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10:00 - 17:00, Friday 20 May - Sunday 15 April
The period from the 1770s to the 1820s is considered the ‘Golden Age’ of British watercolour painting and this small exhibition contains some of the finest works on paper in the Ulster Museum collection.
During the 1700s, radical new ideas in philosophy and literature influenced European society and led to the increasingly rational and scientific view of the world, now termed the Enlightenment.
The outer gallery presents the background to the art of the Enlightenment and contains prints by Piranesi and Thomas Frye, two artists whose work is characterised by a sense of drama and artificiality. The drawings and watercolours in the inner gallery reflect the intellectual curiosity of the Enlightenment towards natural beauty and man’s proper response to it.
Pictured above is "Rock of Fennor on the River Boyne" by James George Oben (watercolour and gum on card).
Exhibition information:
This exhibition is on display in Art 4 and is free to attend.
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