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National Gallery of Art

14,495 works

Watercolor study of an ornate green metal clock hand with a small sketch of a columned building with cupola.

Bishop Hill: Clock Hand

Ivar Julius, 1937

Watercolor drawing of a red afternoon gown with lace-trimmed bell sleeves, a button bodice, and a long train.

Afternoon Dress

Mina Lowry, 1935/1942

Etching of a rage-filled sea monster with a human-like head and coiled scaly body rising above turbulent waves.

Enrag'd Monster

John Hamilton Mortimer, 1778

Painted rendering of a tall wooden case clock with an arched hood, brass finials, gilded eagle, and silvered dial.

Clock

Lawrence Phillips, c. 1938

Etched title page with dedication to Sir Joshua Reynolds; a boy points at the text beside a bearded man in a turban.

Title Page

John Hamilton Mortimer, 1778

Painted drawing of a red writing table with turned legs, with three small measured technical views below.

Writing Table and Desk

Henry Meyers, 1935/1942

Etching of a seated woman with a wreath, foot on a goat, beside a man with a pipe and a basket in a pastoral landscape.

Pastoral

John Hamilton Mortimer, 1778

Watercolor of a brown and blue glazed stoneware jug with a looped handle and drip-glaze pattern on a pale background.

Stoneware Jug

Annie B. Johnston, c. 1938

Shaded drawing of a brown stoneware jar with two loop handles, signed Annie B. Johnston, against a cream background.

Stoneware Jar

Annie B. Johnston, c. 1937

Etching of a jealous sea monster rising from waves, grappling with a muscular man beside a reclining draped woman under cloud

Jealous Monster

John Hamilton Mortimer, 1778

Watercolor of a brown stoneware jug with a handle and a label reading G. Benton & L. Steward, Hartford, with a bird.

Jug

John Dana, 1935/1942

Painted study of a gray stoneware jug with blue cobalt floral scroll decoration and a curved handle on cream paper.

Jug

Henry Meyers, 1935/1942

Etching of a woman in drapery struggling with a scaly sea monster on a shore, a bearded man watching from the reeds.

Successful Monster

John Hamilton Mortimer, 1778

Etching of a satyr playing panpipes beside a sleeping figure, with a scaly sea monster and coiled tail in the water below.

Musical Monster

John Hamilton Mortimer, 1778

Watercolor drawing of a glazed combination bookcase and bureau with lion-head drawer pulls and a line diagram below.

Combination Book Case, Desk, and Bureau

Henry Meyers, c. 1936

Etching of allegorical figures: a blindfolded woman gestures toward a book labeled Nature while a child holds a mirror.

Comedy

John Hamilton Mortimer, 1778

Etching of a grieving woman leaning on a rock above a body lying in the surf, with a bird in the sky.

Elegy

John Hamilton Mortimer, 1778

Etching of a seated classical woman holding a bowl beside an urn and reclining figure, with billowing clouds, titled Tragedy.

Tragedy

John Hamilton Mortimer, 1778

Painted study of a brown glazed earthenware pitcher with a spout, handle, and incised zigzag band on a cream background.

Earthenware Pitcher

Mina Lowry, c. 1940

Etching of a turbaned man resting his chin on his hand, seated on a stone ledge by water beneath a leafy tree.

Reposo

John Hamilton Mortimer, 1778

Etching of a bearded man in armor and cloak seated on a bank beside a helmet, with trees overhead and a sheet in hand.

Salvator Rosa

John Hamilton Mortimer, 1778

Etching of an armored man seated on a rock pointing forward while two bearded companions look on, with trees and a spear.

Banditti Taking His Post

John Hamilton Mortimer, 1778

Painted study of a brown earthenware pitcher with a curved handle and dark leaf-like slip decoration on a pale background.

Pitcher

Henry Moran, c. 1941

A London Character

Isaac Cruikshank

A Young Man with Flowing Hair

Jakob Matthias Schmutzer, 1777

Thomas Peyton

James Sharples, 1779

Red chalk drawing of a poppy plant with large lobed leaves and a flower head at upper right, on cream paper.

Poppy in Bloom

Jean Baptiste Huet, 1760

Red chalk drawing of a poppy plant with seed pods, blossoms and lobed leaves on pale paper.

Poppies with Seed Pods

Jean Baptiste Huet, 1760

Sepia wash drawing of a flowering plant with small blossoms and long grass blades against pale paper.

Flowering Plant with Grass

Jean Baptiste Huet, 1760

Watercolor study of a blue-decorated stoneware jug beside a large blue floral motif and stamped Harrington Lyons lettering.

Jug

George Loughridge, c. 1937