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Watercolors

11,526 works

Pencil drawing of a large tree in a landscape with a distant city, a cascade, and small seated figures under clouds.

Fresco in Palazzo Colonna, Rome

After Gaspard Dughet, n.d.

Painted study of a woven textile with a red dragon motif, floral borders, and labeled stages from first to finished.

Woven Textile: Technique Demonstration

Dorothee L. Bates, 1935/1942

Watercolor painting of a worn ox collar with leather straps, rivets, a buckle, and two metal rings on a cream background.

Ox Collar

Alexander Anderson, 1938

Painted study of a blue and cream woven coverlet with geometric blocks and butterfly-shaped motifs in a grid.

Coverlet

Sarkis Erganian, c. 1940

Pen and watercolour coastal landscape with a man in a top hat beside boulders, a curving bay, and dunes under a grey sky.

Refsnæs, Coastal landscape

Johan Thomas Lundbye, 1844

Painted rendering of a needlework sampler with alphabets, numerals, a floral border, and a central inscription and roses.

Sampler

Douglas Campbell, c. 1942

Three running horses in watercolor and pencil, the front bay horse fully colored, the others fading into sketch lines.

3 running horses

Christian David Gebauer, 1820-1829

Mauve-toned textile design of monkeys, an archer, birds and tropical foliage on a stippled pink ground.

Block Print

George Loughridge, c. 1936

Watercolor textile design of red flowers, brown leaves and buds on a light patterned ground with a decorative border.

Chintz

George Loughridge, c. 1936

Pen and ink study of a seated muscular man raising a sword beside a standing male figure, with red chalk underdrawing.

Saul and David

Baccio Bandinelli, n.d.

Brown wash drawing of female figures on clouds with winged putti, including two cherubs carrying objects below, on an octagon

Mary as Queen of Heaven or Apotheosis of Saint

Attributed to Antonio Balestra, n.d.

Grayscale design of a printed cotton textile with rose bouquets and scrolling foliage in a repeating pattern.

Printed Cotton

George Loughridge, c. 1936

Female Head in Profile to Right

Attributed to Carlo Cignani, n.d.

Watercolor of three dolphins swimming in a circular frame over blue-green water and a pale horizon.

Jumping dolphins

Niels Skovgaard, 1890-1891

Black chalk drawing of a bearded seated male nude with folded arms on a tan paper ground.

Seated Male Nude

Follower of Jacopo Chimenti, called Jacopo da Empoli, 1600/40

Pale drawing of a bearded standing figure in a long robe, raising one hand, set against a dark brown wash background.

Christ Blessing

Possibly Orazio de' Ferraro, n.d.

Colored anatomical drawing of a male figure with a raised arm, muscles labeled with letters and handwritten notes on blue pap

Miesvartalon anatominen lihastutkielma

Anders Ekman, 1848

Brown ink and red wash drawing of a seated woman holding a spindle, with a vase and bowl beside her.

Seated Woman with Spindle

Circle of Francesco de'Rossi, called Salviati, n.d.

Watercolor sketch of a slender pink and yellow pipefish with handwritten fin counts and a Tasmanian label on cream paper.

Syngnathidae : Pipefish

Frank Edward Clarke, 1870

Watercolor of a colonial settlement with red-roofed cottages, a flagpole, and a reed-lined path under an evening sky.

Christchurch. Canterbury Colony. N.Z.

Walter Scarlett Hatton

Watercolor of a red earthenware bowl with cream and brown scale-pattern glaze on its lower body, on a pale background.

Pa. German Bowl

Fritz Boehmer, c. 1939

Watercolor of a hazy mountain valley between steep rocky cliffs, lit by warm orange light under a cloudy evening sky.

Italian mountain landscape

Poul Simon Christiansen, 1905

Three views of a redware pottery dish with yellow wavy slip decoration, painted in reddish-brown tones on cream paper.

Pa. German Pie Plate

Mina Lowry, c. 1936

Watercolor and crayon drawing of a sleeping woman with red hair, pink body and yellow blanket against pale blue washes.

Sleeping girl

Harald Giersing, 1910-1914

Watercolor drawing of a round reddish ceramic plate with a wavy green glaze border and a faded central motif.

Plate

Pencil sketch of two sailing boats on a beach with figures carrying baskets of fish and a horse cart.

The Catch Coming In

Edward William Cooke, n.d.

Watercolor of rolling fields and a village with red roofs beneath clouds, with poppies and wildflowers in the foreground mead

Downton, Salisbury

Brown wash drawing of a thatched farm with men handling cows on a dirt road beside a large tree.

Farm with Men and Cows

Possibly Ferdinand Kobell, n.d.

Watercolour of a figure carrying a net on a low-tide beach, with a distant town of red roofs under a pale sky.

Near Queens Bower, Hants

Pencil drawing of a male lion reclining with a lioness standing behind him, with a small engraved lion scene in the lower lef

Lion and Lioness

Paul Friedrich Meyerheim, c. 1882