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The Watercolour World

We are a UK-based charity working with public and private collections from around the world to create a free online database of documentary watercolours painted before 1900. Browse our interactive map or use the search page to discover the world as it looked before photography.

We have added almost 10,000 new watercolours this month including images of Egypt, India, Italy, Malta, Mexico, Norway, Romania, Switzerland, and the USA.

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Paintings Block A

Fri, 10/04/2019 - 10:50

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Castel Sant'Elmo, Naples, Italy

Late 18th or early 19th century

Nice, France

February 1842

Dover, Kent, England

1832

Scarborough Spa Bridge, Scarborough, England

1825-1882

Penhow Castle, Newport, Wales

St Mark's Square, Venice, Italy

1800-1899

Llyn Idwal, Snowdonia, Wales

Villa of Maecenas, Tivoli, Rome, Italy

c.1826

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Latest feature

The Indian artists who worked with the west

A new exhibition celebrates the talented but neglected painters of the so-called 'Company School'

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Europe

Undated

Europe

before 1 March, 1839

Hastings, England

Recently digitised

Harrow School, Harrow on the Hill, London, England

Malta

19th Century

Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England

Tokyo, Japan

1858

The Pamir Mountains, Tajikistan

St. John's Co-Cathedral, Valletta, Malta

1831

Cromac, Belfast, Northern Ireland

1805

Taku-Forts, Tianjin, China

ca.1858

New collections

Collections Block A

Fri, 10/04/2019 - 10:46

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Nasjonalmuseet for kunst, arkitektur og design

Wiltshire Museum, Devizes

Norfolk Museums Service

National Gallery of Art, Washington

Muzeul de Artă Cluj-Napoca

Art Institute of Chicago

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