Foreword                                                                                      5

Acknowledgements                                                                       8

Introduction                                                                                 11

Chapter 1 A Brief History of Sailing Ships and                             13

British Marine Watercolours

Chapter 2 Thomas Bush Hardy and his Family a Biography         35

Chapter 3 The English Coast                                                       55

Chapter 4 The Dutch Coast                                                       107

Chapter 5 The French Coast                                                     137

Chapter 6 Venice                                                                      165

Chapter 7 Hardy's Contemporaries                                            207

Abbreviations                                                                            228

Bibliography                                                                              229

Appendices

I    Extracts of Sketchbook No 8 dated 1876                            230

II  Paintings exhibited at the Royal Academy                              231

III Paintings exhibited at Royal Institute of Painters

     in Water Colours                                                                  232

IV Paintings exhibited at Suffolk Street                                       232

V  Paintings exhibited at Thomas Richardson, 1901                    236

VI Paintings owned by Sheffield Galleries and                            237

Museums Trust

Index                                                                                        241

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