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Watercolor of a brick bell tower with arched windows and a green roof rising above rooftops under a pale blue sky.

Tower, San Francisco Romano, Rome

Cass Gilbert, 1890

Watercolor of a large curved arch of layered rock strata rising above hills, with dark trees in the foreground and a pale clo

Folded Strata, a Great Geological Arch, Colorado

William Henry Holmes, 1870

Watercolor of a tall Italian bell tower with red brick base, pale stone upper stories, a bell and weathervane, against a blue

Bell Tower, Italy

Cass Gilbert, 1930

Watercolor of a tall bell tower beside a cathedral with a canal and grassy field in the foreground.

The Tower, Cathedral of Torcello

Cass Gilbert, 1910

Watercolor of a stone castle with towers and ivy-covered walls behind a green lawn and a winding gravel path.

Compton Castle, Devonshire, England

Cass Gilbert, 1920

Watercolor of a woman and child in a vine-covered stone doorway, with a path through a flower garden.

The Garden in Its Glory

Childe Hassam, 1890

Blue monochrome drawing of a sea grotto with a glowing opening, a rowboat with figures, and three men on a rocky ledge.

The Blue Grotto

Lawrence W. Ladd, 1880

Watercolor of trees silhouetted against a glowing sunset, with warm reflections in water below.

Untitled - Jasper Francis Cropsey, 1880

Jasper Francis Cropsey, 1880

Muted watercolor of Dresden's baroque towers and green copper domes above rooftops, with a curved balustrade and bare trees b

The Zwinger Towers, Dresden

Cass Gilbert, 1890

Oval miniature portrait of a man with dark hair in a dark coat and white cravat, in a gilt frame.

Isaac Praul

Lewis Aubineau, 1800

Watercolor sketch of a town with church spires and trees beneath a pastel sky with peach and blue clouds.

Sketch of a Village

Charles Albert Lebourg, 1920

Watercolor of a single purple tulip on a green stem rising through misty, abstract washes of grey, blue and ochre.

Emergence

Andrey Avinoff, 1940

Colorful painting of a rich banquet with musicians, contrasted with a sore-covered beggar and dogs on the floor.

Parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus

Lawrence W. Ladd, 1880

Watercolor of a gray house with laundry, trees, chickens and a group of women and children in a sunny yard.

(Landscape)

Ann Brockman, 1940

Watercolor of a man in blue tending to an injured man on grass beside a donkey and tree, framed by a colorful patterned borde

The Good Samaritan

Lawrence W. Ladd, 1880

Oval portrait miniature of a woman with braided dark hair, white dress and red shawl, in a velvet-lined leather case.

Mrs. John Jordan, Jr.

John Henry Brown, 1840

Watercolor of a rearing horse and a draped figure in a classical relief style, in warm ochre tones.

Central Metope of the Frieze of Phidias, Parthenon

Henry Bacon, 1910

Watercolor of grain elevators and silos beside a golden wheat field with sunflowers under a cloudy blue sky.

Grain Elevator, Kansas

n.d Robert Johnson, 1900

Watercolor of a green caterpillar with pale jagged markings on a twig beside two serrated green leaves.

Jagged Leaf Edge Caterpillar, study for book Concealing Coloration in the Animal Kingdom

Louis Agassiz Fuertes

Loose watercolor of a meadow of pink Joe Pye weed flowers with a dark green tree line and cloudy sky behind.

Field of Joe Pie Weeds (Pride of the Meadow)

William Henry Holmes, 1930

Watercolor of bathers wading in surf before a row of white wheeled bathing cabins under a grey-blue sky.

Ostend

Armenian Arsène Chabanian, 1910

Watercolor of the Roman Forum ruins with classical columns, an arch, and pink and ochre buildings under a blue sky.

Forum from E

George Elbert Burr, 1900

Watercolor of a sunlit rocky hillside with blue trees and yellow shrubs under a pale sky.

Point Lobos

Ernest Haskell, 1920

Portrait miniature of a woman in a lace bonnet and dark dress, in a gold frame inside an open red velvet case.

Sarah Carter Stearns

Sarah C. Frothingham, 1840

Watercolor of a half-timbered gabled house with leaded windows on a cobbled street, with pedestrians and hazy buildings beyon

Old House in Rouen

Cass Gilbert, 1930

Painting of a flowery meadow with a figure walking a dirt path past trees under a cloudy sky.

Flowery Meadow

William Henry Holmes, 1910

Watercolor and ink night landscape with fiery swirling clouds over a dark cliff, moon, stars, blue sea and river.

The Creation

Lawrence W. Ladd, 1880

Watercolor of a woman in a cream blouse washing clothes at a river trough, with another washer in a red headscarf behind her.

A Mexican Laundry

William Henry Holmes, 1890

Watercolor of a cloudy sky over a green sea, with dark cliffs on the left and figures beside a boat on the beach.

On the California Coast

William Henry Holmes, 1930

Watercolor costume design of a grinning striped Cheshire Cat standing upright on brown paper.

Cheshire Cat (costume design for Alice-in-Wonderland, 1915)

William Penhallow Henderson