John Skinner Prout b. 19 December 1805

  • Artist (Printmaker),
  • Artist (Painter)
Prout was a painter, lithographer, art teacher and writer. An Australian critic once described his works as 'one of those wild and scattery bits, both in form and colour, which so nearly verge on the grotesque, that they stamp their authors as "genius run mad"'.
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creator of
Mary from the Hampshire Hills
 
creator of
Neptune, Circular Head, & his Son, Moriarty, Flinders
 
creator of
Amelia & her Little Bobby, Cape Grim V.D.L.
 
creator of
Burning of the Albion Mills, Sydney
 
creator of
Moonlight Scene in Wales
 
creator of
Snow Piece in Ireland
 
creator of
Tree Fern
 
creator of
Australia
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Works on paper
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Illustrated Book, Description and Travel, Illustrator, Australian Colonial Art
URL
http://cat.lib.unimelb.edu.au/record=b2837692

London : Virtue, vi, 124 p., [63] leaves of plates; vii, p. 126 – p. 232, [55] leaves of plates, 9 col. maps ; 27 cm. Illustrated with drawings by John Skinner Prout, Nicholas Chevalier, etc.

 
creator of
The emigrant in Australia, or, Gleanings from the gold-fields
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Illustrated Book, Description and Travel, Illustrator, Goldfields, Australian Colonial Art
URL
http://cat.lib.unimelb.edu.au/record=b1277826

London: Addey and Co., (London : Petter, Duff, and Co.), 91 p., [8] leaves of plates (some folded): ill., 4 maps; 19 cm.

 
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An illustrated handbook of the voyage to Australia and a visit to the gold fields
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Works on paper
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Illustrated Book, Description and Travel, Goldfields, Gold mines, Australian Colonial Art
URL
http://cat.lib.unimelb.edu.au/record=b1306721

London?: s.n., (London : Petter, Duff, and Co.), vi, 32, [2] p. : ill. ; 19 cm.

 
creator of
Voyage to Australia
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Updated.

 
creator of
Adventures in Australia
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Works on paper
Tags
Illustrated Book, Description and Travel, Illustrator
URL
http://cat.lib.unimelb.edu.au/record=b1482421

London : Grant and Griffith, xi, 364 p., [4] leaves of plates : ill. ; 18 cm.

 
creator of
Voyage to Australia
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Diorama.

 
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Agnes from Ben Lomond
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creator of
Cranky Dick
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creator of
Methinna
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creator of
Lallah Rookh [Trukanini] from the Huon
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creator of
Queen Flora of Oyster Bay
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creator of
Tasmania illustrated
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Medium
Works on paper
Tags
Illustrated Book, Australian Colonial Art, Lithography
URL
http://cat.lib.unimelb.edu.au/record=b1650601

Hobart Town : [s.n.], vol. 1, 20 prints: tinted lithograph; sheet 37 × 53 cm.

 
creator of
Sydney illustrated
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Medium
Works on paper
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Illustrated Book, Australian Colonial Art, Description and Travel
URL
http://cat.lib.unimelb.edu.au/record=b1306726

Sydney: [J.S. Prout], 42 p., [15] leaves of plates (3 folded): ill., map; 42 cm.

 
creator of
Alderly Mill, Buckinghamshire
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