British watercolours, 1750-1880
By: Andrew Wilton, Anne Lyles
Publisher: Prestel; Prestel USA
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Munich; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 285
ISBN-13: 9783791345390
Subjects: British Watercolor painting; Exhibitions
Description: This volume documents an important moment in the history of watercolour, as its practitioners moved from the tinted drawings to the creation of fully fledged works of art that rivaled oil paintings in their expressiveness and technical brilliance. The authors document the evolution of the British watercolour.
Notes: "First published on the occasion of the exhibition 'The Great Age of British Watercolours, 1750-1880', held at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, 15 January-12 April 1993, and at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 9 May-25 July 1993"--Colophon.

Previously published as: The Great age of British watercolours, 1750-1880.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [279]-281) and index.
Table of contents: title: Ambition and ambiguity: watercolour in Britain; title: The structure of landscape: eighteenth-century theory; title: Man in the landscape: the art of topography; title: Naturalism; title: Picturesque, antipicturesque: the composition of Romantic landscape; title: Light and atmosphere; title: The exhibition watercolour.