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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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Phare de Biarritz, Biarritz, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France

December 1879

Crimean Peninsula

Jan. 1 1855

Eglise Saint-Martin, Aincourt, Normandy, France

Cairo, Egypt

1874

Chailot, Paris, France

Madhya Pradesh, India

ca. 1825

Montego Bay, Jamaica

1780

Vienna, Austria

1852

Santiago, Cape Verde

Swyddffynnon, Ceredigion, Wales

ca. 1840

Tynemouth, Tyne and Wear, England

1891

England

1803

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Turkey

19th century

Europe

1760

England

1836

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

1904

Europe

1904

England

1909

Saint-Jeannet, Alpes-Maritimes, France

1910

Sheffield, Yorkshire, England

1885

Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England

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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