It's A Watercolor World

Watercolor World is busy epitome the the world inwards oils. Sorry - non oils - watercolours. The site is creating a gratuitous online database of documentary watercolour paintings which were painted earlier 1900. You tin laissez passer on the axe explore this database of paintings for yourself past times the discipline matters depicted or past times the locations pictured using the Watercolour World interactive map.

The interactive map allows you lot to search for watercolour paintings of your favorite locations or for places that are virtually your electrical flow location. It is besides possible to search Watercolour World's huge collection of digitized paintings past times creative soul name, past times fine art museum collection, past times category or past times tag.

Watercolour World uses the Leaflet mapping platform, which I'm ordinarily exactly inwards favor of. It is corking fun exploring these onetime paintings to come across how places looked inwards the past. It would hold out actually corking if you lot could compare the depicted landscapes amongst the same views shown today using Google Maps Street View.

Also See

Ukiyo-e Map - an interactive map of geo-located prints past times the Japanese creative soul Hiroshige
Artmaps - an interactive map showing 23,000 plant of fine art inwards The Tate collection
Place to Paint - the interactive map for artists to percentage the locations where they pigment in addition to the artworks which they  convey created at those locations