“Before the invention of the portable camera, most accurate visual records of the world were made in watercolour. While a huge number of these images still exist, they are fragile, inaccessible, and ...

Before photography was around to detail the natural world, there were watercolor paintings. A recently launched database has digitized 80,000 (and counting) works painted during the medium’s heyday, ...

T. Hagiwara T. Hagiwara. Japan. American ship's portrait of the "S.T. Orion Planet". Watercolor and gouache on silk. Signed lower left. Framed and matted under glass. Image: 11.75 x 15.75in. Overall: ...