What is a Watercolour?
Watercolour paint is made by mixing pigments with a binder, usually gum arabic, and then applying it with water to a support such as vellum (fine animal skin) or paper.
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Watercolours of the Great Exhibition
These eleven watercolours were made just before the Great Exhibition opened and are part of a larger group of images that were reproduced both as colour and monochrome lith…
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Night scenes from the V&A's watercolour collection
Dreams and nightmares, lovers' trysts and erotic encounters, the supernatural and the magical, the Romantic landscape and the modern cityscape. The night has long been a su…
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Watercolour painting: materials & techniques
Watercolour paint is a combination of a pigment and a water-soluble binder, usually gum arabic. The pigments may be natural or man-made.
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Three Watercolours from the Paper Museum of Cassiano dal Pozzo
Three watercolours from the ‘Paper Museum’ of Cassiano dal Pozzo.
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'Recording Britain' collection at the V&A
Recording Britain was the brainchild of Sir Kenneth Clark, who saw it as an extension of the Official War Artist scheme.
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British watercolours 1750-1900: the watercolour societies of the 19th century
The establishment of exhibition societies was one of the great innovations in artistic life in 18th-century Britain. The Society of Artists opened in 1760 and the Royal Aca…
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Victorian Sentimental Prints, Drawings & Watercolours
Scenes of tender feeling were popular during the Victorian period. They became associated with the home as they were ideal for display in family rooms and traditionally fem…
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Master drawings, watercolours and prints from the Ionides Bequest
Constantine Alexander Ionides (1833–1900) was an intimate of fashionable artistic circles in London and an enthusiastic and adventurous collector. His bequest to the V&A ha…
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British Watercolours: 1750-1950
The art of watercolour has had a distinctive identity and history in Britain since the latter part of the eighteenth century, when British artists fir…
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Spanning the Renaissance through to the early twentieth century, the Courtauld’s collection of prints and drawings is extensive.
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