At the Royal Academy annual exhibition of 1794,Paul Sandby (1731-1809) 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 famous English papermakers of the eighteenth century, and by 1760 Turkey Mill was the largest paper mill in the country.

At the Royal Academy annual exhibition of 1794,Paul Sandby (1731-1809) 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 famous English papermakers of the eighteenth century, and by 1760 Turkey Mill was the largest paper mill in the country.

This handsome and engaging book looks at how Vinters and Turkey Mill is a superb example of Sandhy's art and an important document both of the rise of industry in the British countryside and of the intertwined developments ofpapermaking and the art of painting in watercolor. In addition,the book features other watercolors by Sandby and materials relating to the processes of papermaking and to the Whatman family and its mill.

FOREWORD Amy Meyers

 SANDBYI WHATMANI AND WATERCOLOR: AN INTRODUCTION

  Scott Wilcox

A PROSPECT FOR THE NATION

 Stephen Daniels

PAPERMAKING AND THE WHATMANS

  Theresa Fairbanks Harris, Michael Fuller, and Maureen Green

Paul Sandby's Creation of the Watercolor A View of Vinters

at Boxley, Kent, with Mr. Whatman's Turkey Paper Mills

 Theresa Fairbanks Harris

A Synoptic View of Papers Marked "WHATMAN 11 in Eighteenth-

and Nineteenth-Century England

 Theresa Fairbanks Harris, Michael Fuller, and Maureen Green

The Evolution of Whatman Papers

 Michael Fuller

GLOSSARY OF PAPERMAKING TERMINOLOGY Maureen Green

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

CONTRIBUTORS

INDEX

PHOTOGRAPHY CREDITS