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Bulls, from Eaux-Fortes Animaux Paysages
By Karl Bodmer
Located in Middletown, NY
engravings, drawings, and whimsical book illustrations. For his contributions in art Bodmer was Knighted by
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Mid-19th Century Realist Antique Drawing Book

Materials

Laid Paper, Etching

Furniture Masterpieces of Duncan Phyfe by Charles O. Cornelius, c1925
By Charles O. Cornelius
Located in valatie, NY
detail drawings. The book has been a result of the assembling of material for an exhibition of the work
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1920s American Antique Drawing Book

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Paper

Peacocks on a Bough
By Karl Bodmer
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
engravings, drawings, and book illustrations. He is best known in the United States as a painter who
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1860s Romantic Antique Drawing Book

Materials

Etching, Watercolor

Wild Boar, from Eaux-Fortes Animaux Paysages: Sanglier
By Karl Bodmer
Located in Middletown, NY
indulged his printmaking skills, producing a large body of engravings, drawings, and whimsical book
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1860s Barbizon School Antique Drawing Book

Materials

Laid Paper, Etching

Sleeping Beauty and other fairy tales by Sir A. Q. Couch, Edmund Dulac illustr.
Located in Middletown, NY
Exhibition for a submission that included one of the original drawings for this book (pl. 31). The
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Early 20th Century English Antique Drawing Book

Materials

Leather, Paper

S. Iosephus - Original Etching by P.A. Killian - 1736
Located in Roma, IT
his book of drawings. In the first marriage Philipp Andreas Kilian married Susanna Sybilla
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1730s Old Masters Antique Drawing Book

Materials

Etching

Artemis
By Auguste Donnay
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Competition Drawing for a book. Alongside an apprenticeship as a woodworker and marbler (with Delebecque
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1890s Art Nouveau Antique Drawing Book

Materials

Lithograph

White Statuary Marble Sculpture Apollo Belvedere 19th Classical Grand Tour
Located in Roma, IT
during the last decade of the 15th century in the book of drawings by a pupil of Domenico Ghirlandaio
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19th Century Other Art Style Antique Drawing Book

Materials

Marble

A Wonderful English Sheraton Period Satinwood Side Table
By Thomas Sheraton
Located in Woodbury, CT
delicate design is true to Thomas Sheraton's "Cabinetmaker and Upholsterer's Drawing Book" of 1792; plate
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18th Century and Earlier British Hepplewhite Antique Drawing Book

Materials

Satinwood

Rare Sheraton Yew Wood Cylinder Bureau Cabinet
By Thomas Sheraton
Located in Bradford on Avon, GB
The bureau is very close to a design on pl. 47 of Sheraton's Drawing Book. The roll-top cylinder
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Late 18th Century English Antique Drawing Book

Rare Sheraton Yew Wood Cylinder Bureau Cabinet
Located in Bradford on Avon, GB
The bureau is very close to a design on pl. 47 of Sheraton's Drawing Book. The roll-top cylinder
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1780s English Sheraton Antique Drawing Book

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Yew

Sheraton Period Mahogany and Satinwood Dressing Table
Located in Witney, OXFORDSHIRE
terminating in brass feet and casters. The design for this table is illustrated in Thomas Sheraton's "Drawing
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18th Century and Earlier English Sheraton Antique Drawing Book

Materials

Mahogany, Satinwood

George III Lady’s Burr Yew and Satinwood Work Table
By Thomas Sheraton
Located in Sutton Coldfield, GB
display at 1 Royal Crescent, Bath. In 'The Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer’s Drawing-Book', Thomas
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1790s English Antique Drawing Book

Materials

Kingwood, Satinwood, Yew

Painted Settee
Located in Litchfield, CT
drawing book (Winterthur Library: Joseph Downs Collections of Manuscripts and Printed Ephemera).
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19th Century Antique Drawing Book

Materials

Maple

Hepplewhite Style Carved Two Chair Back Settee
Located in Woodbury, CT
form of Plate 36(1) of Thomas Sheraton's "Drawing Book", with beaded outline overall and central
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19th Century American Antique Drawing Book

Materials

Mahogany, Pine

Regency Rosewood Sofa Table
Located in New York, NY
"The Cabinet- Maker and Upholsterer’s Drawing Book". This elegant example has a nicely figured rosewood
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18th Century and Earlier English Antique Drawing Book

Regency Mahogany Sofa Table. English C 1800
Located in New York, NY
examples of sofa tables in his renowned book "The Cabinet- Maker and Upholsterers's Drawing Book". This
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19th Century English Antique Drawing Book

PAIR Neoclassical George III Console Tables, English Circa 1800
Located in New York, NY
assimilation of these can been noted in his designs published in 1792, “Drawing Book”, and 1802, “Cabinet
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18th Century and Earlier English Neoclassical Antique Drawing Book

PAIR George III Giltwood Armchairs. Circa 1790
Located in New York, NY
Upholsterer's Drawing Book (1791-94), Plate XXXII. English, Circa 1790
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18th Century and Earlier English Antique Drawing Book

