The Watercolour World @watercolour_tww
Explore the world before photography. We're creating a free online archive of documentary watercolours which you can explore on an interactive world map watercolourworld.org Joined November 2018-
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Anybody recognise this church porch? We believe it's near Windsor. watercolour by Maria Miles (1826-1897), dated 1862 @berkschurches
Can you help us place this ‘River Landscape with Castle’ by Edward Francis Burney? buff.ly/3tQuuu7 📸 #YCBA, Public Domain #MondayMystery #whereintheworld #paintingoftheday
On this International Thank You Day, we send a special THANK YOU out to those who volunteer with us! buff.ly/33obt74 Queen Victoria's Levee for Volunteer Officers, St. James's Palace, 1860, Louis Haghe, Royal Collection Trust #InternationalThankYouDay
Can you assist us in identifying the grand building depicted in today’s mystery watercolour? buff.ly/2ZN4KC5 Untitled, Undated, Unknown Artist 📸image courtesy of a private collector, All Rights Reserved #MondayMystery #paintingoftheday
Do you recognise this hilltop village with a distinctive aqueduct or bridge? We’d love to identify this scene. buff.ly/2ZuT8Ub 📸courtesy of a private collector, All Rights Reserved #MondayMystery #watercolour #paintingoftheday
It's #MondayMystery time. This sketch of a ruined house and abbey was made by a member of the Tayleur family. If you recognise it, let us know so we can add it to our world map. buff.ly/2YXWsGH image © The #PotteriesMuseum & Art Gallery, All Rights Reserved #watercolour
Today’s mystery watercolour is this view of a cathedral with a ruined bridge. Can you help us identify the subject? buff.ly/3v0Vzci Nov 1857, by General James Maurice Primrose 📸Courtesy of a Private Collection, © All Rights Reserved #MondayMystery #watercolour
Can anyone identify this street scene with its distinctive covered walkways? buff.ly/2Yfubv5 📸image courtesy of a private collector, All Rights Reserved #MondayMystery #whereintheworld #watercolour
Do you recognise today’s mystery watercolour? Please let us know if you can help us identify this ‘Palace in India’? buff.ly/3lIkn4H Unknown Artist, 1850-1950 📸 #LibraryofCongress, LC-DIG-ppmsca-15664, ‘No known restrictions on publication’ #MondayMystery
Can you help us identify this grand interior? Do you recognise the coats of arms or the distinctive ceiling? buff.ly/3A8Qf8F Dated 1802-1869, by Edward Blore ©Trustees of the British Museum CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 #britishmuseum #statelyhome #MondayMystery #watercolour
Do you recognise this French château? Let us know if you can help us identify it. (Dated 1874, by Robert Elwes) buff.ly/3zTfdc6 📸Courtesy of a private collector| All Rights Reserved #MondayMystery #chateau #whereintheworld #watercolour #arthistory #paintingoftheday
Does anybody recognise this tower or know what it might be? An Observation Tower, after 1806, Samuel Davis buff.ly/3BxeYE2 image credit #yalecenterforbritishart |Public Domain #towers #whereintheworld #mysterylocation #watercolour #arthistory #paintingoftheday
Today’s #MondayMystery is ‘The Grey Castle’ by Thomas Girtin, 1795-1796. Can you help us identify this ruin? buff.ly/3sFXiTk 📸courtesy the #VancouverArtGallery, Public Domain #ruin #castle #whereintheworld #unknwon #mysterylocation #watercolour #arthistory
Today’s mystery watercolour is this ‘Coastal Village in Sussex’ by James Chisholm Gooden. Can you help us identify the village depicted? buff.ly/2VYoEYm 📸 #YaleCenterforBritishArt, Public Domain #Sussex #MondayMystery #mysterylocation #watercolour #arthistory
Today is World Elephant Day! In c.1870, Andrew Nicoll painted these elephants in Lake Minery (Minneriya, Sri Lanka). buff.ly/2Ub96A2 📸Royal Collection Trust/©Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2017|All Rights Reserved #worldelephantday #royalcollectiontrust
Here’s today’s mystery watercolour – can you help us identify this ruined castle? by Violet Elwes (1864-1941), dated 1881 buff.ly/3lND6xw 📸Courtesy of a private collector | Licence: All Rights Reserved #MondayMystery #whereintheworld #watercolour
Can you help us identify this ‘Iron Bridge on the Outskirts of an Industrial Town’? Dated 1871, painted by Thomas Charles Leeson Rowbotham buff.ly/3lrRBHb image credit #yalecenterforbritishart #MondayMystery #whereintheworld #watercolour #arthistory #paintingoftheday
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@watercolour_tww Looks like Stratton's Tower, Little Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire
@watercolour_tww Is it Bomarsund fortress?en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of…
@watercolour_tww The shape of the building and the height match the computer generated one and the small peninsular in front of the building is the same in both
@watercolour_tww View of the old Fowler’s Horizontal Mill, Battersea?
