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Watercolor

16,657 works

Seated woman in a laurel wreath and patterned red robe holding a staff, drawn in watercolor and pencil beside a column.

Female Deity

Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze, c. 1850s

A Neopolitan Beggar

Marietta Minnigerode Andrews, c. 1892

Watercolor sketch of a bouquet of red poppies, pink mallows and yellow daisies with a small American flag in the corner.

Terme di Caracalla, Roma

Marietta Minnigerode Andrews, 1892

Watercolor of sea cliffs with breaking waves and a small castle on a cliff edge under a hazy sky.

Baldart Castle, Kilkee, County Clare, Ireland

William Trost Richards, 1892

Watercolor of jagged dark rocks with white surf breaking around them under a grey cloudy sky over the sea.

Seascape with Rocks

William Trost Richards, c. 1890s

Seascape drawing of grey-green waves breaking over dark rocks at lower left, with gulls flying under an overcast sky.

Rocks and Breaking Waves

William Trost Richards, c. 1870s

Pen and wash design of Christ, the Virgin and saints among clouds and angels above souls behind a grate.

Design for a Wall Panel or Ceiling with The Virgin and Saints Interceding before Christ for the Souls of the Lost

Johann Baptist Enderle, 1771 or before

Watercolor drawing of two lions resting in a sandy clearing beside rocks and pale tree trunks.

Sleeping Lions

Antoine-Louis Barye, possibly 1830s

Watercolor of a domed baroque church seen across a park, with strollers in top hats and tree-lined paths in the foreground.

View of St. Charles Church and the Polytechnic Institute in Vienna

Rudolf von Alt, 1831

Watercolor of a horse-drawn wagon crossing a river on a ferry, with green hills and a mountain behind.

Crossing the James River

Unknown artist, 1878

Watercolor of a stone arch bridge over a stream beside a red clay road, with bare trees and a hillside in autumn colors.

In the Red Clay Region

Unknown artist, 19th century

Watercolor of a mission church with bell tower and domes, two robed figures on a dirt road, and blue mountains beyond.

Church of Santa Barbara

Unknown artist, late 19th century

Ink and watercolor drawing of a stylized house facade with star rosettes, columns, lattice windows and a central door.

Fraktur House

Unknown artist, early 19th century

Watercolor sketch of a flat landscape with trees, a green meadow, a small figure, and a distant skyline under gray sky.

Marsh in Zeeland

James McNeill Whistler, c. 1900

Watercolor of a shaded Moorish-style arcade with donkeys and resting robed figures beneath a carved lattice balcony.

A Street in Tangiers

Mariano Fortuny Marsal, 1860 or 1862

Watercolor of a marshy plain at sunset with glowing reflections in water and silhouetted trees on the horizon.

Vicinity of Morestal

François-Auguste Ravier, c. 1890

Watercolor landscape of a flat plain at sunset with leaning bare trees on the left and distant hills under an orange sky.

Environs de Cremieu

François-Auguste Ravier, c. 1890

Watercolor of a brown and white cow grazing in a green meadow with trees, a fence, and a cloudy sky.

Landscape with a Cow

Jan Hendrik Weissenbruch, late 19th century

Watercolor of a gondola on a Venetian canal passing an arched bridge and old buildings, with soft reflections on the water.

Ponte Panada, Fondamenta Nuove, Venice

John Singer Sargent, c. 1880

Watercolor of two deer leaping across a river through a dense autumn-toned forest with a sandy bank.

Landscape with Deer, North Carolina

Joshua Shaw, c. 1820

Pencil and watercolor sketch of cypress trees, a hillside building, and travelers with pack animals on a dirt road.

Granada

Walter Shirlaw, 1904-1909

Watercolor of ruined brick buildings and a standing figure in a town street, with distant trees and boat masts behind.

Ruins of a Tavern, Petersburg, Virginia

Jr William Skinner Simpson, c. 1845

Watercolor study of two men flanking a scrolled cartouche with a ship, a dog, and a ribbon reading Liberty.

Study for "The Great Seal of the State of Delaware"

Thomas Sully, c. 1847

Architectural elevation drawing of the Belmead mansion facades in Gothic Revival style, with pointed arches, towers, and chim

Belmead, Plantation Mansion for Philip St. George Cocke, Powhatan Co., Virginia (partial elevations of entrance facad…

Alexander Jackson Davis, 1846

Architectural elevation and floor plan of a Gothic Revival house with towers, pointed windows, and labeled rooms, 1845.

Belmead, for Philip St. George Cocke, Powhatan Co., Virginia (elevation and plan)

Alexander Jackson Davis, 1845

Drawing of the Belmead plantation house with a Gothic tower and trees, above a labeled ground-floor plan.

Belmead, James River, Virginia (vignette of riverside elevation and plan)

Alexander Jackson Davis, ca. 1850

Pencil and watercolor architectural drawing of Belmead's south entrance facade with a west-east section below.

"Belmead", James River, Virginia: Entrance façade and west-east section (recto); North-south section and upper floorp…

Alexander Jackson Davis, 1845

Pen and ink drawing of Belmead, a Gothic Revival mansion with a central tower, above a floor plan with a carriage road.

"Belmead", James River, Virginia, Residence of Philip St. George Cocke (vignette of riverside elevation and plan)

Alexander Jackson Davis, 1845

Watercolor of Half Dome and Royal Arches in Yosemite with pale granite cliffs, shadowed valley and stormy sky.

Half Dome and Royal Arches, Yosemite, from Glacier Point

Samuel Colman, c. 1870

Watercolor architectural drawing of a columned university facade with tower and globe figure, above a symmetrical floor plan.

Design for a University (entrance façade and plan)

Alexander Jackson Davis, n.d.

Architectural section drawing of a two-storey library with a domed roof, columns, staircases and doorways, in pencil and ink.

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Student Libraries (two sections)

Alexander Jackson Davis, 1850-58

Pencil drawing of University of North Carolina buildings in perspective above a plan of the Chapel Hill town grounds.

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (distant perspective and plan of grounds)

Alexander Jackson Davis, 1850-58