British Watercolours 1750-1900: Learning to Look - Landscape and the Imagination

From the 1750s drawing increasingly formed part of the education of both gentlemen and ladies, as seen in Thomas Rowlandson's 'The Country House'. Many watercolour painters were also drawing masters, and encouraged students towards a taste for landscape painting.

  • The Country House



    Watercolour
    Thomas Rowlandson
    About 1800
    Museum no. P.117-1931

    Watercolour over traces of black chalk on paper

  • The Tour of Dr Syntax in Search of the Picturesque



    Watercolour
    Thomas Rowlandson
    About 1812
    Museum no. DYCE.813

    Watercolour, pen and ink, on paper

  • Drawing



    Alexander Cozens
    1763
    Museum no. DYCE.669

    Drawn with a pen in bistre and sepia, and slightly washed

  • Claude glass



    Unknown maker
    1775 - 1780
    Museum no. P.18-1972

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