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Watercolor

16,657 works

Watercolor stage set design with painted panels, textured fabrics, hand fans, a screen with figures, and a blue and white vas

Stage Set Consisting Of Painted Panels, Fabrics, And Fans

Robert Caney, 1870/1890

Watercolor drawing of an underwater scene with pale rock forms, green washes, swaying seaweed lines and a small orange glow.

Underwater Scene

Watercolor of jagged glowing mountains under a starry blue sky, with rocky cliffs framing the foreground.

Fantastic Mountainous Landscape with a Starry Sky

Watercolor and ink set design of a Gothic cathedral interior with an altar, draped purple banners and stone columns.

"Harold Scene 3 Cathedral (The relics covered with cloth at centre)"

Watercolour illustration of a long silver great ribband fish with red fin rays and a scale bar beneath it.

Regalecus glesne (Great Ribband fish)

Frank Edward Clarke, 1895

Watercolor stage design with red drapes, columns, and an equestrian Saint George slaying a dragon at center.

Stage Set with a Statue Of Saint George Slaying the Dragon

Watercolor of a brick windmill with sails beside a grassy riverbank, trees, reeds and birds in a pale sky.

Windmill, St. Benet's Abbey

John Sell Cotman

Pen and wash drawing of a fantastical underground temple with ornate columns, arched vaults, and a seated figure holding a la

A Fantastic Underground Temple (Aladdin's Cave?)

Watercolor stage design with red curtains, armored statues, gilded lions, and chariot scenes in oval panels.

Stage Set With Paintings And Statues

Watercolor interior of an Egyptian temple with carved walls, seated statues, columns and a view to blue sky and greenery.

Interior of an Ancient Egyptian Temple

Robert Caney, c.1888

Watercolor of a seated woman dipping her foot in a pond beneath a large tree, with reeds and a white drape.

Woman bathing

Sunlit whitewashed chapel with bell tower on rocky cliffs above the blue sea, with cactus and an olive tree.

Santa Maria a Cetrella, Anacapri

William Stanley Haseltine, c. 1892

Watercolor sketch of a walled town with a red-arched gateway, a crowd of people, and sandy ground under a grey sky.

Village on the Red Sea

Hercules Brabazon Brabazon

Watercolor of a Gothic cathedral portal beside a half-timbered house, with a lone figure walking a curving street.

Cathedral Caudebec en Caux, Normandy, France

William Wildman, 1907

Watercolor drawing of a yellow-brown fish with a large eye and fanned fins, labelled Platystethus abbrevatus.

Platystethus abbrevatus

Frank Edward Clarke, 1872

Pen and watercolor drawing of a flowering plant with pink blooms, looping calligraphic scrolls, and the signature Bernard.

Calligraphic Flowers

Jean-Joseph Bernard called Bernard de Paris

Watercolour of a dwarf tutu plant with clusters of dark purple berries, green leaves and roots on pale paper.

Dwarf Tutu, Mt Egmont

Fanny Richardson

Watercolour drawing of a grey-blue rock cod in side view, with fin counts and handwritten notes on the paper.

Pseudophycis barbata (Tas) : Southern Bastard Red Cod

Frank Edward Clarke, 1870

Pen and watercolor drawing of a stout man and a thin man with a cane, captioned May your shadow never be less.

An Unkind Wish

George Cruikshank, c. 1833

Watercolor landscape of billowing clouds over trees and small figures walking a path in the foreground.

A Landscape with Figures Walking along a Path

Henri Harpignies

Brown wash drawing of three fishermen by a lake framed by trees, with a stone bridge and church spire in the distance.

View of Stourhead

Richard Hoare, 1780

Watercolor drawing of a small silvery fish with red-dotted sides, with handwritten fin counts and labels on cream paper.

Maurolicus muelleri

Frank Edward Clarke, 1870

Watercolor drawing of a Gothic church portal with a pointed arch, clustered columns and a vaulted interior beyond.

Church entrance

John Sell Cotman

Hand-colored caricature of two uniformed men playing cribbage at a green card table, with a dog beside the chair at right.

A Game of Cribbage or Boney's Last Shuffle

George Cruikshank, June 6, 1814

Watercolor of Venice's domed Santa Maria della Salute at sunset, with sailing boats and a gondola on pink-tinted lagoon water

Santa Maria della Salute, Venice, at Sunset

Edward Lear, 1865/1884

Watercolor seascape of a sailboat on choppy water with a distant ship under a pale, cloudy sky.

A Seascape with Two Sail Boats

Pen and brown ink drawing of a balustrade with two standing female figures holding garlands and two flowering urns.

Design for a Balustrade with Female Figures and Urns

Giulio Parigi, 16th-17th century

Watercolor of three travelers on a wooded path under gnarled trees, framed by a blue border with small silhouetted figures an

Travelers on a Wooded Path with a Border of Whimsical Figures and Monkeys

Henri Harpignies, 1895

Watercolor of a rocky Italian coast with cliffs, white buildings, boats on the shore, and a calm sea under a pale sky.

An Italian Coast Scene

John 'Warwick' Smith, possibly 1776/1781

Watercolor and pen drawing of an ornamental wall with a doorway, blue diamond medallions, a candelabrum, and arched vault dec

Pompeiian Wall Decoration

Giuseppe Bernardino Bison

Side-view design drawing of a black and blue horse-drawn sociable carriage with red-spoked wheels on a beige sheet.

Design for Sociable

Brewster & Co., 1850-70

Side-elevation drawing of a dark carriage with red-rimmed wheels and blue floral upholstery on a cream background.

Design for Vis-à-vis

Brewster & Co., 1850-70