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Childhood , Paris, Salon d Automne, New York, ASL, Corcoran, PAFA, Art Deco
By Nura Ulreich
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right 'Nura' for Nura Woodson Ulreich (American, 1899–1950). Titled, verso, 'Childhood', signed with artist's Paris address and dated 1926. This early twentieth-century...
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1920s Surrealist Antique Drawing Board

Materials

Watercolor, Gouache, Illustration Board

Spanish Bridge, Segovia , Woman Artist, Paris Salon, Cooper Union, ASL, PAFA
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Elizabeth Gowdy Baker' (American, 1860-1927) and painted circa 1910. Exhibited: New York Watercolor Club, Circa 1900 After graduating from Monmouth College, Eli...
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Early 1900s Impressionist Antique Drawing Board

Materials

Watercolor, Board, Laid Paper

"The Sphynx is Weary, She Dreams o er the World" John La Farge, American Artist
By John La Farge
Located in New York, NY
Gouache, watercolor and black chalk on illustration board 10 1/4 x 12 3/8 inches Provenance F. Burrall
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1860s Symbolist Antique Drawing Board

Materials

Chalk, Watercolor, Gouache, Illustration Board

Nymph with a Centaur , French School, Academic, Greek Mythological Grisaille
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
'Nymph with a Centaur' by T.M. French School, Academic, Framed Greek Mythological Grisaille --- An exceptionally fine, brush and wash, mythological figural study showing a centaur i...
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Early 1900s Academic Antique Drawing Board

Materials

Paper, Watercolor, Illustration Board

Skating Woman, American Art Works Calendar Illustration, 1917
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Watercolor and Gouache on Board Signature: Signed Lower Right "Skating", American Art
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1910s Antique Drawing Board

Materials

Watercolor, Gouache, Board

At the Black Cat
By Charles Dana Gibson
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Pen and Ink Over Graphite on Board Signature: Signed "C. D. Gibson" in lower left "At the
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1890s Antique Drawing Board

Materials

Ink, Board, Pen

Antique Victorian Watercolour of Whitby Harbour by 19th Century British Artist
By William Langley
Located in Preston, GB
captivating piece. Mounted on its original gold mount board inscribed “Whitby by W. Langley”, and presented
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1890s Victorian Antique Drawing Board

Materials

Gold

Life Magazine Story Illustration
By Orson Byron Lowell
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Pen and Ink on Board Signature: Signed Lower Left Story Illustration- Life Magazine ca
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1910s Antique Drawing Board

Materials

Ink, Board, Pen

Boy with Clarinet, Cover for Children Magazine, 1927
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Pastel and Gouache on Board Signature: "Alice Beach Winter" Lower Right "Boy with Clarinet
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1920s Antique Drawing Board

Materials

Pastel, Gouache, Board

Cecil Aldin MFH for Abercrombie Fitch
Located in Bristol, CT
) (LL) etching on board together w/ Abercrombie & Fitch 'Made in England' label on verso Image Sz: 4 7
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Early 20th Century Antique Drawing Board

Materials

Crayon, Board

"The Rivals"
By John Howitt
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1910 Medium: Charcoal on Board Dimensions: 25.00" x 35.50" Signature: Signed Lower Right
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1910s Antique Drawing Board

Materials

Charcoal, Board

Schooner beached on the moors at sunset, Nothe Fort in the distance, Dorset.
Located in Middletown, NY
Watercolor on cream wove paper mounted to light weight card stock, 3 3/4 x 5 1/2 inches (94 x 138 mm), the full sheet. In good condition with minor uniform toning. Sophia Beale was...
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Late 19th Century English School Antique Drawing Board

Materials

Watercolor, Board, Handmade Paper

Reading Before Bed, Original Illustration, Mother, Daughter, Cat, Book Worm
Located in Grand Rapids, MI
. 1900-1920 Watercolor and Gouache on Paper Laid on Illustration Board Image Size: 10" x 11 1/4" Board
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Early 20th Century Realist Antique Drawing Board

Materials

Paper, Watercolor, Gouache, Illustration Board

Thanksgiving, The Saturday Evening Post Cover, November 1905
By Guernsey Moore
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Watercolor and Ink on Board Signature: Signed Upper Right Dimensions: Sight Size 16.00" x
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Early 1900s Antique Drawing Board

