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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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North America

Mysore (Mysuru), India

c. 1800

Kolkata, India

1837-1843

Lake Timsah, Suez Canal, Egypt

September 1886

England

Māhina, Tahiti, French Polynesia

1791-1811

New South Wales, Australia

1860

Place Vendôme, Paris, Île-de-France, France

28 July 1835

Dunluce Castle, County Antrim, Northern Ireland

1875

Australia

1790s

Pont d'Avignon, Avignon, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France

c.1836

Kloster Święty Krzyż, Nowa Słupia, Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, Poland

1849

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Australia, as drawn by convicts

In the early days of European settlement, many of the most talented artists in Australia were serving sentences

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British Isles

England

France

second half 19th Century

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China

The Norfolk Broads, Norfolk, England

1885

Three Oaks Farm, Wadhurst, East Sussex, England

27 April 1880

Australia

Gibraltar Harbour, Gibraltar

c.1850

Castle Amerongen, Netherlands

Millwall, London, England

c.1830

Grove Park, Budbrooke, Warwickshire, England

1850

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American Philosophical Society Library & Museum

State Library of New South Wales

The Linnean Society of London, Buchanan-Hamilton’s natural history drawings

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