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Watercolor

16,217 works

Brown ink drawing of a seated robed man in a classical hall, with a group of figures gathered at right.

Joseph Recognized by His Brothers

Attributed to or possibly after Gerard de Lairesse, n.d.

Red chalk drawing of a shepherd carrying a swaddled infant beside seated women and a child under a tree.

Infant Oedipus Brought Home by Shepherd

Possibly Gerard de Lairesse, 1675/99

Brown ink drawing of a shepherd asleep under a tree in a wooded landscape, with a sheep and rocky banks behind.

Landscape with Shepherd Sleeping under Tree

Attributed to or a follower of Jan Andrea Lievens, n.d.

Wash drawing of Christ among elderly doctors in a colonnaded hall, with a standing boy and onlookers in robes.

Christ Among the Doctors

School of Lambert Lombard, n.d.

Pastel portrait of an elderly woman in a blue-striped shawl and fur-trimmed garment, looking upward against a grey background

An Elderly Woman in a Striped Shawl

Giuseppe Nogari, c. 1743

Brown ink and wash drawing of the Adoration of the Magi, with the Virgin and Child in a colonnaded hall and a kneeling king o

Adoration of the Magi

Lambert van Noort, 1559

Watercolour of a decorated barge with canopy and passengers on a river before a city with domes and minarets.

Benares

Nicholas Chevalier, 1870

Grey wash drawing of a bearded man's head and shoulders, turned upward, with white highlights and a draped collar.

Divine of Reformation Time

Pieter van Lint, n.d.

Ink and wash drawing of a bearded man raising a spiked wheel above a kneeling woman and a fallen figure.

Martyrdom of Saint Catherine

Attributed to Godfried Maes, n.d.

Pencil sketch of a horse and wagon crossing a wooden bridge toward a windmill and farm buildings in a flat Dutch landscape.

Dutch Landscape: Horse and Wagon Crossing Bridge Towards Windmill

Possibly Anton Mauve, n.d.

Watercolour plate of numbered moths, nymphs and a caterpillar, each with a scale bar, on a cream mount.

Original hand painted plate for Fragments of New Zealand Entomology [Plate X]

George Hudson, 1946

Brown ink and wash landscape of a river valley with a hilltop castle, cypress trees, rocky cliffs and a distant village.

Rhine Landscape

Possibly Willem van Nieuwlandt, II, n.d.

Pen and ink landscape of a wooded valley with a large conifer, a seated figure on a path, and receding hills under clouds.

Landscape with Wooded Hills, Seated Figure

Nicolaes Emmanuel Perij, 1756

Red chalk drawing of a muscular male torso with raised arm, seated on a stepped pedestal, sketched on pale paper.

Belvedere Torso

Peter Paul Rubens, n.d.

Studies of a Roman Sarcophagus

Peter Paul Rubens, 1602/03

Watercolor of a stone tower, village houses, a covered wagon on a road, and a castle ruin on a hill.

View of Weinheim on the River Neckar

Carl Philipp Fohr, 1800-1818

Sepia watercolor of large dinosaurs by a pool beneath cliffs and palm trees, with a setting sun on the horizon.

The country of the Iguanodon

John Martin, 1837

Hand painted entomology plate showing numbered beetles and larvae with scale bars, labeled Plate XIII.

Original hand painted plate for Fragments of New Zealand Entomology [Plate XIII]

George Hudson, 1946

Watercolor of a ruined Gothic abbey with pointed arches, overgrown trees, and a seated figure with a staff.

Croyland Abbey

Sailor in blue uniform peering at a framed portrait in a gallery, with a grinning caricature face and a rope barrier.

In Greenwich Hospital

Pen and watercolor drawing of a robed figure raising a young woman on a bed while an elderly man and a woman look on.

The Raising of the Daughter of Jairus

Eduard Julius Friedrich Bendemann, 1873

Watercolour of a wooden lock gate on a canal beside a brick outbuilding, with dense trees and a grassy field.

Landscape with lock gate

Woman in brown dress kissing a drowsy child in blue outfit who rubs an eye, in soft pastel tones.

Mother's Goodnight Kiss

Mary Cassatt, 1888

Pastel and watercolor of a ballerina in a blue tutu in the foreground, with dancers in white on a stage behind her.

On the Stage

Edgar Degas, 1876-77

Watercolor botanical study of a branch with clusters of white daisy-like flowers and green leaves on a grey wash.

Untitled [Tree daisy]

Fanny Richardson

Pen and watercolor drawing of two nursemaids in period dress, one holding an infant and one standing beside a small child.

Nursemaids with children

Hand painted plate with eleven numbered watercolour studies of moths, larvae, caterpillars and a pupa on cream paper.

Original hand painted plate for New Zealand Neuroptera [Plate IX]

George Hudson, 1904

Watercolor of a woman in a green and pink ball gown with white gloves, beside a blue vase on a pedestal.

Lady in Formal Dress

Salvador Barbudo Sanchez, 1886

Watercolour of wooded hills and a headland above calm water under a grey sky, by James Crowe Richmond, 1862.

West Wanganui from the South East

James Crowe Richmond, 1862

Grey wash drawing of a mountain with a tall waterfall and white cloud bands, framed by trees in the foreground.

Mt McGloin from Regina Creek, Karangaroa Valley

George Sturtevant, 1895

Watercolor of women in white caps washing laundry on a beach below pale chalk cliffs and a distant sea.

Washerwomen on the Beach at Etretat

George Henry Boughton

Pen and brown wash drawing of female figures and putti among clouds, on two joined sheets of paper.

Female Figures with Putti in Clouds

Possibly Gregorio de' Ferrari, n.d.