Artistic Possibilities and Aesthetic Choices: Watercolour Painting from the mid 18 th to the mid 19 th Century. Vivien Perutz

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1 Artistic Possibilities and Aesthetic Choices: Watercolour Painting from the mid 18 th to the mid 19 th Century Vivien Perutz

2 Francis Towne The Source of the Aveyron 1781 Pencil, pen and brown and blue inks, watercolour, scratching out. Victoria and Albert Museum Francis Towne The Banks of the Tiber 1781 Pencil, pen and brown ink, watercolour. British Museum

3 Thomas Hearne Edinburgh Castle from Arthur s Seat 1778 Ink, watercolour and gouache. Tate Gallery Thomas Girtin The West Front of Peterborough Cathedral Pencil and watercolour. Manchester, Whitworth Art Gallery

4 Paul Sandby Windsor Castle from the Maestricht Pond c.1765 Pencil and watercolour. Royal Collection John Robert Cozens Lake Nemi c Watercolour. Tate Gallery

5 TThomas Rowlandson after A.C.Pugin and, Exhibitionof Watercolour Drawings, Old Bond Street,1808 Engraving George Scharf, Exhibition of the New Society of Painters in Watercolour, 1834 Watercolour. Victoria and Albert Museum

6 Quill sable brushes Reeves paint box, Winslow Homer s brushes

7 Cutting the sorted rags into tiny pieces and beating them to a pulp The vatman at the right is dipping a mesh frame into the pulp which has fermented in water and lime. At the left the coucher is removing a sheet from a frame and is then shown a second time laying the sheet onto felt. The felts are removed and the sheets pressed before being dried (bottom left print). Images from Diderot s Encyclopédie

8 Sizing: paper is being dipped into a kettle of warm gelatin and alum after which it is pressed and dried again. The alum prevents microbes forming in the vat, increases the paper s resistance to liquids and prevents it from going mouldy. The finishers burnish papers that are to be smooth with a stone; at the right papers are again being pressed.

9 J.M.W. Turner The Leyen Burg at Gondorf c.1839 Gouache and watercolour on blue paper. Tate Gallery J.M.W. Turner St Martin s Church, Cochem 1839 Gouache and watercolour on blue paper. Tate Gallery

10 Paul Sandby Windsor Castle from the Maestricht Pond c.1765 Pencil and watercolour. Royal Collection Thomas Girtin The White House at Chelsea 1800 Watercolour. on laid drawing cartridge paper Tate Gallery 30x51 cm

11 Paul Sandby Survey party near Loch Rannoch, Scotland 1749 Pen and ink and watercolour, British Library

12 Paul Sandby Windsor Castle from the Maestricht Pond c.1765 Pencil and watercolour. Royal Collection Paul Sandby Old Shrewsbury Bridge 1780s Gouache, Fitzwilliam Museum

13 Francis Towne The Source of the Aveyron 1781 Pencil, pen and brown and blue inks, watercolour, scratching out. Victoria and Albert Museum Francis Towne The Banks of the Tiber 1781 Pencil, pen and brown ink, watercolour. British Museum

14 Alexander Cozens Plate from A New Method of Assisting the Invention in Drawing Compositions of Landscape c.1785 Aquatint. Tate Gallery Alexander Cozens Landscape with a Hill No date. Brown wash, brown ink, graphite. Fitzwilliam Museum

15 John Robert Cozens Cetara on the Gulf of Salerno 1790 Watercolour over graphite on wove paper Washington, National Gallery of Art John Robert Cozens Lake Nemi c Watercolour. Tate Gallery

16 J.W. M. Turner after John Robert Cozens Lake Albano c British Museum

17 John Robert Cozens A Cavern in the Campagna 1882 Watercolour V and A John Robert Cozens A Scene in Italy n.d. Watercolour V and A John Robert Cozens A Scene in Italy n.d. Watercolour V and A John Robert Cozens Shepherd s Hut between Naples and Portici c Watercolour V and A

18 Thomas Girtin Kirkstall Abbey c Pencil and watercolour. British Museum Thomas Girtin Kirkstall Abbey c Pencil and Watercolour. Victoria and Albert Museum 32 x52 cm

19 Thomas Girtin Harewood House from South East 1801 Watercolour. J.M.W Turner Harewood House from South East 1787 Pencil and watercolour. Tate Gallery

20 Jan van Os Flowers and Fruit Fitzwilliam Museum Master Hugo Christ in Majesty with Symbols of the Four Evangelists The Bury Bible c.1135 The Parker Library, Corpus Christi, Cambridge

21 Veronese Happy Union c.1575 National Gallery Tomaso Manzuoli The Visitation 1560 Fitzwilliam Museum, on loan to Trinity Hall

22 Thomas Girtin Pont-y-Pair, Bettws-y-Coed, North Wales c.1798 Pencil and watercolour. Tate Gallery Francis Towne The Source of the Aveyron 1781 Pencil, pen and brown and blue inks, watercolour, scratching out. Victoria and Albert Museum

23 J.W.M. Turner The Lake of Zug 1843 Watercolour over pencil. New York, Metropolitan Museum 30x46.6 cm

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27 J.W.M. Turner The Lake of Zug 1843 Watercolour over pencil. New York, Metropolitan Museum

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32 J.M.W. Turner Mossdale Fall c Pencil and watercolour and scraping out. Fitzwilliam Museum

33 Peter de Wint Travellers on the Sands near Redcar 1838 Watercolour and gouache over graphite with scratching out Washington, National Gallery 49x71.4 cm

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