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Watercolor

15,713 works

Watercolor illustration of a woman and child beneath a tree, with a winged figure and a poem about a fly above.

Songs of Experience: The Fly

William Blake, [1794] printed ca. 1825

Hand-colored page by William Blake showing a reclining woman and a winged angel beneath a tree, with the poem The Angel below

Songs of Experience: The Angel

William Blake, [1794] printed ca. 1825

Hand-colored page of Blake's poems My Pretty Rose Tree, Ah! Sun-Flower and The Lilly, with a watercolor vignette of two figur

Songs of Experience: My Pretty Rose Tree, Ah! Sun-Flower, The Lilly

William Blake, [1794] printed ca. 1825

Hand-colored page with William Blake's poem The Tyger, showing a striped tiger beside a tree under a watercolor sky.

Songs of Experience: The Tyger

William Blake, [1794] printed ca. 1825

Hand-colored page with three robed figures by a barred gate in a garden, above the handwritten poem The Garden of Love.

Songs of Experience: The Garden of Love

William Blake, [1794] printed ca. 1825

Hand-colored page with a embracing seated couple under radiant light, verse titled The Little Vagabond, and figures by a fire

Songs of Experience: The Little Vagabond

William Blake, [1794] printed ca. 1825

Hand-colored page with an old man in blue bending toward a child beside a brick wall, above the poem "London".

Songs of Experience: London

William Blake, [1794] printed ca. 1825

Illuminated page with hand-colored poem The Human Abstract above a bearded man in blue clutching his head beside a tree.

Songs of Experience: The Human Abstract

William Blake, [1794] printed ca. 1825

Hand-colored page showing a mother in pink reaching for a naked infant on a bed beneath the poem Infant Sorrow.

Songs of Experience: Infant Sorrow

William Blake, [1794] printed ca. 1825

Hand-colored page from Blake's Songs of Experience with the poem A Poison Tree, a tree, and a reclining figure below.

Songs of Experience: A Poison Tree

William Blake, [1794] printed ca. 1825

Hand-colored page with the poem A Little Boy Lost, kneeling figures, flames and a thorny green vine beside the text.

Songs of Experience: A Little Boy Lost

William Blake, [1794] printed ca. 1825

Hand-colored illuminated page of Blake's poem A Little Girl Lost, with red script and a tree with vines on the right.

Songs of Experience: A Little Girl Lost

William Blake, [1794] printed ca. 1825

Hand-colored illuminated page with poem To Tirzah above three robed figures tending a reclining nude beside green hills.

Songs of Experience: To Tirzah

William Blake, [1794] printed ca. 1825

Hand-colored page of Blake's poem The School Boy, framed by vines with small children at the base and a climbing figure.

Songs of Experience: The School Boy

William Blake, [1789] printed ca. 1825

Illuminated page with hand-lettered verse and watercolor scene of a bearded bard playing a harp before a group of robed figur

Songs of Experience: The Voice of the Ancient Bard

William Blake, [1789] printed ca. 1825

Ink and brown wash drawing of a spreading tree with drooping branches on a grassy mound.

Study of a Tree

Marten van Valckenborch, mid-16th-early 17th century

Pen and brown ink drawing of a church, round building, ruined arches and trees in a landscape.

View of Church and Ruins

after Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi, n.d.

Pen and ink drawing of a helmeted armored figure on a cloud above a bow-wielding figure, women, children, and scattered arrow

Mars Sending Gorgon to Slay the Arts

Possibly after Pietro Testa, n.d.

Grey wash drawing of bare trees framing a stone arched bridge and a house with a steep roof beside a path.

A House near a Bridge

Anthonie Waterloo, 17th century

Watercolor of flat dunes with a thatched cottage, windmills and a church tower under a cloudy sky.

View of Haarlem from the Dunes

Jan Hendrik Weissenbruch, mid-19th-early 20th century

Pen and ink landscape of a river with a large tree, a hilltop town, boats, and two stooping figures in the foreground.

Landscape with Figures Binding Wheat in Foreground

Attributed to Ercole Bazicaluva, n.d.

Seated Academic Male Nude in Profile to Left

Attributed to Andrea Camassei, 17th century

Pen and watercolor drawing of a thatched farm building with a chimney, wheelbarrow, wagon wheel, and leaning poles.

A Farm Building (recto); Head of a Woman and Slight Sketch of Woman Holding a Child (verso)

Abraham Bloemaert, late 16th-mid-17th century

Pen drawing of a woman with a fan watching a moth, and a seated man reading in a wing chair in a paneled interior.

Now Crossed a Mirror's Face

Edwin Austin Abbey, c. 1889

Red chalk drawing of three nude women standing in a close group, one reaching forward over a curved form.

Three Nude Women

after Raffaello Sanzio, called Raphael, and his workshop, n.d.

Brown ink and wash drawing of Perseus in armor holding up Medusa's head while warriors with shields react beside him.

Perseus with the Head of Medusa, Turning Phineus and his Followers to Stone

After Polidoro Caldara, called Polidoro da Caravaggio, 1567

Pencil sketch of a man in eighteenth-century dress seated at a table, resting his head on his hand while reading a book.

Man in Eighteenth-Century Dress, Seated at Table and Reading

Charles Bargue, n.d.

Armed Arab Leaning Against a Wall

Charles Bargue, n.d.

Pencil sketch of a seated man in a turban and loose robes, looking upward beside flatbreads on the floor.

Seated Arab

Charles Bargue, c. 1850

Pen and ink drawing of a seated man in a tricorn hat in a tavern, with two men talking at a table by leaded windows.

The Eavesdropper

Frederick Barnard, c. 1886

Pen and brown wash drawing of two gentlemen helping a seated drunk man while onlookers watch in an interior.

Two Gentlemen Helping a Drunk

Frederick Barnard, 1880/96

Pen drawing of figures in an arched interior beside an ornate casket, with a bearded man holding a staff and hills beyond.

The Litany of Mary Magdalen

Aubrey Beardsley, 1891