A concise history of watercolours
1971, First Edition. London : Thames & Hudson. Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. Item #241679
ISBN: 0500181152
Series; World of art library. Physical description; 216 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm. Notes; Bibliography: p. 198. Summary; This work follows the story of watercolour from its origins in 16th-century Italy and Germany through developments in Holland, France and Switzerland in the 18th century and on to the special contribution made by the British School in the work of J.R. Cozens, Girtin, Cotman and Turner. It concludes with the effects of Romanticism and Impressionism and a discussion of watercolour in the 20th century. Subjects; Watercolor painting — History. Watercolour painting. — History. Watercolour paintings, to 1970. paintings — watercolour — to 1970. Watercolour painting. paintings. Water colour painting. Painting: watercolours. Photography / General. Art / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945). Genres; Bibliography. Illustrated.
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