ISBN10: 3791312545, ISBN13: 9783791312545, [publisher: Munich, München, Prestel.] Hardcover First Edition 1. ed. 30x25 cm. 339 p. Cloth with red back title in very good condition. Jacket as well. Inside very good, in mint condition. 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. In this magnificent illustrated survey of the great age of British watercolours, Andrew Wilton and Anne Lyles trace the development of attitudes to landscape and to the human figure in the landscape from 1750 to 1880. they show how once the traditional pen and ink drawing and its augemnted washes of colour had been abandoned in order to paint directly in watercolours without pen outlines, the way was open for the powerful Romantic landscapes of the following decade and beyond, many of which were painted in the wild mountainous regions of Wales and Scotland. . (Flap) With 389 illustrations, 332 in colour. Sprache: englisch.
[Diedorf OT Biburg, Germany] [Publication Year: 1993]
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