Mapping a national style: topography & landscape at the Yale Center for British art: the Yale Center's holdings of British topographical art are unrivalled outside the United Kingdom. Ranging from Elizabethan survey drawings to 18th-century watercolours and 20th-century paintings, they include iconic depictions of Britain and suggest a great deal about the nation's artistic traditions.

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Britons have long had an interest in observing the everyday world, and British visual art often celebrates the fiches of observed life. As a nation, Britain has generally delighted in narrative rather than composition, and has expected imagery to document, entertain or improve the mind. Historically it has eschewed the grand manner in favour of stories told by an observant eye, with a wealth of lively incident. This form of visual representation, which orders and maps out knowledge and projects imaginatively our desires and aspirations, is generally known as topographical ...

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