department
- CG-E
Subjects and terms
- British
- exterior
- architecture
- lithograph
- Bamberg
Inscription
on stone wall, lower right in plate: artist's monogram; lower center in plate: BAMBERG
NGA object ID 70360. Collection metadata is reproduced under CC0. This work is included because its NGA published-image record is marked open access; visitors should recheck the source record before substantial reuse.