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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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Bellaggio, Como, Italy

19 May, 1868

London, England

c.1836

Capesthorne Hall, Siddington, Cheshire, England

c.1837

Omsk, Siberia, Russia

1914

Tom Tower, Christchurch, Oxfordshire, England

c.1850

Guisborough Priory, Guisborough, North Yorkshire, England

3 August, 1881

British Isles

1793

Tahuata, Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia

South America

Toledo, Castille-La Mancha, Spain

St. George's, Grenada

March 1865

Rialto Bridge, Venice, Italy

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Germany

1820 - 1896

England

British Isles

Undated

Recently digitised

England

Mercy Bay, Banks Island, Inuvik, Canada

15 April 1853

Nile River

1864-1865

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

3 August 1886

USA

1844

South Tyrol, Italy

1840s

Sheffield, Yorkshire, England

1885

Saint-Jeannet, Alpes-Maritimes, France

1910

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HET Utrechts Archief

Nova Scotia Museum

The Hopetoun Collection

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