Watercolour - Elements of Nature

The collection of watercolours in the Fitzwilliam Museum is one of the finest in the world.

The works on show highlight the extraordinary versatility of the medium, used from the Middle Ages onwards to paint delicate likenesses, accurately record botanical detail and to capture fleeting moments of nature.

Rarely exhibited, these superb works include miniatures by Nicholas Hilliard and Isaac Oliver, flower drawings by Pierre-Joseph Redouté, as well as a series of superb landscape watercolours by John Constable, Peter de Wint, John Sell Cotman, Samuel Palmer, J. M. Whistler, John Singer Sargent, Paul Cézanne, Camille Pissarro and Paul Nash.