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Watercolor

15,707 works

Painted study of an ornamental downspout with a relief sailing ship, palm fronds, letters DPK and the date 1802.

Ornamental Downspout

Samuel W. Ford, c. 1938

Hand-painted entomology plate XVIII showing a small cricket-like insect and a larger spiny insect with long antennae.

Original hand painted plate for the Manual of New Zealand Entomology [Plate XVIII]

George Hudson, 1886

Watercolour of a settler's wooden house and shed in a clearing with tree stumps, forest behind, blue sky.

Settler's home, Merton, near New Plymouth

James Crowe Richmond, 1851

Watercolor of a wooden toddy ladle with a metal-banded bowl and long turned handle on a cream background.

Toddy Ladle

Douglas Campbell, c. 1939

Watercolor of a copper sugar dipper with a wooden handle banded in brass, shown on a pale background.

Sugar Dipper

Annie B. Johnston, c. 1938

Watercolor of a copper sugar dipper with a wooden handle and metal ferrule, tilted against a plain cream background.

Sugar Dipper

Annie B. Johnston, c. 1939

Pencil and watercolour botanical study of Forstera sedifolia with white flowers on thin stems and a flower dissection.

Forstera sedifolia Linn.f. (now known as Forstera sedifolia G. Forst.)

John Buchanan, 1865

Painted drawing of a brass eagle door knocker with a blank shield, spread wings, and a laurel branch on a cream background.

Door Knocker

Frank Gray, c. 1940

Hand-painted entomology plate XVII showing eight numbered insects including grasshoppers, a mantis-like insect, cockroaches a

Original hand painted plate for the Manual of New Zealand Entomology [Plate XVII]

George Hudson, 1886

Pencil drawing of a decorative drain head with embossed stars, a crescent moon, and a rope molding on a plain background.

Drain Head

Herbert Barnard, c. 1941

Watercolour of fishing boats and a large sailing ship on choppy sea under a warm evening sky.

Off the French coast

John Sell Cotman, 1834

Colored drawing of a brass lion-head knocker with ring, front and side views, with a scale bar.

Drawer Pull

Philip Johnson, c. 1936

Watercolour and ink drawing of a cottage with red roof, a bare tree and a grazing calf on a hillside.

Cottage and calf

Raymond McIntyre

Watercolour of a rough timber hut and canvas tent in a forest clearing among tall trees and stumps.

Hut of the "Italian party", old diggings on Buller

James Crowe Richmond, 1862

Watercolor of an ornate arched stone doorway with gilded columns, a decorated dark door, and carved figures.

The Madame B Album

Marie-Blanche Hennelle Fournier, 1870

Painted study of a tapered wooden dough bin with dovetailed corners on a turned-leg stand, by William H. Edwards.

Dough Bin

William H. Edwards, c. 1939

Watercolor drawing of a wooden dough mixer with a metal hand crank on a shaped stand with a lower shelf.

Dough Mixer

Eva Perry, c. 1941

Pencil sketch on tan paper of a seated man with long hair and a draped cloak, head bowed in quiet pose.

H.C. Pollitt

James McNeill Whistler, 1896

Watercolor drawing of a dark cast iron boot-shaped door stop on an ornate tiered base, signed Sarkis Erganian.

Door Stop

Sarkis Erganian, c. 1939

Watercolour of two adjutant storks with long bills and dark plumage standing on a muted purple background.

The Adjutants

Watercolor of a carved wooden eagle with spread wings perched on a rocky base against a blue background.

Wooden Eagle

Henry Murphy, c. 1939

Watercolor study of a carved wooden bust of a man with long hair, white collar and blue cloak on a plain background.

Figurehead: Pilgrim

Mina Lowry, 1935/1942

Painting of a carved wooden figurehead of a man with a headband and green shawl, above orange scrolled ornament on green.

Figurehead

Frank Gray, c. 1937

Watercolor drawing of a green parrotfish with red fins, handwritten fin counts and caption, and a small shell sketch beside i

Labridae (Tas) : Wrasse

Frank Edward Clarke

Portrait of a Man, Possibly Sir Soulden Lawrence

Portrait of a Man, Possibly Sir Soulden Lawrence

John Smart, 1770

Red chalk drawing of a muscular nude male figure with curly hair, turned to one side, on pale paper.

Saint Sebastian

possibly Jacopo Confortini, n.d.

Miniature portrait of a man in a dark blue uniform with a star-shaped order, set in a silver crown-topped frame.

King Charles XIV John

Johan Gustaf Howenschöld, 1795

Watercolor of sunlit orange cliffs above a curving blue bay, with a small white house and a stone wall at right.

From the Naples Region

Magnus Enckell, 1905

Pen and brown ink drawing of a sword-wielding figure, a kneeling man, a seated ruler and onlookers in a columned hall.

Damon and Pythias

called Il Guercino Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, 1632

Painting of two nude figures in a flowery meadow with animals, a magpie, and a white stairway above.

Adam and Eve

Hugo Simberg, 1895

Brown ink and wash drawing of an embrace between two men at left, with a kneeling crowd and arcaded buildings at right.

Joseph Greeting his Brothers

Pier Francesco Mola, c. 1656

Pencil and wash sketch of a village with houses and trees on a sloping hillside path under a pale sky.

Village on Sunny Hillside

Jan van Goyen, 1650-51