Materials

Ink, Watercolor, Board

Satyr, Pan and Deer - Greek mythology
Located in Miami, FL
This pen and ink from 1920 depicts a Greek mythological scene with a Satyr companioning Pan, who plays the flute to an interested woodland deer. It is rendered in minute detail with...
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1920s Surrealist Antique Drawing Board

Materials

India Ink, Board, Pencil

Eatin Strawberries
By Harold Brett
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1904 Medium: Watercolor and Gouache on Board Dimensions: 30.00" x 20.00"
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Early 1900s Antique Drawing Board

Materials

Watercolor, Gouache, Board

Little Girl Feeding the Bunnies, Probable Magazine Cover
By Florence E. Nosworthy
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Watercolor on Board Dimensions: 19.50" x 15.50" Signature: Signed Lower Right
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Early 20th Century Antique Drawing Board

Materials

Watercolor, Board

"The Instruction"
By Leone M. Bracker
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Charcoal on Board Dimensions: 24.00" x 36.00" Signature: Signed Lower Right
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Late 19th Century Antique Drawing Board

Materials

Charcoal, Board

More Attractive, Life Magazine Interior Illustration
By Harrison Fisher
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Gouache, Pencil, and Wash on Board Signature: Signed and Dated Lower Right: Harrison
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Early 1900s Antique Drawing Board

Materials

Gouache, Board, Pencil

Playing in the Field
By Walter Granville-Smith
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Watercolor on Board Dimensions: 20.00" x 12.50" Signature: Signed Lower Left Early 1900's
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Early 20th Century Antique Drawing Board

Materials

Watercolor, Board

The Wise Book Children s Book Illustration- Woman Illustrator - Arts and Crafts
Located in Miami, FL
regarded as "much better" than her work in Alice: "The bistre drawings have a charming effect, and [Sowerby
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Early 1900s Victorian Antique Drawing Board

Materials

Ink, Watercolor, Gouache, Board

(Untitled)
By Ernest Leonard Blumenschein
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Charcoal on Board Dimensions: 14.00" x 8.00" Signature: Signed Lower Right Magazine story
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Early 20th Century Antique Drawing Board

Materials

Charcoal, Board

Singing Woman
By Archie Gunn
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1927 Signature: Signed Lower Left Dimensions: 23.00" x 14.25" Medium: Watercolor on Board
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Early 20th Century Antique Drawing Board

Materials

Board, Watercolor

"Now that her chance was come, Janet seemed loath to speak."
By Alice Barber Stephens
Located in Fort Washington, PA
loath to speak.” Board measures 23.75 x 16 inches. Image area measures 21 x 12.75 inches. Framed under
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Early 20th Century Antique Drawing Board

Materials

Charcoal, Board

Alpine Landscape in Piedmont , Munich School Professor
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'Hans Blum' (German, 1858-1942) and painted circa 1911. Provenance: Exhibited, 'Jubiläums- Ausstellung der Münchener Künstler-Genossenschaft', München 1911 ('Anniv...
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1910s Impressionist Antique Drawing Board

Materials

Paper, Watercolor, Gouache, Illustration Board

The Best People, Original Promotional Movie Illustration
By Alberto Vargas
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Watercolor and Ink on Board with Collage Signature: Unsigned Sight Size 16.25" x 11.75
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1920s Antique Drawing Board

Materials

Ink, Watercolor, Board

Saturday Evening Post story, 1920s Parlor Scene
By Arthur William Brown
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1920 Medium: Charcoal and Watercolor on Board Dimensions: 16.00" x 19.00" Signature: Signed
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1920s Antique Drawing Board

Materials

Charcoal, Watercolor, Board

The Redwoods of the Northern California Coast - Watercolor by Lillian Dake Heath
Located in Soquel, CA
The Redwoods of the Northern California Coast - Watercolor by Lillian Dake Heath The Redwoods and a country road in Davenport California a Watercolor by Lillian Dake Heath (American,...
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1920s American Impressionist Antique Drawing Board

Materials

Watercolor, Illustration Board, Laid Paper

Paysage avec batteuse a Montfoucault
By Camille Pissarro
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Paysage avec batteuse a Montfoucault (Landscape with Thresher at Montfoucault)" is a pastel by French Impressionist Camille Pissarro. The artwork is signed lower right, "C. Pissarro...
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1870s Impressionist Antique Drawing Board

