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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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Santiago, Cape Verde

India

ca. 1820

Gwynedd, Wales

June 1887

Cairo, Egypt

1874

Montego Bay, Jamaica

1780

St Michael le Pole, Dublin, Republic of Ireland

ca. 1780-1800

Madhya Pradesh, India

ca. 1825

Black Castle, County Wicklow, Republic of Ireland

ca. 1780-1800

South Pacific Ocean

Pen Dinas Hill Fort, Penparcau, Ceredigion, Wales

ca. 1840

Crimean Peninsula

Jan. 1 1855

Vienna, Austria

1852

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Canongate, Edinburgh, Scotland

1852

Scotland

Netherlands

1715-1798

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Europe

1904

Saint-Jeannet, Alpes-Maritimes, France

1910

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

1904

Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England

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

3 August 1886

England

1909

Sheffield, Yorkshire, England

1885

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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