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.

 
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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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Illustrated Book, Description and Travel, Goldfields, Gold mines, Australian Colonial Art
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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
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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.

 
creator of
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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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.

 
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Sydney illustrated
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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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References [<ExternalResource: Prout, John Skinner (c.1834), 'The Castles and Abbeys of Monmouthshire'.>, <ExternalResource: Prout, John Skinner (c.1834), 'Antiquities of Chester'.>, <ExternalResource: Prout, John Skinner (c.1834), 'Antiquities of York'.>, <ExternalResource: Thomas, D., North, I., & McCarthy F. (1972), 'The Australian Landscape'.>, <ExternalResource: Brown, Tony (1984), 'John Skinner Prout, his Tasmanian sojourn 1844-48', Art Bulletin of Tasmania, Hobart, Tas.>, <ExternalResource: Prout, J.S. (1844), 'Journal of a Voyage from Plymouth to Sydney in Australia on board the Emigrant Ship Royal Sovereign, with a Short Description of Sydney', London, England, UK.>, <ExternalResource: Sayers, A. (1989), 'Drawing in Australia', Canberra, ACT.>, <ExternalResource: Solly, N. (1875), 'Memoir of the Life of William Muller', London, England, UK.>, <ExternalResource: Prout, John Skinner (1834), 'Picturesque Antiquities of Bristol', C. Hullmandel (publisher), London, England, UK.>, <ExternalResource: Prout, John Skinner and Rae, John (1842), 'Sydney Illustrated', Part 1, Sydney, NSW.>, <ExternalResource: Prout, John Skinner and Rae, John (1842), 'Sydney Illustrated', Part 2, Sydney, NSW.>, <ExternalResource: Prout, John Skinner and Rae, John (1844), 'Sydney Illustrated', Part 3, Sydney, NSW.>, <ExternalResource: Prout, John Skinner and Rae, John (c.1844), 'Sydney Illustrated', Part 4, Hobart Town, Van Diemen's Land (Tas.).>, <ExternalResource: (1846), Examiner, February, 7.>, <ExternalResource: (1862), Launceston Examiner, November, 11.>, <ExternalResource: Brown, Tony, 'John Skinner Prout, a colonial artist', Art and Australia, vol. 22, no. 4, 1985 (reprinted in Considering Art in Tasmania, Sydney, NSW 1985).>, <ExternalResource: Brown, Tony (1986), 'Skinner Prout in Australia 1840-48', Catalogue, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, Tas. (with full bibliography).>, <ExternalResource: Brown, Tony (1986), 'Art exhibitions in Tasmania during the nineteenth century--a chronology', Art Bulletin of Tasmania, Hobart, Tas.>, <ExternalResource: Brown, Tony, 'Lithographic works of John Skinner Prout', Catalogue raisonné (manuscript in author's possession).>, <ExternalResource: Prout, J. S. (1848), 'The fine arts in Australia', Art-Union, November, 1, London, England, UK.>, <ExternalResource: Prout, J. S. (1850), 'Prout's Dioramic Views of Australia, Illustrative of Convict and Emigrant Life', London, England, UK.>, <ExternalResource: Prout, J. S. (1862), 'The sketcher in Tasmania', Once a Week, March, 1, 8.>, <ExternalResource: Information sourced from Callaway, A.>] [<ExternalResource: Prout, John Skinner (c.1834), 'The Castles and Abbeys of Monmouthshire'.>, <ExternalResource: Prout, John Skinner (c.1834), 'Antiquities of Chester'.>, <ExternalResource: Prout, John Skinner (c.1834), 'Antiquities of York'.>, <ExternalResource: Thomas, D., North, I., & McCarthy F. (1972), 'The Australian Landscape'.>]