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Watercolors

11,528 works

Watercolor of a snow-capped mountain across a calm lake, with trees and reeds on the right shore under a pale sky.

Mount Tacoma

William Stanley Haseltine, 1899

Watercolor of a calm lagoon with a dark rowing boat, a red-sailed boat, and distant buildings under a grey sky.

A Venetian Lagoon

William Stanley Haseltine, 1871/1874

Watercolor scientific illustration of a sand eel with close-up views of its protruded mouth and underside.

Gonorynchus fosteri (NZ) : Sand fish

Frank Edward Clarke, 1870

Grey wash drawing of jagged rock cliffs rising under a pale cloudy sky, with a vertical fold line down the sheet.

Design for a Stage Set

Eugène Cicéri, 1830-90

Watercolour of rose-lit alpine peaks above a misty blue valley, with a large tree and rocks in the foreground.

Untitled (A view of the Alps)

Nicholas Chevalier, 1884

Gray wash drawing of a cave opening with jagged rocks lit by pale blue light, with faint grid lines across the sheet.

Design for a Stage Set at the Opéra, Paris

Eugène Cicéri, 1828-90

Hand painted plate of numbered New Zealand beetles and larvae in colour, with scale bars, arranged on a cream page.

Original hand painted plate for New Zealand Beetles [Plate II]

George Hudson, 1934

Watercolor of two horses in a stable with a dog lying in straw beside a bright window.

Horses

George Morland, 1794

Hand painted entomology plate showing twelve numbered moths and caterpillars with scale bars, labelled Plate IV.

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

George Hudson, 1946

Watercolour landscape of tall trees on a sandy bank above a path, with hazy hills and misty treelines in the distance.

Untitled landscape

Watercolor of a sleeping mermaid on a sandy beach with breaking waves and a rocky headland behind her.

The sleeping mermaid

John Weguelin, 1911

Watercolour of St Paul's Cathedral's dome and towers seen over moored boats and riverside buildings under a grey sky.

St Paul's

Charles Eastlake

Watercolour of a half-timbered brick manor house with gables and chimneys reflected in water, framed by a large tree.

Old Farnham Hall, Suffolk

Frederick George Reynolds

Watercolor design of a pink stage curtain with a gold urn emblem in a laurel wreath and a banded green and yellow valance.

Design for a Stage Curtain

Eugène Cicéri, 1830-90

Watercolor street scene of Cologne with a Gothic carved building, a tower, an ornate carriage and figures in the foreground.

Cologne

Samuel Prout, 1822

Watercolour of a crumbling circular stone ruin beside a stream at dusk, with trees and birds in the sky.

Ruins by a stream

Snowy forest path with bare trees and two dark-coated figures standing in the center, drawn in gray and white tones.

Winter Scene with Two Men

Eugène Cicéri, 1830-90

Watercolour of a pale river ford with a flax plant, two distant riders, and blue mountains under a cloudy sky.

Ford on the Waiau

James Crowe Richmond, 1864

Hand-painted entomology plate IV showing numbered flies, larvae, pupae and a moth with scale bars, in watercolor.

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

George Hudson, 1886

Watercolor of a large tree beside a stream, two figures carrying sticks on a rocky slope, a dog, and distant mountains.

In the Highlands of Donegal

John Faulkner, n.d.

Red chalk portrait drawing of a young man with short hair and a lace collar, gazing forward, by Agostino Carracci.

Portrait of the Artist's Son, Antonio Carracci

Agostino Carracci, 1592/95

Possibly Notolabrus sp (NZ) : Wrasse

Frank Edward Clarke, 1872

Pen and wash drawing of a goatherd handing an infant to a woman at a doorway, with goats and a grazing flock nearby.

The Goatherd Lamon Handing the Infant Daphnis to His Wife Myrtele

Ambroise Dubois, after 1606

Watercolour of a girl in a yellow hat carrying apples in her apron, with birds flying near an apple branch and a blue vase.

Girl with apples

George Cruikshank

Brown wash drawing of a standing man in period dress leaning on a pedestal beside a classical bust labeled G.T. Raynal.

Jean-Baptiste Belley

Attributed to Anne-Louis Girodet de Roucy-Trioson, c. 1797

Watercolour of two men dancing in a panelled room with a table, jug, and a woman watching from a window.

Twelfth Night

John Massey Wright

Watercolour of a rocky river junction with blue-grey cliffs, boulders, a shallow stream and hills under a pale sky.

Junction of Thomas and Porter Rivers

James Crowe Richmond

Grey watercolour of a cliffside villa above a bay with sailboats, a small rowboat, and distant hills under a cloudy sky.

In the Bay of Naples

Jean Claude Nattes

Botanical drawing of Veronica hectorii with three green stems bearing white flowers and a detached enlarged flower.

Veronica hectorii Hook.f

John Buchanan, 1865

A Great Grey Shrike

Pieter Holsteyn II, mid-17th-late 17 century