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Watercolours
Works from the Fitzwilliam Museum
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Art History
Undergraduate 1
05/08/2017

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John Smart, Mrs Mary Tadman, 1809, Watercolour on Ivory
very neat, polished style
portrait miniatures - often exchanged between lovers, sign of mutual ownership, sometimes contained locks of hair
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George Dionysus Ehret, Botanical Albums, watercolour and bodycolour on vellum
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Paul Sandby, Tintern Abbey, Graphite and watercolour on paper, early 19thc
Topographical drawing - Sandby worked for ordnance survey
period of Napoleonic wars - nationalism
light paper provides lighting
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John Robert Cozens, Lake Nemi, graphite, ink and watercolour on paper, 18thc
Produced for grand tourists - made lots
limited tonal range - harmony
Cozens influenced Turner and Girtin
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John Varley, The Valley of Mawddach, 1805, black chalk and watercolour with scratching out on paper
Sublime
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Thomas Girtin, Lindisfarne Priory, 1797, Graphite and watercolour on paper
invented elements of priory
Turner greatly admired
convincing solid form
graphite used before watercolours
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John Sell Cotman, Dolgelly, North Wales, 1804, watercolour over graphite on paper
Norwich school
flat planes of colour
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Francis Towne, Lough Rigg, Ambleside, 1786, graphite, pen, ink and watercolour on paper
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Thomas Girtin, Storiths Heights, Bolton, 1800, watercolour on paper
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Turner, Richmond, Yorkshire, 1828, watercolour over graphite with gum arabic on paper
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Turner, Shakespeare Cliff, Dover, 1825, watercolour on paper
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Turner, Mossdale Fall, 1816, watercolour over graphite with scratching out on paper
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Turner, St Cloud, 1833, watercolour on paper
tiny - only 99x145mm long
ruskin loved the detail
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Turner, From Sarre looking towards Aymaville, val d'Aosta, 1836, watercolour and bodycolour with scratching out on paper
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Turner, Venice, Storm at Sunset, 1840, watercolour and bodycolour with pen and red ink and scratching out on paper
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Turner, Storm Cloud over a River, 1845, watercolour on paper
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Peter de Wint, Study of Trees at Lowther, 1839, watercolour with gum arabic with traces of graphite
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Peter de Wint, Sketch of a Treee and the hull of a boat at mooring, watercolour on paper
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Cornelius Varley, Three Studies of Snowdon, 1805, watercolour on paper
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John Linnell, Alpha Cottages, Watercolour on paper
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David Cox, Mountain Scene, Watercolour on paper, 19thc
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John Ruskin, In the Pass of Killiecrankie, 1857, watercolour and bodycolour on board
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William Henry Hunt, Fruit, 1840, watercolour and bodycolour on prepared ground on card
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John Frederick Lewis, The Noonday Halt, 1853, watercolour and bodycolour reinforced with gum arabic over traces of graphite on thin card
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John Frederick Lewis, The Siesta, before 1876, watercolour and bodycolour reinforced with gum arabic, traces of graphite and white heightening, on paper
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William Blake, The Archangel Michael Foretelling the crucifixion, 1822-7, pen, indian ink, grey wash and watercolour on paper
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Samuel Palmer, The Magic Apple Tree, 1830, Pen and India ink, and watercolour and gum
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James Abbott McNeil Whistler, Grey and Silver - North Sea, 1884, watercolour on wove paper
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Philip Wilson Steer, Shoreham, 1926, watercolour on paper
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Camille Pissarro, Spring, watercolour over black chalk under-drawing on paper, late nineteenth c
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Paul Cezanne, Les Bois, Aix en Provence, 1890, watercolour over graphite, on white paper
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John Singer Sargent, Palma Majorca, 1908, watercolour, bodycolour and traces of graphite on board
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David Jones, The Shepherdess, 1930, watercolour over graphite on paper
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Paul Nash, Clouds, Hill and the Plain, 1945, watercolour with graphite and chalks on board
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