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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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Asia

1790-1830

England

Nile River

31 March 1865

Utrecht, Netherlands

1835-1845

Vlijtstraat 13, Utrecht, Netherlands

December 1912

Rottingdean Beach, Sussex, England

10 August 1836

Symonds Yat, Herefordshire, England

1825

Old Nuuk, Nuuk, Greenland

Maxstoke, Warwickshire, England

Kalisbrug, Utrecht, Netherlands

1873

Riva del Garda, Trentino, Italy

1840s?

Halki, Greece

19 September 1875

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England

undated

Amsterdam, Netherlands

1862 - 1867

Europe

Recently digitised

USA

1844

Sheffield, Yorkshire, England

1885

Mercy Bay, Banks Island, Inuvik, Canada

15 April 1853

England

Saint-Jeannet, Alpes-Maritimes, France

1910

Nile River

1864-1865

South Tyrol, Italy

1840s

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

3 August 1886

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Nova Scotia Museum

The Hopetoun Collection

HET Utrechts Archief

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