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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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Colosseum, Rome, Italy

Medina of Tunis, Tunis, Tunisia

1847

London, England

c.1836

British Isles

1793

Rialto Bridge, Venice, Italy

South America

Tom Tower, Christchurch, Oxfordshire, England

c.1850

Toledo, Castille-La Mancha, Spain

St. George's, Grenada

March 1865

Capesthorne Hall, Siddington, Cheshire, England

c.1837

Sriperumbudur, Tamil Nadu, India

Tahuata, Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia

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France

18th Century

England

undated

England

c.1825

Recently digitised

Saint-Jeannet, Alpes-Maritimes, France

1910

England

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

3 August 1886

South Tyrol, Italy

1840s

Mercy Bay, Banks Island, Inuvik, Canada

15 April 1853

USA

1844

Nile River

1864-1865

Sheffield, Yorkshire, England

1885

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HET Utrechts Archief

Nova Scotia Museum

The Hopetoun Collection

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