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Watercolor paint

Transparent paint produced by mixing ground pigments with water and, generally, gum arabic; it remains water-soluble after drying.

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Works of Art

Winslow Homer, The Shell Heap

1904

Coming Soon: The Murúa Manuscripts: the earliest illustrated manuscripts of the Viceroyalty of Peru

c. 1580–90

1615

Louis Carrogis de Carmontelle, Figures Walking in a Parkland
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c. 1783–1800

Leonardo da Vinci, “Vitruvian Man”

c. 1490

Carlos Julião, “Black Kings and Queens”

c. 1780–1800

Maria Sibylla Merian’s Metamorphosis of a Small Emperor Moth on a Damson Plum
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1679

Timur’s entry into Samarkand, page from the Zafarnama

c. 1436

Escudos de monjas, or nuns’ badges, in New Spain

18th century

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