Painting Wandsworth: Watercolours 1770 – 1925

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21 September 2012 – 24 February 2013

Wandsworth Museum presents ‘Painting Wandsworth’, an exhibition of more than 60 fascinating local watercolours from its extensive collection. Historic scenes from across the borough of Wandsworth are on show, from Roehampton and Putney in the west to Nine Elms in the east, Tooting in the south to Battersea in the north. Through the eyes of 19th-century painters the watercolours reveal how the borough looked a century ago and shows how it captured the imagination of artists.
Explore the transformation of the borough from a series of villages to an urbanized and industrialized suburb. View beautiful pastoral landscapes, long-demolished buildings and vanished Wandsworth Town, Battersea and Putney riverscapes. The exhibition gives a vivid picture of an area once covered in woodland, meadows, country lanes and cottages – now replaced by suburban housing, roads and railways.

Highlights include paintings of the famous River Wandle mills, an 1815 view of West Hill, where the Museum now stands, and Old Putney Bridge before it was torn down.
Painting Wandsworth is on now and will run until Sunday 24 February 2013.

£4 Adults and £3 Concessions; Children 6 and under are free

Open Tuesdays to Fridays 10a.m.–5p.m.
Saturdays & Sundays 11a.m.–5p.m
38 West Hill
London SW18 1RX.

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