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I just checked this marvelous website/database documenting the world through watercolours before 1900. Highly recommended.
Two wonderful watercolours you can find in this website/database:
Location: Acropolis Museum, Athens
Painter: Marie Henriques
Date: 1911
Location: Acropolis Museum, Athens
Painter: Marie Henriques
Date: 1911
This is a wonderful testimony painted by Swiss artist Louis Ducros who stayed in Rome b/t 1777-1793. Here he depicts the interior of the Colosseum with a religious ceremony taking place, a cleric in the left foreground [published in 1780].
Another wonderful watercolour:
Location: Aquaduct at Cherchell, Algeria-[Roman province of Mauretania Caesariensis]
Painter: James Bruce
Date: ca. 1768
Location: Aquaduct at Cherchell, Algeria-[Roman province of Mauretania Caesariensis]
Painter: James Bruce
Date: ca. 1768
These are just some examples of watercolours, you can spend many hours searching this website/database. It's a wonderful journey into the past , a treasure trove of art and history. [1]
