Paul Mellon (1907--1999) assembled one of the world’s greatest collections of British drawings and watercolors. In his memoirs he wrote of their “beauty and

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. It

"Paul Mellon (1907-1999) assembled one of the world’s greatest collections of British drawings and watercolors.... This catalogue celebrates the centenary of

A fresh perspective on British landscape drawing in the Victorian and Modern eras. The attempts by artists of the Victorian and early Modern period to convey no

Introduction : British drawings at The Huntington / Melinda McCurdy -- Excursions of imagination : British Drawing from the seventeenth to the twentieth century