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Watercolor

16,657 works

Watercolor of two bathers in the sea beneath a pink umbrella, with a reddish cliff on the distant shore.

Male and Female Bathers with Umbrella

Watercolor of a reclining river-god statue by a pool with figures, swans, trees and a garden trellis.

A Park with Figures at a Statue near Water

Salomon Gessner, 1775 (?)

Hand-colored lithograph of street dancers and onlookers in top hats beside a barrel, with a man holding eels on a city street

Dancing for Eels

James Brown, 1848

Trompe l'oeil drawing of a poker hand, poker chips, and a five dollar bill on a dark background.

Trompe l'Oeil: A Full House with Chips and a $5 Bill

Unknown artist, c. 1895

Watercolor of a vaulted stone prison courtyard with a chained man seated in the foreground beside a column.

Man Seated in Prison

Victor-Jean Nicolle, 1781

Hand-coloured engraving of a neoclassical interior wall with pier-glasses, windows, pink drapery and gilded console tables.

Interior Ornamented Wall with Windows and Pier-Glasses, nos. 267-273, plate 47 from "Designs for Various Ornaments"

Michelangelo Pergolesi, February 27, 1784

Hand-coloured print of a neoclassical interior wall with a central fireplace, green doors, gilded panels and urns.

Interior Ornamented Wall with Doors and Fireplace, nos. 344-350, plate 52 from "Designs for Various Ornaments"

Michelangelo Pergolesi, March 20, 1785

Hand-coloured plate of an ornamental interior wall with panels, griffins, a console table and two pink chairs, 1801.

Interior Ornamented Wall, nos. CCCCLXIX-CCCCLXXIX, plate 70 from "Designs for Various Ornaments"

Michelangelo Pergolesi, 1801

Ink elevation drawing of a tall obelisk grave monument with a stepped base and pyramidal tip on cream paper.

Obelisk Grave Monument, No. 901 / 920

Alexander Maxwell, 1840-80

Grey wash drawing of rocky cliffs, circular rock-cut basins in the foreground, a ruined wall and a robed figure with a staff.

The Altar of Baal

Harry Fenn, 1885

Ink and wash drawing of a half-timbered clubhouse beside a bowling green, with a flagpole, poplars and figures on the lawn.

The Athletic Club at Bowling Green

Harry Fenn, ca. 1900

Watercolor design for an arched stained glass window showing a grey urn with blue flowers and lavender ribbons.

Stained Glass Design with Flowering Vase

E. E. Q., late 19th century

Watercolor design of an ornate wrought iron hall lantern with scrolling leaves and a glass panel with a sunburst.

Wrought Iron Hall Lantern Design

J. B. B. Frost, 19th century

Watercolor of a half-timbered Tudor style building beside railway tracks, with a steam train, gate keeper, and rolling hills.

Tudor Style Rural Train Station and Railroad Crossing

John Connell Ogle, 1844-77

Watercolor of wine barrels being loaded from a plank onto a sailing barge on calm water, with a distant sailboat.

Wine Barrels Loaded onto a Sailing Barge at Vevey

Johann Jacob Ulrich, c. 1850

Brown ink drawing of a stone underpass with a horse carriage and pedestrians on a dirt road, evergreens on the hill beyond.

Central Park, Transverse Road No. 2

E. P., 1870

Watercolor of a studio corner with pink roses in a glass vase on books, a yellow patterned cloth, and a wooden easel.

A Corner of a Studio

Henri Harpignies

Drawing of a curlew with a long curved bill hanging by its blue feet from a nail against an arched tan panel.

Trompe l'Oeil: A Curlew Hanging from a Nail

Édouard Traviès, 1850s(?)

Watercolor still life of a potted fuchsia and white flowers beside toys and blue cloth on a wooden table.

A Potted Fuchsia with Children's Toys

Henri Harpignies, 1877

Watercolor of a large feathery tree before a distant mountain peak, with a flat plain and misty horizon.

Two Ancient Trees before a Mountain Peak

attributed to Jules Dupré, c. 1830

Watercolor landscape of a valley at sunset with blue cypress trees and rolling hills in pointillist dots.

A Broad Valley at Sunset

Hippolyte Petitjean, c. 1897

Watercolor and ink sketch of a rocky calanque with colorful cliffs, trees and reflections on the water by Paul Signac.

The Calanque at Saint Tropez

Paul Signac, 1906

Ink and watercolor drawing of two nude bathers, one standing in a red cap and one reclining, set among green foliage and blue

Two Bathers near the Woods

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, 1910/1911

Blue-toned watercolor of a market square with figures and awnings before a Gothic cathedral with tall spires.

A Market Square before a Cathedral

Luigi Aloys François Joseph Loir, 1870s/1880s

Watercolor landscape of a hillside village above a bay, with dancing women and seated figures among trees in the foreground.

View of Vietri with Young Country Women Dancing for Shepherds in the Foreground

Joseph Anton Koch, 1800

Hand-colored print of a skeleton wheeling a drunk man in a barrow past a woman with a cane and a thatched inn.

The Sot (The English Dance of Death, plate 12)

Thomas Rowlandson, July 1814

Woodcut of figures in a turbulent flood scene, with orange-red forms against black and cream striped areas.

Flood (Sintflut)

Christian Rohlfs, c. 1918

Watercolor of snowy Gothic monastery ruins, with pointed arches, tracery windows, pine trees and crows on the floor.

Ruins of the Oybin Monastery in Winter

Karl Heinrich Beichling, c. 1830

Watercolor of the Rialto Bridge over a Venetian canal, with gondolas, sailing boats and palazzo facades under a blue sky.

The Rialto Bridge, Venice

William James Müller, 1835

Watercolor of a hilltop village on a rocky cliff above the sea, with sailboats and travelers on a path in the foreground.

Le Château d'Eze, pres de Nice

Mathias Gabriel Lory, 1841/1843

Watercolor of a Venetian canal with a tall-masted ship, gondolas, and a domed church beside the water.

The Giudecca Canal with Shipping near the Chiesa dei Gesuati

David Law, 1880s

Young Woman in a Kerchief and Cloak at Hastings

Joshua Cristall, 1807