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Watercolor

16,217 works

Brown ink study of a robed saint and a knight with a companion before sketched columns and architecture.

Study for Saint Francis of Assisi Giving His Cloak to an Impoverished Knight

called Il Fiamminghino Giovanni Battista della Rovere, 1591/95

Graphite drawing of crumbling Gothic ruins with a pointed arch, a tree, and a distant bridge over water.

Ruins

John Sell Cotman

Pen and ink sheet of figure studies, a chariot scene, tent and sketched buildings, attributed to Agostino Carracci.

Frieze of Putti, Sketch of Lot and His Daughters, Sketch of Buildings

Attributed to Agostino Carracci, n.d.

Brown ink and wash drawing of the Virgin ascending on clouds with angels, while robed figures below gesture toward her beside

Assumption of the Virgin

Attributed to Mauro Gandolfi, c. 1780

Pen and brown ink drawing of Saint John the Baptist preaching to seated listeners beneath trees in a wooded landscape.

Saint John the Baptist Preaching

After Annibale Carracci, n.d.

Hand painted plate of fifteen numbered moths in brown, grey, blue and orange tones, labelled Plate VII.

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

George Hudson, 1946

Brown ink and wash drawing of the Adoration of the Shepherds with the Virgin, Christ Child, kneeling figure, ox, and angels.

Adoration of the Shepherds

Attributed to Carlo Bononi, n.d.

Brown wash drawing with white highlights of muscular nude male figures gathered in a bacchanalian scene.

Bacchanalian Scene

Attributed to Eduard DuBois, n.d.

Seated Woman in Profile

Possibly after Marcantonio Franceschini, n.d.

Pen and brown wash drawing of a bearded saint in flowing robes, gazing upward with one hand raised and holding a book.

Saint Paul

Circle of Giovanni Battista Trotti called Il Malosso, 1590/1610

Watercolor botanical study of blue orchid flowers with green leaves and pale tubers, with handwritten notes at upper right.

Thelymitra pterostylis

Fanny Richardson, 1931

Red chalk drawing of a group of youths, one leaning forward pointing, others kneeling and looking upward, on aged paper.

Group of Youths

After Raffaello Sanzio, called Raphael, n.d.

Grey wash landscape of mountains above a valley with a tarn, framed by trees and two grazing cattle in the foreground.

Longbrigg Tarn

Anthony Copley Fielding

Sketch of the Holy Family with Saint John and the infant John the Baptist, over a red squared grid.

Holy Family with Saint John the Evangelist and the Infant John the Baptist

Bartolomeo Cesi, n.d.

Vestal Virgin Tuccia

Gaetano Gandolfi, n.d.

Watercolor of Canterbury Castle ruins with cattle, a wooden cart, cottages and trees under a pale sky.

Canterbury Castle, Kent

Pen and ink sketch of Venus holding a curly-haired Cupid on her lap, with drapery and a wing behind her.

Venus and Cupid

Possibly Giovanni Battista Cipriani, n.d.

Drawing of a stream flowing past pine trees and melting snow patches under a grey sky, with fields in the distance.

The thaw

Brown ink and wash drawing of a classical interior with an embracing couple, a kneeling woman, and armed men among columns.

Homer's Odyssey

Possibly after Giovanni Battista Cipriani, n.d.

Grey wash drawing of Ulysses and Nausicaa with washing women, a goddess in clouds above, and a tree with draped cloth.

Ulysses and Nausicaa

Giovanni Battista Cipriani, n.d.

Watercolor of a rocky mountain stream running through green hills under a pale cloudy sky.

Mountain stream, Kaikoura

Alfred Walsh, 1910

Sepia watercolor of Venus and Adonis beneath a tree, with a hunting dog and a spear beside them.

Venus and Adonis

Style of Conrad Martin Metz, n.d.

Pen and wash drawing of a reclining woman entwined by a serpent on a draped couch, with two onlookers at right.

Olympias, Mother of Alexander, Visited by Zeus in the Guise of a Serpent

Attributed to Andrea Boscoli, 1595/99

Brown ink and wash design of an ornate tomb canopy with scrolled cornices, figures, and a small crucifix.

Design for Tomb with Canopy

Attributed to Marco Marchetti, called Marco da Faenza, c. 1550

Brown ink and wash drawing of classical figures, a serpent, and an infant beside a reclining woman on a pedestal.

Birth of Alexander

Nicolas Poussin, 1640s

Brown ink drawing of draped women and a child beside a youth leading a horse, with hatched shading.

Story of Niobe: Niobe Receiving Gifts from Worshippers; Youth with Horse

After Polidoro Caldara, called Polidoro da Caravaggio, n.d.

Pen and wash drawing of a mounted warrior fighting on a bridge beside a round castle tower and a distant city.

Horatius at the Bridge

Giovanni Battista Cipriani, n.d.

Brown ink and wash drawing of draped figures in a procession beside a large ox.

Procession of Figures and Oxen

called dalle Lame Biagio Pupini, n.d.

Brown-toned drawing of mourners carrying a dead body toward a rocky tomb, with grieving figures in robes.

Entombment of Christ

After Polidoro Caldara, called Polidoro da Caravaggio, 1527/28

Pen and wash drawing of nude putti battling peacocks while others play trumpets and musical instruments in a frieze.

Putti with Peacocks and Musical Instruments

Workshop of Lattanzio Gambara, n.d.

Watercolor sketch of a seated couple under a parasol on a beach with two dogs, a woman in blue and a man in black.

A Couple Seated on the Beach with Two Dogs

Eugène-Louis Boudin, c. 1865

Grey wash drawing of the Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine with Virgin, Christ Child, angels and a dove among clouds.

Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine

After Paolo Caliari, called Paolo Veronese, c. 1650-1700