1810-1850 Watercolour on rag paper, mounted on cream card
442 x 304 mm. Bequest: George Powell 1882
This painting, attributed to 'Hoquet' in the written Powell inventory, may be by the English watercolour artist Samuel Prout. There exists a much more detailed print by him of the same scene. It could be that this was an on-the-spot sketch later worked up for reproduction as a print - or alternatively it is a copy made by another artist from the print
Townscape / street scene in the Low Countries; foreground, on the left, a half-timbered building, baskets and a woman with a child, on the right, women at market stalls; middleground, the side of an old building with gothic carvings, a hoist and two open windows one with a blue curtain and one with a standing man; background, on the right, two houses and a church, the latter with steeple topped by a cross. Painted in outline in sepia and grey wash with detail added throughout
