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Watercolor

16,123 works

Watercolor design of a faceted decanter with gilt stopper, landscape panel, figure medallion and floral ornament.

Design for a Decanter

Virginia Ferrari, 19th century

Pencil and watercolour drawing of a woman leaning toward a seated man in a stone-walled room, with a figure at a fireplace be

She stoops to conquer

Robert Cruikshank, 1820

Painting of the ocean liner Aorangi with red funnels in a harbour, surrounded by sailing boats, a tug and a city waterfront.

Aorangi

Charles Dixon, 1924

Watercolor landscape of a steep eroded cliff with a distant city skyline and domed building under a cloudy sky.

View of Paris, from Meuden

Paul Huet, n.d.

Aunt Tonl

Wilhelm von Kobell, c. 1795

Hand-colored drawing of a woman at a piano, a seated man, and a girl holding a doll in a patterned interior.

Lolotte and Werther

Eunice Pinney, 1810

Watercolor and ink drawing of a brown sand flounder seen from above, with handwritten fin counts and a catch note.

Rhombosolea plebeia (NZ) : Sand flounder

Frank Edward Clarke, 1873

Watercolor of a Gothic stone gatehouse with twin towers and a ruined arched wall, with two figures in the foreground.

Entrance to Monastary of St. Augustine, Canterbury

Watercolour of native orchids with white, pink and purple star flowers and striped green hooded buds on narrow leaves.

Thelymitra pterostylis

Fanny Richardson, 1921

Watercolor of a girl in a blue bonnet reaching toward a grey heron by water, with yellow flowers and pink blossoms.

Girl feeding bird

George Cruikshank

Watercolour of a lake framed by native bush, with snow-capped mountains rising under a pale golden sky.

Mount Cook

John Gully, 1872

Watercolor of a misty lake with snowy mountains, sailboats, a jetty and cabbage trees on the shore.

Lake Wakatipu

John Gully, 1881

Watercolor view of London from Greenwich with domed buildings, river ships, and onlookers with map boards in the foreground.

View of London from Greenwich

Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1825

Mustelus antarcticus (NZ) : Smooth-hound (shark)

Frank Edward Clarke, 1875

Watercolor of crumbling stone ruins with a large arch, a staircase, overgrown shrubs and small figures under a cloudy sky.

Ruins

James Baynes, 1797

Watercolor landscape of a double rainbow arching over a wooded riverbank with dense trees and distant pale hills.

The Rainbow

John Glover, 1794

Watercolor and ink drawing of a rocky stream beneath bare trees with warm autumn tones.

Autumn stream

Frederick Porter

Watercolour of a woman in a white bonnet holding a hoe in a cabbage field, with a village in the distance.

Cabbage field

Henry Green, 1888

Watercolour still life of broken pottery shards, a painted bowl, purple flowers and green leaves on a pale background.

Broken pottery

Frances Hodgkins, 1939

Pencil and watercolor botanical study of Colobanthus acicularis with flower buds, tufted leaves and a top-view floral detail.

Colobanthus acicularis Hook.f

John Buchanan, 1865

Watercolor of a sunlit French street with market stalls, a spired tower, and figures with a donkey.

Evereux, France

William Callow, 1855

Painted birth and baptismal certificate for Anne Andres with red lettering, floral borders, houses, trees, and costumed figur

Birth and Baptismal Certificate for Anne Andres

Johannes Ernst Spangenberg, c. 1783

Symmetrical folk-art arrangement of many animals, including giraffes, elephants, lions and peacocks, in rows on a beige groun

Cutout of Animals

Unknown artist, second quarter 19th century

Sepia sketch of a harbour with hills, small boats on the water, and a figure raising an arm on the shoreline.

Porirua Harbour, showing present site of Plimmerton

Watercolour of a lake with a sailing boat, tawny hills, mountains and walkers on a ridge in the foreground.

A South Island scene

Charles Decimus Barraud, 1871

Watercolour of a sunset over a calm bay with rocky islands, a steep gorge, dead trees and small boats.

Sunset on the Kikowhakarere Gorges, at Coromandel

Alfred Sharpe, 1881

Watercolor of moored boats with red sails along a Venetian waterfront, with a bell tower and gondola under a cloudy sky.

Shipping Along the Molo in Venice

William Stanley Haseltine

Watercolor of a snow-capped mountain across a calm lake, with trees and reeds on the right shore under a pale sky.

Mount Tacoma

William Stanley Haseltine, 1899

Watercolor of a calm lagoon with a dark rowing boat, a red-sailed boat, and distant buildings under a grey sky.

A Venetian Lagoon

William Stanley Haseltine, 1871/1874

Watercolor scientific illustration of a sand eel with close-up views of its protruded mouth and underside.

Gonorynchus fosteri (NZ) : Sand fish

Frank Edward Clarke, 1870

Grey wash drawing of jagged rock cliffs rising under a pale cloudy sky, with a vertical fold line down the sheet.

Design for a Stage Set

Eugène Cicéri, 1830-90

Watercolour of rose-lit alpine peaks above a misty blue valley, with a large tree and rocks in the foreground.

Untitled (A view of the Alps)

Nicholas Chevalier, 1884