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Watercolors

11,528 works

Red chalk drawing of an elderly bearded man with bare torso, hands clasped at chest, gazing upward.

Saint Jerome

After Agostino Carracci, after 1590

Pen and brown ink drawing of a bent-over man sweeping with a broom beside a railing and buildings.

Manure Collector

After Annibale Carracci, after 1585

Red chalk drawing of the Virgin and Child in glory with two kneeling monk saints and angels in clouds.

Virgin and Child in Glory Worshipped by Two Monk Saints

Circle of Ercole Procaccini the younger, n.d.

Pencil sketch of a bearded man raising a sword beside a white horse, with a figure gesturing in the foreground.

Balaam's Ass

Agostino Carracci, n.d.

Red chalk drawing of a satyr embracing a horned goat, with hatched shading on a pale paper ground.

Satyr and Goat

After Annibale Carracci, after 1600

Pen and brown ink sketch of figures, cattle and a cart in a wooded landscape.

Group of Figures by a River

Attributed to Agostino Tassi, 1620s

Pen and brown ink sketch of struggling figures, with muscular men lifting women and raised arms in a dynamic composition.

Rape of the Sabines

Michel Joseph Speeckaert, n.d.

Four Sketches: Standing Male Figure; Profile Bust of Bearded Man; Profile Head of Bearded Man; Landscape

Attributed to Agostino Carracci, n.d.

Drawing of a dusky town street with a cobbled road, stone bridge, tall cypress tree and glowing street lamps.

Dusk

Brown ink study of a robed saint and a knight with a companion before sketched columns and architecture.

Study for Saint Francis of Assisi Giving His Cloak to an Impoverished Knight

called Il Fiamminghino Giovanni Battista della Rovere, 1591/95

Graphite drawing of crumbling Gothic ruins with a pointed arch, a tree, and a distant bridge over water.

Ruins

John Sell Cotman

Pen and ink sheet of figure studies, a chariot scene, tent and sketched buildings, attributed to Agostino Carracci.

Frieze of Putti, Sketch of Lot and His Daughters, Sketch of Buildings

Attributed to Agostino Carracci, n.d.

Brown ink and wash drawing of the Virgin ascending on clouds with angels, while robed figures below gesture toward her beside

Assumption of the Virgin

Attributed to Mauro Gandolfi, c. 1780

Pen and brown ink drawing of Saint John the Baptist preaching to seated listeners beneath trees in a wooded landscape.

Saint John the Baptist Preaching

After Annibale Carracci, n.d.

Hand painted plate of fifteen numbered moths in brown, grey, blue and orange tones, labelled Plate VII.

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

George Hudson, 1946

Brown ink and wash drawing of the Adoration of the Shepherds with the Virgin, Christ Child, kneeling figure, ox, and angels.

Adoration of the Shepherds

Attributed to Carlo Bononi, n.d.

Brown wash drawing with white highlights of muscular nude male figures gathered in a bacchanalian scene.

Bacchanalian Scene

Attributed to Eduard DuBois, n.d.

Seated Woman in Profile

Possibly after Marcantonio Franceschini, n.d.

Pen and brown wash drawing of a bearded saint in flowing robes, gazing upward with one hand raised and holding a book.

Saint Paul

Circle of Giovanni Battista Trotti called Il Malosso, 1590/1610

Watercolor botanical study of blue orchid flowers with green leaves and pale tubers, with handwritten notes at upper right.

Thelymitra pterostylis

Fanny Richardson, 1931

Red chalk drawing of a group of youths, one leaning forward pointing, others kneeling and looking upward, on aged paper.

Group of Youths

After Raffaello Sanzio, called Raphael, n.d.

Grey wash landscape of mountains above a valley with a tarn, framed by trees and two grazing cattle in the foreground.

Longbrigg Tarn

Anthony Copley Fielding

Sketch of the Holy Family with Saint John and the infant John the Baptist, over a red squared grid.

Holy Family with Saint John the Evangelist and the Infant John the Baptist

Bartolomeo Cesi, n.d.

Vestal Virgin Tuccia

Gaetano Gandolfi, n.d.

Watercolor of Canterbury Castle ruins with cattle, a wooden cart, cottages and trees under a pale sky.

Canterbury Castle, Kent

Pen and ink sketch of Venus holding a curly-haired Cupid on her lap, with drapery and a wing behind her.

Venus and Cupid

Possibly Giovanni Battista Cipriani, n.d.

Drawing of a stream flowing past pine trees and melting snow patches under a grey sky, with fields in the distance.

The thaw

Brown ink and wash drawing of a classical interior with an embracing couple, a kneeling woman, and armed men among columns.

Homer's Odyssey

Possibly after Giovanni Battista Cipriani, n.d.

Grey wash drawing of Ulysses and Nausicaa with washing women, a goddess in clouds above, and a tree with draped cloth.

Ulysses and Nausicaa

Giovanni Battista Cipriani, n.d.

Watercolor of a rocky mountain stream running through green hills under a pale cloudy sky.

Mountain stream, Kaikoura

Alfred Walsh, 1910