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Watercolors

11,528 works

Watercolor sketch of an armored knight on horseback above fallen figures, with a nude woman reaching toward him.

Massacre de Nesle (1472)

Édouard Alexandre Odier, 19th century

Watercolour of a riverside township below eroded cliffs, with a timber truss bridge in the foreground and figures on the trac

Old Greenstone township and Duke's Terrace

William Marshall Cooper, 1870

Hand painted entomology plate showing green and yellow moths, caterpillars, a pupa and a black moth with white spots.

Original hand painted plate for the Manual of New Zealand Entomology [Plate IX]

George Hudson, 1886

Watercolor of a thatched barn in a farmyard with a horse, two pigs, a wicker basket and a large tree.

Farmyard at Compton

Hand painted entomology plate labelled Plate XV showing fourteen numbered cicada specimens with translucent wings in green, o

Original hand painted plate for Fragments of New Zealand Entomology [Plate XV]

George Hudson, 1946

Grey wash watercolor of a river gorge with snowy mountains, rocky cliffs and trees, with a bird flying above.

The lower gorge, Copland River

George Sturtevant, 1893

Watercolour of a winding river valley with cliffs, native trees and cabbage trees under a cloudy sky.

Upper Rangitikei

Nicholas Chevalier, 1868

Red chalk study of two arms, one hand gripping a sword hilt and the other hand open above it.

Hands of Horatius from The Oath of the Horatii

Jean Baptiste Debret, 1785/90

Watercolour of autumn trees with golden leaves reflected in a river, with a brick building at right.

Autumn at Braunston, North Devon

Pen and brown ink drawing of a nude woman beside a seated man, with a curtain and winged figures in the background.

An Erotic Fantasy

Henry Fuseli, 1790/92

Portrait of a young man in a white wig and blue embroidered coat with lace jabot, turned toward the viewer.

James Milliken Jr.

Jean-Étienne Liotard, c. 1761

Watercolor landscape of a misty lake, distant castle ruin, mountains, and small figures on a path beneath a crescent moon.

Castle, North Wales

Henry Maplestone, 1855

Watercolour of a sailboat and rowing boat on choppy sea before pink-lit mountains under a hazy sky.

New Zealand coastal scene

John Gully, 1886

Watercolour of a bay with a small settlement, anchored ships, and a man with a telescope on a hill.

Kororarika, Bay of Islands, New Zealand

Charles Johnson Pharazyn, 1843

Watercolour of a river through a wooded valley with autumn trees, rocks and a small footbridge under a pale blue sky.

Mangaroa River, Upper Hutt Valley

Nicholas Chevalier, 1868

Watercolour panorama of a Wellington town with a church spire, harbour ships, green hills and white clouds.

Town and part of Wellington

Walter Scarlett Hatton

Diodon, Egg Island Bay

Frank Edward Clarke, 1870

Watercolor of a Japanese-style palace garden with a waterfall, pavilion, pond, pine tree and small groups of figures.

The Mikado's Palace Gardens, Yedo

Nicholas Chevalier, 1869

Grey wash drawing of Ripon Minster towers above village houses, with a large tree at left and small figures in the foreground

Ripon Minster

Ink and wash drawing of a nude helmeted hero with a sword beside kneeling figures and ghostly shades in a cave.

Odysseus, at the Doors of Hades, Meets the Shades of Tiresias and Anticlea

Johann Heinrich Lips, 1785

Ink and grey wash drawing of two nude men carrying a reclining body on a bier before draped cloth.

A Hero Born on a Bier, from The Master of Giants Portfolio

Prince Hoare, 1779

Grey wash drawing of four robed biblical figures, including a child holding an elderly bearded man's hand, beside a woman in

Hannah Presenting Samuel to Eli

John Flaxman, c. 1783

Pen and brown ink drawing of a standing man gesturing to two seated men beside tall stone pillars.

Joseph Interpreting the Prisoners' Dreams

Govert Flinck, c. 1638

White chalk drawing on gray paper of a winged sphinx beside a nude figure with raised arms under a crescent moon.

The Riddle of the Sphinx

Walter Crane, 1886

Hand painted plate of thirteen numbered cicadas in brown, green and orange tones with transparent wings, labeled Plate XVII.

Original hand painted plate for Fragments of New Zealand Entomology [Plate XVII]

George Hudson, 1946

Hand painted entomology plate showing adult crane flies, larvae and pupae with numbered figures and scale bars.

Original hand painted plate for the Manual of New Zealand Entomology [Plate V]

George Hudson, 1886

Pencil and watercolor botanical drawing of yellow flower clusters on a stem with a detailed single flower head beside it.

Senecio cassinioides Hook.f. (now known as Brachyglottis cassinioides (Hook.f.) B.Nord.)

John Buchanan, 1865

Watercolor drawing of a rattail fish with a tapering body and fan-shaped fins, labelled Macrurus australis, dated 1872.

Coelorinchus sp (NZ) : Rattail

Frank Edward Clarke, 1872

Watercolour of a verandahed timber residence among trees, backed by warm hazy mountains under a pale sky.

The Ministerial Residence

Charles Decimus Barraud, 1862

Painting of the steamship Rangitira with dark sails under a blue sky, sailing through choppy sea with a red ensign flag.

N.Z.S.S.C. Rangitira

William Forster