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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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Licenza, Italy

Tynemouth, Tyne and Wear, England

1891

Brihadisvara Temple, Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu, India

c. 1790 - 1800

Pen Dinas Hill Fort, Penparcau, Ceredigion, Wales

ca. 1840

Gwynedd, Wales

June 1887

Santiago, Cape Verde

Eglise Saint-Martin, Aincourt, Normandy, France

Crimean Peninsula

Jan. 1 1855

Vienna, Austria

1852

Dowth, County Meath, Republic of Ireland

ca. 1780-1800

Chailot, Paris, France

Netherlands

ca. 1830s

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Netherlands

18th Century

Mediterranean Coast, France

India

1850 - 1950

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Sheffield, Yorkshire, England

1885

Saint-Jeannet, Alpes-Maritimes, France

1910

Europe

1904

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

1904

England

1909

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

3 August 1886

Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England

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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