Papermaking and the art of watercolor in eighteenth-century Britain
Subtitle: Paul Sandby and the Whatman Paper Mill
By: Theresa Fairbanks Harris and Scott Wilcox ; with essays and contributions by Stephen Daniels, Maureen Green, and Michael Fuller.
Contributors: Sandby, Paul, 1731-1809.; Wilcox, Scott, 1952-; Yale Center for British Art.
Publisher: Yale University Press, in association with the Yale Center for British Art
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New Haven [Conn.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 164
ISBN-13: 9780300114355
Subjects: Sandby, Paul, 1731-1809. -- Exhibitions.; Sandby, Paul, 1731-1809 -- Criticism and interpretation.; Whatman, James, 1702-1759 -- Exhibitions.; Whatman, James, 1741-1798 -- Exhibitions.; Watercolor paper -- England -- Exhibitions.; Papermaking -- Great Britain -- History -- 18th century -- Exhibitions.
Genres: Exhibitions.
Description: "This handsome and engaging book looks at how Vinters and Turkey Mill is a superb example of Sandby's art and an important document both of the rise of industry in the British countryside and of the intertwined developments of papermaking and the art of painting in watercolor. In addition, the book features other watercolors by Sandby and materials relating to the processes of papermaking and to the Whatman family and its mill."--Book jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Sandby, Whatman, and watercolor: an introduction / Scott Wilcox; title: A prospect for the nation / Stephen Daniels; title: Papermaking and the Whatmans / Theresa Fairbanks Harris, Michael Fuller, and Maureen Green; title: Paul Sandby's creation of the watercolor of A View of Vinters at Boxley, Kent, with Mr. Whatman's Turkey Paper Mill / Theresa Fairbanks Harris; title: A synoptic view of papers marked "Whatman" in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century England / Theresa Fairbanks Harris, Michael Fuller, and Maureen Green; title: The evolution of Whatman papers / Michael Fuller.