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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Mary from the Hampshire Hills
 
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Neptune, Circular Head, & his Son, Moriarty, Flinders
 
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Amelia & her Little Bobby, Cape Grim V.D.L.
 
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Burning of the Albion Mills, Sydney
 
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Moonlight Scene in Wales
 
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Snow Piece in Ireland
 
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Tree Fern
 
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Australia
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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
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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.

 
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Voyage to Australia
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Adventures in Australia
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Illustrated Book, Description and Travel, Illustrator
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http://cat.lib.unimelb.edu.au/record=b1482421

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

 
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Voyage to Australia
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Diorama.

 
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Agnes from Ben Lomond
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Cranky Dick
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Methinna
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Lallah Rookh [Trukanini] from the Huon
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Queen Flora of Oyster Bay
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Tasmania illustrated
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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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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.

 
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Alderly Mill, Buckinghamshire
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