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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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St. George's, Grenada

March 1865

Colosseum, Rome, Italy

Rialto Bridge, Venice, Italy

Mayfield Palace, East Sussex, England

28 September, 1852

South America

Guisborough Priory, Guisborough, North Yorkshire, England

3 August, 1881

London, England

c.1836

Capesthorne Hall, Siddington, Cheshire, England

c.1837

British Isles

1793

Tom Tower, Christchurch, Oxfordshire, England

c.1850

Medina of Tunis, Tunis, Tunisia

1847

Toledo, Castille-La Mancha, Spain

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India

undated

England

undated

Netherlands

1865 - 1913

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USA

1844

Sheffield, Yorkshire, England

1885

England

South Tyrol, Italy

1840s

Saint-Jeannet, Alpes-Maritimes, France

1910

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

3 August 1886

Mercy Bay, Banks Island, Inuvik, Canada

15 April 1853

Nile River

1864-1865

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HET Utrechts Archief

Nova Scotia Museum

The Hopetoun Collection

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