Papermaking and the Art of Watercolor in Eighteenth-Centu...
Harris, Theresa Fairbanks (Conservator, Yale University Art Gallery) / Wilcox, Scott / Green, Maureen
At the Royal Academy exhibition of 1794, Paul Sandby (1725-1809) exhibited his newly painted" A View of Vinters at Boxley, Kent, with Mr. Whatman's Turkey Paper Mills." Sandby, one of the founding members of the Royal Academy and one of the preeminent British landscape painters of the day, included the celebrated Whatman papermaking mill at the center of this landscape composition. James Whatman I and his son James Whatman II were the most fam...