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Watercolors

11,528 works

Watercolour of a garden with vines, bare trees, marble busts on pedestals, and a blue distant hillside and sea under an eveni

Garden with ruins

Walter Crane, 1890

Grey wash drawing of a glacier descending a valley between dark mountains, with a tiny figure standing on the ice.

Fox Glacier, looking up

George Sturtevant, 1896

Watercolor of a coastal road with palm trees, a blue house, hazy mountains, a bay with a sailboat, and pack animals.

Rio de Janeiro

Charles Decimus Barraud, 1878

Acanthopagrus butcheri (Tas) : Black bream

Frank Edward Clarke, 1868

Pen and brown ink drawing of a bearded man and other figures in classical dress before draped curtains and a chariot.

Part of The Truimph and Exploits of Furius Camillus

Francesco de'Rossi, called Salviati, after, n.d.

Pen and watercolor drawing of an elderly monocled man examining a box beside a seated woman, with a servant and urn.

The Connoisseur

Thomas Rowlandson, 1780-1800

Grey monochrome painting of a river flowing up a steep mountain valley past rocks and forested slopes under a cloudy sky.

Looking up the Karangaroa River from below junction with the Twain

George Sturtevant, 1895

Watercolor drawing of a woman in a pink gown gesturing toward a horned beast holding a basket of jewelry beneath a tree.

Beauty and the Beast

Thomas Rowlandson, 18th-19th century

Watercolor of three children playing with a wagon beside a stone wall, with village cottages behind them.

Children playing

Kate Greenaway, 1879

Watercolor of a small sailboat with crew battling rough grey waves, a three-masted ship and seabirds in the misty distance.

Marine

Copy

Eugène Delacroix, n.d.

Graphite sketch of a seated nude youth embracing a bearded faun with goat legs on a pedestal.

Study of a Nude Figure and a Faun

Attributed to Pierre Andrieu, n.d.

Graphite sketch of a seated nude man between a standing armored woman and a striding woman on yellowed paper.

Hercules Between Virtue and Vice

Eugène Delacroix, 1849-52

Watercolor of a domed mosque with minaret beside a lake, framed by cypress trees and pink flowering shrubs.

Lake scene

Hercules Brabazon Brabazon, 1844

Letter by Edouard Manet with a watercolor of two apples casting soft shadows, handwritten in French ink.

A Letter to Eugène Maus, Decorated with Two Apples

Édouard Manet, August 2, 1880

Watercolor of the Upukerora River flowing past forest and fallen logs toward distant snowy mountains under a pale sky.

Upukerora River

Nicholas Chevalier, 1866

Brown wash drawing of a seated man gesturing to a standing woman by a stone well, with a city wall behind them.

Christ and the Woman of Samaria

Attributed to Jacob de Wit, n.d.

Pen and watercolour sketch of a curving cobbled street with pedestrians, a dog, a cyclist and buildings.

Street scene with figures

Raymond McIntyre, 1917

Grey and brown drawing of a lone armored rider on horseback approaching a distant castle through a dark forest path.

Sir Lancelot Approaching the Castle of Astolat

Gustave Doré, n.d.

Watercolor of a girl in a red dress resting against a black bear beside a sleeping boy, with a spinning wheel and mountains.

Snow White and Rose Red

Richard Doyle, n.d.

Watercolor architectural drawing of a Gothic-style front door with glazed tracery panels beneath a pointed stone arch.

Front Door for Whitby, William P. Chapman House, Rye, New York

Alexander Jackson Davis, ca. 1853

Pencil and wash drawing of Gothic window tracery with a central rose design, lancet arches and quatrefoil ornament.

Design for window tracery for Chapman - full size

Alexander Jackson Davis, 1853-55

Pen and ink drawing of two women in long gowns and two men in evening dress in a patterned interior with a curtain.

Aggravating Flippancy

George Louis Pamella Busson Dumaurier, 1894

Pen and ink cartoon of a woman playing piano while a man leans over the instrument in a wallpapered room.

Groves of Blarney

George Louis Pamella Busson Dumaurier, 1893

Pen and ink drawing of a seated bearded man and a standing figure in a wide hat reading a paper at a table.

Priest and Soldier

Attributed to George Louis Pamella Busson Dumaurier, n.d.

Watercolor drawing of a red striped fish with fanned fins, labeled Hypoplectrodes semicinctum, Jackson's Bay, 1875.

Hypoplectrodes semicinctum

Frank Edward Clarke, 1875

Costume design of a woman in a yellow gown with red hearts, blue sleeves, white veil, and trailing cloak, arm outstretched.

Costume design

Watercolor elevation of a spiral staircase lighthouse with smoking fire at the top, flanked by walls and distant ships.

Design for a Lighthouse (Margate?)

Debenne, ca. 1815

Watercolour of a calm lake with a small sailboat, rocky shore, forested cliffs and distant snowy mountains under pale clouds.

Te Anau Lake, N.Z.

Nicholas Chevalier, 1866

Watercolor of a walled Russian-style fortress town on a river bank, with domed churches and riders on a road in front.

Russian scene

W Markham, 1800