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Matthew Hargraves

Description: Great British Watercolors: From the Paul Mellon Collection at the Yale Center for...

Great British Watercolors: From the Paul Mellon Collection at the Yale Center for British Art

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Matthew Hargraves

PublisherYale Center for British Art

PublisherYale University Press

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The following publications are general works relating to the history of British watercolor painting in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Works on individual artists are listed in the notes to each entry.

Baskett, John, and Dudley Snelgrove. English Drawings and Watercolours, 1550–1850 in the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon. New York: Pierpont Morgan Library, 1972.

Bayard, Jane. Works of Splendor and Imagination: The Exhibition Watercolor, 1770–1870, exh. cat. New Haven: Yale Center for British Art, 1981.

Clarke, Michael. The Tempting Prospect: A Social History of English Watercolours. London: British Museum Publications, 1981.

Hardie, Martin. Water-Colour Painting in Britain. 3 vols., ed. Dudley Snelgrove, Jonathan Mayne, and Basil Taylor. Vol. 1, The Eighteenth Century. London: Batsford, 1966; vol. 2, The Romantic Period. New York: Barnes and Noble, 1967; vol. 3, The Victorian Period. London: Batsford, 1968.

Mallalieu, Huon. Understanding Watercolours. Woodbridge: Antique Collectors’ Club, 1985.

Roget, John Lewis. A History of the Old Water-Colour Society. 1891; Woodbridge: Antique Collectors’ Club, 1972.

Smith, Greg. The Emergence of the Professional Watercolourist: Contentions and Alliances in the Artistic Domain, 1760–1824. Aldershot, England: Ashgate Publishing, 2002.

Wilcox, Scott. British Watercolors: Drawings of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries from the Yale Center for British Art, exh. cat. New Haven: Yale Center for British Art, 1985.

Williams, Iolo. Early English Watercolours and Some Cognate Drawings by Artists Born Not Later than 1785. London: The Connoisseur, 1952; reprint Bath: Kingsmead, 1970.

Wilton, Andrew. British Watercolours, 1750 to 1850. Oxford: Phaidon, 1977.

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BOOKGreat British Watercolors: From the Paul Mellon Collection at the Yale Center for British Art

Matthew Hargraves

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00227

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Paul Mellon (1907–1999) assembled one of the world’s greatest collections of British drawings and watercolors. In his memoirs he wrote of their “beauty and freshness . . . their immediacy and sureness of technique, their comprehensiveness of subject matter, their vital qualities, their Englishness.” This catalogue celebrates the centenary of Mellon's birth and features eighty-eight outstanding watercolors from the fifty thousand works of art on paper with which he endowed the Yale Center for British Art. The selection spans the emergence of watercolor painting in the mid-18th century to its apogee in the mid-19th. These works highlight the diversity of British watercolors, showcasing both landscape and figurative works by some of the principal artists working in the medium, including Thomas Gainsborough, Thomas Rowlandson, William Blake, and J. M. W. Turner.

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Matthew Hargraves

PublisherYale Center for British Art

Yale University Press

Print publication date May 2007 (out of print)

Print ISBN 9780300116588

EISBN 9780300259506

Illustrations 103

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