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Watercolor

16,657 works

Hand-colored comic print of a hummingbird with a bearded man's head among willow branches, titled Humming Bird.

Humming Bird (Thomas B. Florence), from "The Comic Natural History of the Human Race"

Henry Louis Stephens, 1851

Hand-colored lithograph of a man's head on a woodpecker's body perched on a branch, with the caption WOODPECKER below.

Woodpecker (William B. Gihon), from "The Comic Natural History of the Human Race"

Henry Louis Stephens, 1851

Hand-colored lithograph of two birds with human faces, one in a plaid shawl and fur coat, among grass and a branch.

Butcher Birds, from "The Comic Natural History of the Human Race"

Henry Louis Stephens, 1851

Hand-colored lithograph of a hairy hybrid creature with a grotesque female face above a man in an orange coat on a cliff.

Catamaran and Speel's Owl (Charlotte Chushman and Joseph A. Speel), from "The Comic Natural History of the Human Race"

Henry Louis Stephens, 1851

Hand-colored print of a winged vampire creature with bat ears, a wrinkled face, and a pale human face on its chest.

Vampyr, from "The Comic Natural History of the Human Race"

Henry Louis Stephens, 1851

Hand-colored caricature of a giraffe with a man's head in a top hat and red shirt, standing on grass beside a tree.

Giraffe (John E. Owens as Jakey), from "The Comic Natural History of the Human Race"

Henry Louis Stephens, 1851

Colored lithograph of a shark with a man's head and a gudgeon fish wearing a top hat, set against rocks and sea.

Gudgeon and Shark, from "The Comic Natural History of the Human Race"

Henry Louis Stephens, 1851

Hand-colored print of an orange goldfish with a man's head wearing spectacles, with a ship on water behind.

Gold Fish (Francis M. Drexel), from "The Comic Natural History of the Human Race"

Henry Louis Stephens, 1851

Hand-colored print of a mackerel with a man's head in a top hat smoking a pipe, lying on a grassy riverbank.

Mac-Arel, from "The Comic Natural History of the Human Race"

Henry Louis Stephens, 1851

Hand-colored print of a nighthawk with a human face in a bonnet, with a yellow crescent moon at upper left.

Night Hawk, from "The Comic Natural History of the Human Race"

Henry Louis Stephens, 1851

Hand-colored print of a bird with a human face and red headband perched on a branch with a noose, captioned Gallows Bird.

Gallows Bird, from "The Comic Natural History of the Human Race"

Henry Louis Stephens, 1851

Hand-coloured caricature of a man with bird wings and feathered tail perched on a branch labelled Alms House.

Alms House Bird, from "The Comic Natural History of the Human Race"

Henry Louis Stephens, 1851

Hand-colored print of a blue bird with a woman's face in a black veil on a branch, and another face in a nest among reeds.

Widow Bird, from "The Comic Natural History of the Human Race"

Henry Louis Stephens, 1851

Watercolor of St. Mark's Square in Venice with a brick campanile, ornate loggetta, red flag and small figures.

St. Mark's Square, Venice, with Loggetta

William Wyld, ca. 1840

Watercolor sketch of the Bay of Naples framed by an arch and trees, with sailboats, a town, and Mount Vesuvius.

View of the Bay of Naples with Mount Vesuvius

Franz Ludwig Catel, ca. 1820-1822

Watercolor of white convolvulus, wild rose, bramble and thistles with ivy on a mossy forest floor.

Flower study

John Jessop Hardwick, 1866

Watercolor design of an ornate theater curtain with red drapery, green damask, gold tassels, and a procession frieze.

Design for a Theater Curtain

Aimé Chenavard, 1818-38

Watercolor of a wooden bridge with a standing man, thatched cottages, a windmill and hills under a blue sky.

Landscape with a Bridge Near Mosbjerg

Martinus Rørbye, 1833

Pencil and watercolor sketch of snowy mountain ridges in the foreground with a distant peak labeled Mt. Baker above.

Mt. Baker and Mt. McKensie [recto]

Samuel Colman, 1894

Watercolor of a young couple on a path under a ruined stone arch, with green trees and a sunlit ruin beyond.

A Young Couple Viewing Ruins near Bingen

Christian Georg Schütz the Younger, 1801

Architectural drawing with elevations, sections and floor plan of a church, in ink and wash, with handwritten inscriptions.

Design for the Parish Church of Merkershausen

Balthasar Neumann, 1738

Watercolor of a sleeping woman in blue drapery reclining in a shadowy landscape beside a golden vessel and a tree.

Psyche Asleep in a Landscape

Karl Agricola, 1837

Architectural elevation and floor plan of a domed cruciform capitol with columns, a rotunda, House and Senate chambers, and a

First Premium Design for the Capitol of Ohio at Columbus by Walter of Cincinnati

Alexander Jackson Davis, ca. 1839

Architectural elevation and floor plan of a domed, colonnaded capitol building with colored legislative chambers, drawn in in

The Second Premium Design for the Capitol of Ohio, Columbus

Alexander Jackson Davis, ca. 1839

Watercolor architectural drawing of a domed capitol building elevation above its floor plan with a central rotunda.

Plan by T. Cole, Esq. for the Capitol of Ohio

Alexander Jackson Davis, ca. 1839

Architectural drawing of a domed capitol building elevation above its floor plan, with a scale bar and caption for Ohio.

For the Capitol of Ohio, by A.J.D. arch

Alexander Jackson Davis, ca. 1839

Watercolor of a seated figure in red overlooking a calm inlet toward a distant town with church spires and masts.

New Bedford, Massachusetts

William Allen Wall, 1860-1870

Watercolor of a white country house framed by large trees, with a figure in a red coat on a dirt path.

Cloetis

William Brenton Boggs, c. 1855

Pencil and wash drawing of leafless trees on a misty hillside with a small dog in the lower left foreground.

The First Snowfall

Arthur Bowen Davies, c. 1877-1887

Pencil and watercolor drawing of Gothic church ruins with tracery windows, a tree, and stone steps on a rocky slope.

Cathedral Ruins, Bacharach

Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze, 1841

Watercolor of a rustic cottage with tall chimneys, a wooden fence, and a tree, by Cornelius Varley, 1806.

A House, West Humble Lane, Norbury, Surrey

Cornelius Varley, 1806

Watercolor portrait of a moustached man in a red fez and embroidered jacket against a pale background.

Moustachioed Slav in Belgrade

Théodore Valério, 1854