ABSTRACT
697 In a capital introduction to an ‘Inventory of the British Water-Colour Paintings in the Fine Arts Collections at South Kensington,’ Mr. R. Redgrave gives us some notes in illustration of the history of this beautiful and national art of Water-Colour Painting. We may state at the outset, that through means of private liberality, aided by Government, an attempt is being made to illustrate, in a permanent collection, the commencement and growth of Water-Colour Painting in Great Britain. Some specimens of works by early British water-colour painters have been purchased to add to those contained in Mr. Sheepshanks’s original gift ; and to these, many pictures have been liberally contributed on loan, in order to make the collection gomewhat more complete on its first opening to the public.