Our first sunny day on site and things are looking great
Gentlemen in a penny reading room showing the Victorian style of long coat, waistcoat, trousers and top hat. You can see the image on the London Picture Archive > ow.ly/r1mH50EH4as #FashionFriday #ExploreArchives #VictorianFashion #Clothes #LondonPictureArchive #Victorian
#OTD 1892 Margaret Skinnider, born in Glasgow. A socialist, militant suffragette & militant Republican, she fought in the Easter Rising with the Irish Citizen Army. A teacher, she became President of the INTO. She lived in Clontarf with her partner Nora O’Keeffe #irishwmnhist
Beranger often depicted himself in his paintings. Here he is at Merrion Castle, Co. Dublin, with his dog .... oh, where did the dog go!
Wednesday at 5ET: the wildly prolific Philadelphia artist Augustus Kollner, courtesy the @FreeLibrary Art Department and @PIX_FLP (Learn about him, that is, not from him: he died in 1906 but then we can't all live forever in a taxidermied stasis) eventbrite.com/e/art-of-augus…
Barbara McCormack from @Library_RIA highlights the important work of @watercolour_tww – a free database of pre-1900 documentary #watercolours that allow us to visualise the known world before photography watercolourworld.org #DRIResearch #OpenAccess
¿Sabías que colaboramos con @watercolour_tww para digitalizar obras de #arte históricas con la ayuda de nuestro escáner #contactless SV600? scansnapit.com/es/inspiration… #ScanSnap #digitalización
@watercolour_tww It looks like the Giralda bell tower in Seville en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giralda
@watercolour_tww Shanghai? Cut out comparison of buildings with bottom picture which is entitled 'The Bund, Shanghai, circa 1857'
@watercolour_tww Shanghai. Former Customs House visible.
Just found this delicious watercolour of the 'Market Place' in Llanrwst. c.1797 by Thomas Rowlandson, in the collection of Manchester Art Gallery. Lovely depiction of the Town Hall built by Maurice Wynn of Gwydir & dated 1662. Alas, demolished in the late 1960s. @watercolour_tww
We have just shared hundreds of Public Domain watercolours with the brilliant @watercolour_tww watercolourworld.org/collection/nat… It's great to be able to share our content with such a fantastic resource!
Bones col·laboracions donen com a fruit bons projectes. 🌱 Un viatge en el temps delicat, evocador, a través de les aquarel·les. Enhorabona @MuseuNac_Cat @watercolour_tww Una feina feta amb molta cura 👌
Coneixeu el projecte “The Watercolour World”? El museu participa en aquesta base de dades mundial d’aquarel·les documentals anteriors a 1900, indexades geogràficament. Us animem a accedir i explorar el món abans de la fotografia 👉 watercolourworld.org
The Digital Library That’s Preserving A Historical Archive artvoice.com/2020/07/28/the… @Arquivistica @watercolour_tww #Digitisation #Digital #Museum #Art #Archive #Library #Collection #Art #Culture #Heritage #History #Education #Accessibility
First there was @watercolour_tww using past art to trace changes in the environment around us; now #artgenetics is a thing, helping to 'demonstrate when and where particular [plant] varieties emerged, how common they were' etc. news.artnet.com/art-world/artg…
@watercolour_tww Foro Di Nerva etching by Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778).
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