Materials

Paper, Pastel, Board

Waiter Collecting Bill
By George Goursat
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Pen and Ink on Board Signature: Signed Lower Right This work is a political cartoon of a
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Early 19th Century Antique Drawing Board

Materials

Ink, Board, Pen

Political Cartoon
By George Goursat
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Pen and Ink on Board Signature: Signed Lower Right A political cartoon of a man and a
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Late 19th Century Antique Drawing Board

Materials

Ink, Board, Pen

Pine trees in a river valley with the Blue Ridge Mountains - American School
Located in Middletown, NY
River valley with the Blue Ridge Mountains in the distance. Watercolor on board with black crayon, 8 1
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Early 1900s American Impressionist Antique Drawing Board

Materials

Crayon, Watercolor, Board

Girl with Braids
By Wladyslaw T. Benda
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Charcoal, Pastel, and Watercolor on Board Signature: Signed Lower Right Sight Size 18.75" x
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1920s Antique Drawing Board

Materials

Charcoal, Pastel, Watercolor, Board

Elderly cobbler reading paper peering out window
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Gouache and Watercolor on Board Signature: Unsigned Postcard illustration; publisher: (The
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Early 1900s Antique Drawing Board

Materials

Watercolor, Gouache, Board

"The stylish church folks didn’t want him to play Santa Claus"
By George Brehm
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Charcoal and Ink Wash on Board Dimensions: 23.50" x 30.00" Signature: Signed Lower Right
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Early 20th Century Antique Drawing Board

Materials

Charcoal, Ink, Board

The Forest Duel
By Winold Reiss
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Pen and Ink on Board Dimensions: 16.00" x 12.00" Signature: Signed Lower Left book
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Early 20th Century Antique Drawing Board

Materials

Ink, Board, Pen

View of Dunoon on the Clyde, Scottish landscape and Figures, 19th Century
Located in Hillsborough, NC
in oil and watercolor. This painting features detailed drawings of figures in the foreground with
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19th Century Naturalistic Antique Drawing Board

Materials

Watercolor, Board, Pencil

1890 Political Cartoon by "Crichton" of Michael Henry de Young
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: India Ink on Illustration Board Signature: Signed "Crichton" Lower Left Sight Size 20.00" x
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1890s Antique Drawing Board

Materials

India Ink, Illustration Board

Children with Firecrackers
By Worth Brehm
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Charcoal on Illustration Board Signature: Initialed Middle Left Contact for exact
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Early 20th Century Antique Drawing Board

Materials

Charcoal, Illustration Board

The Unraveling Secret
By Winold Reiss
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Pen and Ink on Board Dimensions: 16.00" x 12.00" Signature: Signed Lower Right "Man in
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Early 20th Century Antique Drawing Board

Materials

Ink, Board, Pen

"A strange dog was sitting calmly among the ruins of the feast."
By Alice Barber Stephens
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Frontispiece for Under the Lilacs by Louisa May Alcott for the 1906 edition published by Little, Brown, and Company The full caption reads: "A strange dog was sitting calmly among t...
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Early 1900s Antique Drawing Board

Materials

Charcoal, Board

Girl Collecting Flowers
By Archie Gunn
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signed Lower Left Likely an illustration for a Gerlach Barklow Yard Long Calendar, circa 1915
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1910s Antique Drawing Board

Materials

Watercolor, Board

Cream of Wheat Ad
By James Montgomery Flagg
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signed Lower Left
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1910s Antique Drawing Board

Materials

Watercolor, Board

Penrod, Sam and Roddy Bits fighting for the “Horn of Fame”
By Worth Brehm
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Published for the serialized Penrod and Sam stories in Cosmopolitan Magazine between 1910 and 1918 Signed Upper Left by the Artist
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1910s Antique Drawing Board

Materials

Charcoal, Board

19th Century Meissen Painting with "animal, - landscape painting and personage"
By Meissen Porcelain
Located in Remshalden-Grunbach, DE
porcelain drawing board depicts exquisite "animals, landscapes and people." A rotatable shelf made of
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Late 19th Century German Antique Drawing Board

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Porcelain

“The eager young man saw the rose..."
By Ellen Wetherald Ahrens
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Boy at doorway watching young woman play piano. “The eager young man saw the rose and was struck speechless with delight…” Illustration for Jo's Boys by Louisa May Alcott, for the ...
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Early 1900s Antique Drawing Board

