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Watercolors

11,528 works

Pencil drawing of a nude woman with raised arms, her body entwined with laurel branches and flowing hair.

Daphne

Style of Sir Edward Burne-Jones, n.d.

Pencil drawing of Saint Philip baptising a kneeling eunuch in water, with a horse, chariot wheel and angel above.

Saint Philip Baptising the Eunuch

Edward Burne-Jones, 1853/98

Pen and ink drawing of three women in hats and shawls walking past a horse-drawn carriage on a city street.

The Three Customers

Randolph Caldecott, n.d.

Watercolour of a stone arch bridge over a canal, horses towing a barge, and a brick wharf with a thatched shed.

Cheddington wharf and canal, Buckinghamshire

John Buckler, 1818

Caesioperca rasor (Tas) : Sea perch

Frank Edward Clarke, 1867

Ink and watercolor sketch of a red-coated rider blowing a horn on horseback, with a dog hiding in bushes nearby.

Hide and seek

Pen and ink drawing of a bearded man in a wide hat and ruff collar, eyes half closed, drinking from a glass.

Cavalier Drinking

Antonio Casanova y Estorach, n.d.

Watercolour of a castle on a wooded headland with sailing boats on a river channel.

Dartmouth Castle

Harriet Lister, 1778

Watercolor of a lone tall tree in grassland with eroded cliffs and hills under a cloudy sky.

Valley of the Mason, Highfield Rim. Amuri, Nelson

James Crowe Richmond, 1864

Pen and ink landscape drawing with a large tree at right, a steep rocky cliff, a village, and a bridge over a river.

Mountainous Landscape

Denijs van Alsloot, ca. 1608-11 (?)

Three small grey wash vignettes on cream paper showing a reclining figure, two swans, and a seated figure under a tree.

Study for a plate from Telemachus

Thomas Stothard, c. 1796

Watercolor of a Mediterranean village of red-roofed houses below blue mountains and green fields under a pale sky.

Village ensemble - Banyuls-sur-mer

Owen Merton, 1924

Watercolour of a large wrecked sailing ship tilted on a shore, with men wading in surf and anchors in the foreground.

Wreck of an East Indiaman

Pen and wash drawing of a rocky river landscape with a large tree and two small figures at lower left.

Landscape with the Temptation of Christ

Possibly Angeluccio, n.d.

Watercolor of a misty sea with a moored sailboat, gulls, and dark mountains of the Isle of Arran under pale clouds.

Isle of Arran, early morn

Thomas Miles Richardson, 1830-39

Pen and watercolor drawing of a riverside village with turreted houses and figures with barrels by the water.

View of a Village alongside a River

Samuel Hieronymus Grimm, 1766

Charcoal and blue chalk drawing of cows by a stream beneath trees, with a pale sky and birds above.

Landscape with Cows

John Constable, n.d.

Pen and ink drawing of the Holy Family resting in a rocky landscape, with an angel among palm trees above.

Rest on the Flight into Egypt

the Younger Michel Corneille, n.d.

Watercolor of a timber-clad country house with brick chimneys, a fence, figures, laundry and chickens on the lawn.

Country home

James Malton, 1796

Watercolour of a curved bay with surf, rocky headlands, wooden fences, small huts and figures on a sandy shore.

Charleston Harbour

William Marshall Cooper, 1873

Grey watercolor of rugged mountain peaks and a rocky valley foreground under a pale cloudy sky.

View of watershed looking towards Dusky Sound from saddle at head of Cockburn

George Sturtevant, 1896

Watercolour of a river lined with willows, a seated woman reading on the bank and a standing man beyond her.

The river

George Kilburne

Watercolour of a seated woman in a flowing dress among cushions, beside a jar and a latticed window, in warm yellow tones.

The favourite

Mrs Mary Tripe, 1918

Pen and brown ink drawing of a central fighting scene framed by warriors, putti and oval roundels on a pale sheet.

Antique Warriors and Mythological Subjects

Circle of Donato Creti, n.d.

Caricature drawing of a bearded man with an oversized head wiping tears, beside a signpost reading Route de Boheme.

Caricature of Henri Mürger

Nadar, 1849-61

Pencil and wash sketch of a thatched cottage, a woman in red and a child, trees, and a stone bridge.

Unfinished study

John Sell Cotman

Brown ink and wash drawing of Christ being whipped by two men beside a column, with onlookers on a balcony above.

Flagellation of Christ

School of Guercino, n.d.

Three grey-brown wash drawings of angular fossil plant fragments with handwritten labels naming Taeniopteris stipulata and Cl

Fossil plant specimen. Taeniopteris stipulata Hector

John Buchanan, 1864

Drawing of huntsmen and dogs retrieving ducks from a pond, with a company by a carriage and a distant town under a willow tre

Huntsmen and Company Observing Dogs Retrieving Ducks in a Pond (The Month of April)

Pieter Stevens, ca. 1610-20

Pen and watercolor drawing of a black-robed saint with a torch and cross triumphing over fallen figures beneath an angel.

An Allegory of the Triumph over Heresy, with St. Domenic to the Fore

Abraham van Diepenbeeck, 1650-60