THE GREAT AGE OF BRITISH WATERCOLOURS 1750-1880 Andrew Wilton, Anne Lyles Art

Softbound - 340 Pages - Good used condition, light shelf wear, tight binding and bright pages. First published on the occasion of the exhibition of “The Great Age of British Watercolours, 1750-1880,’ held at the Royal Academy of Ars, London, 15 January-12 April 1993, and at the National Galery of Art, Washington D.C. 9 May - 25, July, 1993 -------- The revolution in watercolours of the later eighteenth century and its Victorian aftermath is acknowledged to be one of the greatest triumphs of British art. Its effect was to transform the modest tinted drawing of the topographer into a powerful and highly flexible means of expression for some of the Romantic era's greatest artists, among them Thomas Girtin, J.M.W. Turner and John Constable. In this magnificently 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 augmented 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. OBAYF