Materials

Charcoal, Board

“Waterfall with Birches”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original watercolor of a waterfall with birch trees on illustration board by the well known
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1920s Post-Impressionist Antique Drawing Board

Materials

Watercolor, Illustration Board

The Bully - Narrative Art by Female Illustrator Golden Age of Illustration
By Maginel Wright Enright Barney
Located in Miami, FL
The present work exhibits a storytelling and illustration art style created before the mass communications age. It was rendered in a flat linear style by the highly talented Maginel ...
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1910s American Impressionist Antique Drawing Board

Materials

India Ink, Watercolor, Board

Pabst Malt Extract, Original Advertisement, Art Nouveau Style, Milwaukee
Located in Fort Washington, PA
1900s Medium: Watercolor & Ink on Board Dimensions: 13" x 8.5" Signature: Unsigned American Artist
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Early 20th Century Antique Drawing Board

Materials

Board, Ink, Watercolor

Imperial Woodpecker, aka Ivory Billed Woodpecker, Ornithology, Birdwatching
Located in Grand Rapids, MI
Board Site Size: 15 3/8" x 11 3/8" Board Size: 19 1/2" x 14 3/8" Housed in a 1 1/4" Period Carved
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Late 19th Century American Realist Antique Drawing Board

Materials

Watercolor, Gouache, Illustration Board

Wheat Field Harvest, Early 20th Century Figurative Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
for L. Frosini Italy. Signed "S. Frosini" lower left. Unframed. Board size: 13.25"H x 19.75"W
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Early 20th Century Impressionist Antique Drawing Board

Materials

Gouache, Illustration Board

"Summer"
By Gershon Benjamin
Located in Lambertville, NJ
, with whom he studied figural drawing. While in New York, Gershon Benjamin began to associate with a
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1920s Modern Antique Drawing Board

Materials

Pastel, Board

Seated Nude
By August Gerasch
Located in Buffalo, NY
You are viewing one of a pair of stunning antique realist drawings by well listed Viennese artist
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Mid-19th Century Realist Antique Drawing Board

Materials

Archival Paper, Board, Graphite

Thanksgiving
By Revere Wistehuff
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Watercolor and Gouache on Board Sight Size 6.00" x 8.00"; Framed 13.00" x 15.00" Signature
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Early 20th Century Antique Drawing Board

Materials

Watercolor, Gouache, Board

Mr. Bingle
By James Montgomery Flagg
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signed Lower Left "Mr. Bingle." Frontispiece illustration for "Mr. Bingle" by George Barr McCutcheon (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1915.)
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1910s Antique Drawing Board

Materials

Ink, Board, Pen

Mother and Child, Golden Age of Illustration
By Jessie Willcox Smith
Located in Miami, FL
board, sheet 12-1/2 x 14-1/2 in; - Matted size 20 x 18.5 -matt has frayed edges and under plexi - Matted
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Early 1900s Art Nouveau Antique Drawing Board

Materials

Ink, Illustration Board, Pen

Abstract Silhouette Hat Portraits - Female Illustrator of Golden Age
By Jessie Gillespie
Located in Miami, FL
[15] and served on its Board of Governors from 1941-1970. In 1963, she received the Gold Medal of the
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1910s Victorian Antique Drawing Board

Materials

Ink, Illustration Board, Pen

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Antique Drawing Board For Sale on 1stDibs

You are likely to find exactly the antique drawing board you’re looking for on 1stDibs, as there is a broad range for sale. In our selection of items, you can find Impressionist examples as well as a Post-Impressionist version. Making the right choice when shopping for an antique drawing board may mean carefully reviewing examples of this item dating from different eras — you can find an early iteration of this piece from the 18th Century and a newer version made as recently as the 20th Century. If you’re looking to add an antique drawing board to create new energy in an otherwise neutral space in your home, you can find a work on 1stDibs that features elements of brown, beige, gray, blue and more. There have been many interesting antique drawing board examples over the years, but those made by Worth Brehm, Alice Barber Stephens, Leone M. Bracker, William Wallace Denslow and James Montgomery Flagg are often thought to be among the most thought-provoking. These artworks were handmade with extraordinary care, with artists most often working in board, paint and watercolor.

How Much is a Antique Drawing Board?

The price for an antique drawing board in our collection starts at $200 and tops out at $165,000 with the average selling for $3,175.