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Watercolors

11,528 works

Watercolor of two sailing boats with pink sails near a rocky shore, with a distant rowing boat and grey hills.

Boats

George Morland, 1794

Watercolor of Bolsover Castle on a hill above village rooftops, with figures on a road and a flat plain beyond.

Bolsover Castle

Charles Radclyffe

Watercolor panorama of a village with a square church tower, low rooftops, fields, and distant hills under a cloudy sky.

Under the Mendips

Watercolor drawing of a striped trevally fish in side view with handwritten specimen notes below.

Latridopsis forsteri (Tas) : Copper moki

Frank Edward Clarke, 1868

Watercolor portrait of a seated woman in a patterned shawl and headscarf against blue and violet washes.

Breton Peasant

Frances Hodgkins, 1909

Watercolor landscape of a riverbank with trees, a small house with red roof, and a cloudy sky.

A squall on the Meon

Charles Holmes, 1933

Sepia watercolor of a shepherd with sheep and a donkey on a road, a stone tower, an aqueduct and mountains beyond.

Italian scene

Andrew Wilson, 1807

Kneeling woman and child in blue praying before a gilded image of the Virgin in a sunlit stone church interior.

Mother and Daughter in Prayer

Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, ca. 1811-17

Watercolor drawing of a greenbone wrasse fish in side view with pink fins and handwritten fin counts.

Unknown (Tas)

Frank Edward Clarke

Watercolor landscape of a stone arch bridge over a river, framed by trees, with a mountain rising behind.

Landscape with bridge

William Muller, 1841

Watercolor landscape of cattle grazing on a hillside above a hazy plain with distant mountains, signed John Gully 1881.

Landscape [Waimea Plains, Nelson?]

John Gully, 1881

Watercolour of pale pink and blue silica terraces stepping down to a lake, with a small boat and misty mountains beyond.

The Pink Terraces

John Hoyte, 1875

Watercolour of a stone cottage with slate roof, a woman and child outside, hens on a path, and mountains behind.

Stone cottage

Frederick Boisseree, 1870

Himantolophus appelii (NZ) - lateral view : Prickly anglerfish

Frank Edward Clarke, 1875

Portrait of Julius Olivier, the Artist's Son

Friedrich von Olivier, 1846

Watercolour of a calm lake with snow-capped mountains in mist, wooded shore and rocks in the foreground.

Diamond Lake, Wakatipu

Laurence William Wilson

Genypterus sp : Ling

Frank Edward Clarke, 1868

Watercolour of a rocky shoreline with boulders, two small figures, distant hills and sea under a pale blue sky.

Wellington Harbour from Seatoun

William Francis Barraud, 1900

Watercolor botanical study of a red catchfly with blue and red flowers, green leaves and a branching stem on pale paper.

Study of a red catchfly (Lychnis hirsuta)

Herman Saftleven, 1680

Pencil and watercolour sketch of a thatched stone farm building with trees and rolling hills behind it.

Flour mills, Glamorgan

Watercolor study of insects and a fungus cluster with moss and a horsetail stalk on a pale background.

Various Insects by a Fungus

Rochus van Veen, 1681

Watercolor of rooftops with red tiles, terracotta chimney pots, green foliage at right, and a smokestack in the distance.

Rooftops, St. Cloud

Watercolor of a coastal bay with hills, surf and a sea stack, framed by trees and tree ferns in the foreground.

Sandfly Bay, Otago

Nicholas Chevalier, 1879

Watercolour of a valley with a winding road, a horse-drawn wagon, a river, and a blue mountain under a pale sky.

Pomahaka valley, Otago

Nicholas Chevalier, 1866

Watercolor drawing of a gallery filled with paintings of Roman ruins, sculptures, and visitors viewing art beneath vaulted ar

Roma Antica

After Giovanni Paolo Panini, 1757/60

Watercolor of women on a wet beach beside a blue rowboat under a heavy grey sky, with distant figures and boats.

On the Sands

Winslow Homer, 1881

Macrorhamphosus scolopax (Tas) : Snipefish

Frank Edward Clarke, 1867

Brown wash drawing of a windmill on a river bank with two figures, docked boats, and wooden sheds beside the water.

Two Figures with Docked Boats near Windmill

Hendrick Frans de Cort, n.d.

Watercolor of two women walking a windy shore beside rough surf and a distant ship under a dark stormy sky.

Danger

Winslow Homer, 1883/1887

Watercolor of two women seated on cobblestones mending a fishing net beside a wall, with a straw hat hanging at right.

Mending the Nets

Winslow Homer, 1882