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The Watercolour World

The known world before photography

A free database of pre-1900 documentary watercolours from private as well as public collections around the world

Founders: Fred Hohler and Javad Marandi

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South Pacific Ocean

Licenza, Italy

Maxstoke, Warwickshire, England

Vienna, Austria

1852

Cairo, Egypt

1874

Chailot, Paris, France

Crimean Peninsula

Jan. 1 1855

Dowth, County Meath, Republic of Ireland

ca. 1780-1800

Black Castle, County Wicklow, Republic of Ireland

ca. 1780-1800

Naples, Campania, Italy

1883

Pen Dinas Hill Fort, Penparcau, Ceredigion, Wales

ca. 1840

Turton Tower, Chapeltown, North Turton, Lancashire, England

c.1850

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England

19th century

British Isles

1802

England

ca. 1810

Recently digitised

Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England

Europe

1904

Saint-Jeannet, Alpes-Maritimes, France

1910

Sheffield, Yorkshire, England

1885

Menton, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France

1904

England

1909

Parish church St. Michael Stalden, Stalden, Valais canton, Switzerland

3 August 1886

Duomo di Milano, Piazza del Duomo, Milan, Italy

1826

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The National Library of Wales

National Galleries of Scotland

Christie's

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