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Watercolor

16,215 works

Watercolor and ink design elevation of a hall lantern with green panels, scrolled pediment, hanging chains and tassels.

Design for a Hall Lantern, Elevation

James Wyatt, mid-18th-early 19th century

Watercolor design for a gilded wall girandole with a round mirror, two candle arms, swags and an urn finial.

Design for a Girandole with a Circular and Oval Glass

Sir William Chambers, 1745-1800

Watercolor design for a gilded oblong pier-glass frame with a central urn and scrolling ornament above.

Design for a Pier-glass of Oblong Form, the Cresting a Scroll and Urn

Sir William Chambers, 1743-1800

Sepia drawing of a Gothic revival lodge with crenellated towers and arched windows beside a stone wall and trees.

Design for Bishopsgate Lodge, at Windsor Castle, Berkshire

Jeffery Wyatville, ca. 1820-30

Watercolor design of a gilded neoclassical wall sconce with a round mirror, two candle arms, and laurel and drapery ornament

Design for a Sconce with a Mirror

John Yenn, late 18th-early 19th century

Pencil and watercolor sketch of shrubs and trees on a rocky outcrop under a dark cloud sky.

Shrubs and Trees in Rocky Landscape

John Ruskin, c. 1845

Watercolor interior design of a 19th-century sitting room with yellow sofas, a fireplace, columns and French doors.

Design for interior

Charles de Brocktorff, ca. 1830

Pen and brown wash study of a haloed monk reaching toward a child held by women, with robed onlookers and a seated nude figur

Study for Miracle of Saint Bernardino of Siena

Ventura Salimbeni, c. 1602

Pencil sketch of a man in a cap leaning over a workbench, planing a wooden plank, with handwritten notes in the margin.

The Planer

Louis Pierre Henriquel-Dupont, n.d.

Watercolor of a standing woman in a headscarf, white apron and red sleeves, beside a brown jug on a stone ledge.

Italian Woman

Edgar Degas, ca. 1856-57

Grisaille drawing of a woman with a flower wreath before a mirror held by a winged-helmet figure, with irises beside her.

The Mirror of Venus, or L'Art et Vie (Art and Life)

Walter Crane, ca. 1890

Watercolor of a ship's aft deck with cable machinery, winches, rigging and crew members under a cloudy sky.

Deck of Great Eastern, Aft: the Paying-out Machinery

Robert Charles Dudley, 1866

Sailors struggle with a tangled cable on a ship deck at night, lit by lanterns, with rigging and smokestack in the dark backg

A Night Scene. The Cable Entangled and Nearly Broken, July 18th, 1866

Robert Charles Dudley, 1865-66

Drawing of anchored sailing ships and a settlement by hills, seen from a steamship deck with men at the railing.

The Settlement and Church of Heart's Content, Newfoundland

Robert Charles Dudley, 1866

Night seascape of a steamship with tall masts and smoke, sailing through rough waves under a moon behind clouds.

The Albany Buoying a Bight of the Cable of 1865 on the Night of August 26th, 1866

Robert Charles Dudley, 1866

Watercolor of a ship's deck with winches, rigging, a large sail and crew working toward the bow, with open sea beside it.

The Picking-up Machinery in the Bows of the Great Eastern

Robert Charles Dudley, 1865-66

Watercolor of a two-masted ship and sailboats in a calm harbor below hills and a row of coastal houses at dusk.

Valentia in 1857-1858 at the Time of the Laying of the Former Cable

Robert Charles Dudley, 1865

Watercolor of a Newfoundland village with wooden houses, fences, pigs, chickens, and a tall telegraph pole.

First Telegraph House at Heart's Content, Newfoundland, 1866

Robert Charles Dudley, 1866

Crowd of men cheering and tossing hats outside white wooden houses, with a telegraph tower in the background.

September 8th at Heart's Content, the day of the successful termination of the work of laying, recovering, completing…

Robert Charles Dudley, 1866

Watercolor of a large steamship with tall masts and flags on choppy sea, with other vessels and stormy clouds beyond.

Telegraph Cable Fleet at Sea, 1865

Robert Charles Dudley, 1865-66

Watercolor of a steamship deck with rigging, flags, smokestack, crew at work, and the open sea beyond.

View Looking Aft from the Port Paddle-box on the Deck of the Great Eastern: Showing the Trough for the Cable, etc.

Robert Charles Dudley, 1865-66

Watercolor of ships at anchor in a moonlit bay, with a bright glow and a fire on the hills at right.

The Bay of Bull Arms, Trinity Bay, Newfoundland, Bonfires Lighted on the Hills to Notify of the Arrival of the Cable…

Robert Charles Dudley, 1865-66

Hand-colored sketch of a man in a green coat leaning over a woman in a white dress with blue trim in a room.

Design for "Hooking and Eyeing," a wood engraving published in "Punch" (recto); Sketch of two women and a man (verso)

John Leech, 1851

Watercolor elevation of a symmetrical Tudor-style cottage with gabled wings, columned veranda and lattice balcony, by Humphry

Design for a Cottage Ornée in the Tudoresque Style

Humphry Repton, late 18th-early 19th century

Watercolor design of a wall with a central hunting medallion, flanking arched panels of fruit and still life, and gilt orname

Design for Decorative Panels with Hunting Scenes Inset

J. S. Pearse, 1854

Watercolor interior of the Egyptian Hall, Mansion House, London, showing Corinthian columns, a coffered vault, and small figu

Egyptian Hall, Mansion House, London

Auguste Charles Pugin, 1795-1825

Watercolor interior of the Saloon at Brighton Pavilion with chandeliers, gold drapes and chinoiserie wall panels.

The Saloon, Brighton Pavilion

Auguste Charles Pugin, ca. 1826

Pen drawing of bound Christ at a column, flanked by two kneeling praying figures, with scrolls and an arched architectural fr

Christ at the Column

Delli brothers, ca. 1440-70

Pen and wash drawing of an urn-shaped candelabrum with female busts, scrolling candle arms and a swag garland on a plinth.

Candelabrum in the form of an Urn Clasped by Carytides and Candle Branches

Henry Holland, 1760-1806

Watercolor botanical study of a rose, heartsease, sweet pea, garden pea, and orchid on a pale sheet of paper.

A Sheet of Studies of Flowers: A Rose, a Heartsease, a Sweet Pea, a Garden Pea, and a Lax-flowered Orchid

Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues, 16th century

Watercolor drawing of a blue and orange kingfisher with a long beak perched on a gnarled branch.

A Kingfisher on a Branch

Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues, 16th century

Watercolor of a striped hot air balloon rising over a crowd, carriages, and houses at Lord's Cricket Ground, ca. 1839.

Balloon Ascending Near the Entrance to Lord's Cricket Ground, 1839

Robert Bremmel Schnebbelie, ca. 1839