This visually impressive and comprehensive introduction to the art of British watercolour painting presents one hundred of the finest examples from the National Collection housed at the Victoria and Albert Museum. Including many of the greatest watercolours ever painted, this book features the work of such famous artists as Constable, Cotman, Cozens, De Wint, Gainsborough, Girtin and Palmer, as well as masterpieces by such less well-known painters as Henry Bowler, George Price Boyce, Thomas Miles Richardson and Frederick Cayley Robinson. The story continues into the twentieth century with paintings by David Bomberg, David Hockney, Eduardo Paolozzi, Bridget Riley and Graham Sutherland.