Welcome to the Watercolour World

The Watercolour World

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

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Llyn Idwal, Snowdonia, Wales

Villa of Maecenas, Tivoli, Rome, Italy

c.1826

Penhow Castle, Newport, Wales

St Mark's Square, Venice, Italy

1800-1899

Castel Sant'Elmo, Naples, Italy

Late 18th or early 19th century

Nice, France

February 1842

Scarborough Spa Bridge, Scarborough, England

1825-1882

Dover, Kent, England

1832

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France

19th Century

England

ca. 1797

Switzerland

late 19th Century

Recently digitised

Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England

St. John's Co-Cathedral, Valletta, Malta

1831

Harrow School, Harrow on the Hill, London, England

The Pamir Mountains, Tajikistan

Cromac, Belfast, Northern Ireland

1805

Tokyo, Japan

1858

Malta

19th Century

Taku-Forts, Tianjin, China

ca.1858

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Collections Block A

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Nasjonalmuseet for kunst, arkitektur og design

Wiltshire Museum, Devizes

Norfolk Museums Service

National Gallery of Art, Washington

Muzeul de Artă Cluj-Napoca

Art Institute of Chicago

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