WATERCOLOUR - Elements of nature

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Stunning landscapes, exquisite portrait miniatures and delicate flower drawings by masters including Samuel

Palmer and Paul Cézanne - the collection of watercolours in the Fitzwilliam Museum is one of the finest in the world.Stunning landscapes, exquisite portrait miniatures and delicate flower drawings by masters including Samuel

Palmer and Paul Cézanne - the collection of watercolours in the Fitzwilliam Museum is one of the finest in the world.Rarely exhibited and in superb condition, the works on show highlight the extraordinary versatility of the medium, showing how it was used from the Middle Ages onwards to illuminate manuscripts, paint delicate likenesses, accurately record botanical detail and to capture fleeting moments of nature.Drawn exclusively from the Fitzwilliam’s outstanding collections, the exhibition will include miniatures by Nicholas Hilliard and Isaac Oliver, botanical drawings by Georg Ehret and Pierre-Joseph Redouté, as well as a series of superb landscape watercolours by John Constable, Peter de Wint, John Sell Cotman, Samuel Palmer, J. M. Whistler, John Singer Sargent, Paul Cézanne, Camille Pissarro and Paul Nash.It will be complemented by an exhibition in the Shiba Gallery of watercolours by J.M.W. Turner, many given to the Museum by his greatest champion, John Ruskin.Tue 16 June 2015 to Sun 27 September 2015

Mellon Gallery (13)Free

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WATERCOLOUR - Elements of nature The Fitzwilliam Museum Main address: The Fitzwilliam Museum Trumpington Street CB2 1RB Cambridge,, United kingdom The Fitzwilliam Museum Trumpington Street CB2 1RB Cambridge,, United kingdom Stunning landscapes, exquisite portrait miniatures and delicate flower drawings by masters including Samuel

Palmer and Paul Cézanne - the collection of watercolours in the Fitzwilliam Museum is one of the finest in the world.Stunning landscapes, exquisite portrait miniatures and delicate flower drawings by masters including Samuel

Palmer and Paul Cézanne - the collection of watercolours in the Fitzwilliam Museum is one of the finest in the world.Rarely exhibited and in superb condition, the works on show highlight the extraordinary versatility of the medium, showing how it was used from the Middle Ages onwards to illuminate manuscripts, paint delicate likenesses, accurately record botanical detail and to capture fleeting moments of nature.Drawn exclusively from the Fitzwilliam’s outstanding collections, the exhibition will include miniatures by Nicholas Hilliard and Isaac Oliver, botanical drawings by Georg Ehret and Pierre-Joseph Redouté, as well as a series of superb landscape watercolours by John Constable, Peter de Wint, John Sell Cotman, Samuel Palmer, J. M. Whistler, John Singer Sargent, Paul Cézanne, Camille Pissarro and Paul Nash.It will be complemented by an exhibition in the Shiba Gallery of watercolours by J.M.W. Turner, many given to the Museum by his greatest champion, John Ruskin.Tue 16 June 2015 to Sun 27 September 2015

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