Produced by Louise Hope, Michael Ciesielski and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net [Transcriber’s Note: Readers who cannot use the fully illustrated version of this file may like to view some individual pictures in the “images” directory associated with the HTML file. Each comes in two sizes. This text uses utf-8 (unicode) file encoding. If the apostrophes and quotation marks in this paragraph, or the fractions in the Plate descriptions, appear as garbage, make sure your text reader’s “character set” or “file encoding” is set to Unicode (UTF-8). You may also need to change the default font. As a last resort, use the plain-ASCII version of the file instead.] [Illustration: Cover] MASTERS OF WATER-COLOUR PAINTING With Introduction by H. M. Cundall, I.S.O., F.S.A. Edited By Geoffrey Holme London: The Studio, Ltd., 44 Leicester Square, W.C.2 1922-1923 CONTENTS Page Introduction by H. M. Cundall, I.S.O., F.S.A. 1 ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOURS Plate Bonington, Richard Parkes _Near Jumièges_ xxiv Cotman, John Sell _Classical Scene_ xiii Cox, David _Boys Fishing_ xviii Cozens, John Robert _Lake Nemi_ x Dayes, Edward _Furness Abbey, Lancashire_ vii De Wint, Peter _St. Albans_ xvi Farington, R.A., Joseph _Scotch Landscape_ v Fielding, A. V. Copley _Lake Scene_ xvii Girtin, Thomas _Landscape_ xi Glover, John _View in North Wales_ xv Harding, James Duffield _Vico, Bay of Naples_ xx Hearne, Thomas _View of Gloucester_ iv Holland, James _A Shrine in Venice_ xxii Hunt, William Henry _Plucking the Fowl_ xxi Malton, Thomas, Jun. _Old Palace Yard, Westminster_ vi Prout, Samuel _Palazzo Contarini Fasan on the Grand Canal, Venice_ xix Pyne, James Baker _View in Italy_ xxiii Rooker, A.R.A., Michael (Angelo) _Village Scene_ iii Rowlandson, Thomas _Entrance to Vauxhall Gardens_ ix Sandby, R.A., Paul _Windsor Castle: View of the Round and Devil’s Towers from the Black Rock_ i