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Watercolor of a crowded river ferry with passengers, animals, and a pole-wielding ferryman against hills and trees.

River Ferry with Many Passengers and Animals

Watercolor of a guillemot with black head and white breast swimming on rippled water, beak open, signed Chas. Collins 1742.

A Guillemot, June 1742

Charles Collins, 1742

Loose oil sketch of grey storm clouds over a flat field and a dark line of distant trees on the horizon.

Extensive Landscape with Grey Clouds

John Constable, 1821

Watercolor landscape of a castle beside a road with an ox cart and travelers, with hills and water in the distance.

View in Wales

Painting of a red-throated diver floating on water, showing its grey head, rust-red throat and white underparts.

A Red Throated Diver, June 1742

Charles Collins, 1742

Painting of a hillside road with a carriage and cottage, looking over a hazy city with a domed church under clouds.

Sir Richard Steele's Cottage, Hampstead

John Constable, 1831

Watercolor of a farmyard with a big tree, thatched shed, cottage, timber pile and cart under a cloudy sky.

The Woodyard, Great Windsor Park

Paul Sandby, 1792

Watercolor of two brown shorebirds with long dark bills standing on a sandy shore beside shallow water and grass.

Purre or Stint

Charles Collins

Loose oil sketch of an open heath with bonfire smoke, small figures, a distant house, trees, and a cloudy sky.

Hampstead Heath, with a Bonfire

John Constable, 1822

Watercolor of a garden with a weeping willow, laundry hanging on a line, figures, dogs and a brick cottage at right.

The Garden of Thomas Sandby's House at Englefield Green near Windsor

Paul Sandby, 1800

Egyptian Vulture

Charles Collins, 1736

Loose oil sketch of the Thames with a stone terrace, small boats, and a distant domed building under cloudy skies.

Somerset House Terrace from Waterloo Bridge

John Constable, 1819

Watercolor study of a gnarled oak tree with spreading branches, grey-blue foliage highlighted in ochre, above rocks.

Study of a Tree

Paul Sandby, 1780

Watercolor and pen sketch of a ruined stone temple with doorways beside a river, with palms and a pink horizon.

Amada, 9:30 am, 12 February 1867

Edward Lear, 1867

Misty night river with a small rowing boat in the foreground and dim city lights and buildings on the distant shore.

Nocturne in Blue and Silver

James McNeill Whistler, 1872

Watercolor of figures on a stone terrace watching a bright meteor streak across a cloudy night sky above Windsor.

The Meteor of August 18, 1783, as seen from the East Angle of the North Terrace, Windsor Castle

Paul Sandby, 1783

Watercolor of a whitewashed thatched cottage beside a wooded hill, with figures on a sandy shore and a gull overhead.

The Last House in Lynmouth

Helen Allingham, 1874

Painting of a snowy mountain above a bay, with a hilltop monastery at left and robed figures on a path in front.

Mount Athos and the Monastery of Stavronikétes

Edward Lear, 1857

Watercolor of two windmills beside a canal with a rider on a grey horse and a figure on a path under a pale sky.

Landscape with Windmills

Thomas Shotter Boys

Watercolor of rival families reconciling over two dead lovers on a tomb, with guards, a kneeling friar and torches in a stone

The Reconciliation of the Montagues and the Capulets Alternative titles: The Reconciliation of the Montagues and Capu…

Frederic Leighton, 1854

Watercolor of the Philae temple on an island in the Nile, with palm trees, granite boulders and hazy mountains under a pale s

Philae, Egypt

Edward Lear, 1863

Watercolor of the Pont Royal over the Seine in Paris, with figures on the quay, boats on the river, and a cloudy sky.

Le Pont Royal, Paris

Thomas Shotter Boys, 1828

Evening painting of a crowded riverbank, boats on the River Cam, a stone bridge, and a gothic college chapel under a red sky.

Procession of Boats on the River Cam below Clare College, Cambridge

Richard Banks Harraden, 1850

Painting of a seated goatherd with white goats on a hillside overlooking a distant hilltop town and mountains.

Landscape with Goatherd

Edward Lear, 1842

Painting of Gothic abbey ruins in warm evening light, with two figures on grass and a distant town under a pale sky.

St. Mary's Abbey, York

Michael Angelo Rooker, 1778

Night painting of a city fire on a river, with crowds fleeing in boats beneath a stone arch and a moon above.

The Great Fire of London

Philip James de Loutherbourg, 1797

Watercolor of a wide plain, blue lake and snowy mountains, seen from rocks where two figures sit beside spiky plants.

Butrinto, Albania

Edward Lear, 1861

Two mounted huntsmen in red coats with a pack of hounds beside a wooden gate in an autumn landscape.

George Mountford, Huntsman to the Quorn, and W. Derry, Whipper-In, at John O'Gaunt's Gorse, near Melton Mowbray

Richard Barrett Davis, 1836

Crowded 1726 market square with vendors, shoppers, produce stalls and classical buildings under a pale sky.

Covent Garden

Pieter Angillis, 1726

Painting of snow-capped Himalayan peaks over a misty valley, with trees, tree ferns and travelers on a path in the foreground

Kangchenjunga from Darjeeling

Edward Lear, 1879