A lovely book of reproductions of British watercolors by 71 artists from the Yale Center for British Art, including John Sell Cotman, Alexander and John Robert Cozens, Francis and Thomas Danby, Thomas Girtin, Edward Lear, Samuel Palmer, Thomas Rowlandson, John Ruskin, Paul Sandby, Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, and J. M. W. Turner.
From the book jacket:
" The fullest and finest collection of British watercolors outside of England is at the Yale Center for British Art. Seventy-eight of the Center's most beautiful and representative watercolors, spanning the years from 1750 to 1881, are presented in this volume; most of them are published here for the first time. Each work is reproduced in a full-page color plate and discussed in its own extensive essay by Scott Wilcox, Assistant Curator of Prints and Drawings at the Center. Together these essays form a continuous narrative that serves to introduce both this collection and the history of British watercolors."