Regency Double Pedestal Sheraton Manner Dining Table
By Gillows of Lancaster London
Located in Woodbury, CT
four ring turned balusters; as per the Thomas Sheraton Drawing Book. Reed edged single board console
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19th Century English Regency Antique Drawing Book

Fine English Georgian Cutlery Set, circa 1780
Located in London, GB
and Upholsterers Drawing Book" in 1791. It was the most reproduced style in the United States during
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Late 18th Century British Sheraton Antique Drawing Book

Superb Regency Six Drawer Library Table
Located in Wells, ME
. Reference: Thomas Sheraton “Cabinet makers and upholsterers drawing book - 1802 (Gallery of Sheraton
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19th Century British Regency Antique Drawing Book

PAIR George III Giltwood Armchairs. Late 18th C
Located in New York, NY
Drawing Book (pub. 1791-94), Plate XXXII. English, Circa 1790 See similar examples
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18th Century and Earlier English Antique Drawing Book

PAIR George III Giltwood Armchairs.
Located in New York, NY
Drawing Book (pub. 1791-94), Plate XXXII. English, Circa 1790 & one a latter copy.
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18th Century and Earlier English Antique Drawing Book

George III Mahogany Pembroke Table
Located in Sutton Coldfield, GB
Upholsterer’s Drawing-Book', Dover Publications Inc, 1972, p.110-112, plate 54). In her' Pictorial Dictionary of
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1780s English Antique Drawing Book

Materials

Mahogany

Set of Eight Edwardian Satinwood Inlaid Dining Chairs with Two Carvers C. 1910
Located in Heathfield, GB
his The cabinet-maker and upholsterer's drawing-book, which he published in several parts between 1791
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1910s Sheraton Antique Drawing Book

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Satinwood, Walnut

Gothic Mahogany Dressing Bureau, circa 1840
Located in Providence, RI
Sheraton, and is illustrated in The Cabinetmakers’ and Upholsterer’s Drawing Book. An early closely
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19th Century American Gothic Antique Drawing Book

Materials

Marble

Antique English Regency Sheraton Style Mahogany Table, circa 1820
Located in Houston, TX
"The Cabinet Maker and Upholsterer's Drawing Book". These four volumes offered a new design esthetic
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1820s English Sheraton Antique Drawing Book

Materials

Mahogany

Exhibition quality satinwood inlaid Carlton House desk in the Classical form
By Edwards Roberts
Located in Suffolk, GB
Cabinetmakers & upholsterers drawing book' but it was Gillows that first used the term 'Carlton House table' in
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Early 20th Century English Antique Drawing Book

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Satinwood

Antique English Pale Mahogany Sheraton Sideboard, circa 1875
Located in Houston, TX
Maker's and Upholsterer's Drawing Book" filled with new designs reflecting the desire for elegance and
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19th Century English Sheraton Antique Drawing Book

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Mahogany

Important Federal Inlaid Mahogany Tambour Cylinder Secretary Bookcase
By John Aitken 1
Located in New York, NY
Upholster’s Drawing Book (London, 1791) is shared by a ladies’ writing desk inscribed “John Aitken
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1790s American Federal Antique Drawing Book

Materials

Mahogany, Rosewood

English slanted desk
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Great desk for display of collector's book or drawings. Mahogany with antique brass hardware
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19th Century English Antique Drawing Book

Materials

Brass

Venini Murano Chandelier Designed by Napoleone Martinuzzi, Italia 1928
By Napoleone Martinuzzi
Located in Firenze, Toscana
eVenini Book and the drawing in Venini Bleu Catalog of the 1920s. The chandelier is interesting not only
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1920s Italian Art Deco Antique Drawing Book

Folk Art Fireboard/Wall Hanging
Located in Sheffield, MA
century book of naturalist drawings. The fire board has a faux frame painted black, with stenciled
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19th Century American Antique Drawing Book

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Wood

Amusing Antique English Hunting Cartoons, Framed
Located in Port Chester, NY
drawings from the book "Ask Mamma", also starring Mr. Sponge. Image #5 "Mr. Sponge is Introduced to
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19th Century English Antique Drawing Book

Fine pair Minton porcelain vases covers, ‘Four Seasons’ c. 1830.
By Minton
Located in Gargrave, North Yorkshire
examples illustrated on the dust cover, and Fig. 122, along with an archive drawing from the ‘Minton Book
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1830s English Georgian Antique Drawing Book

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Porcelain

Rare Southern One Drawer Tavern Table
Located in Litchfield, CT
French furniture maker's manual as per the drawing illustrated in the book. Drawer structures on the book
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18th Century and Earlier American Antique Drawing Book

Materials

Walnut, Fir

Set of Four Brass-Inlaid Carved Mahogany Klismos Chairs
By Richard Parkin
Located in New York, NY
book drawing of the period.   
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1830s American Neoclassical Antique Drawing Book

Materials

Upholstery, Mahogany

19th Century Watercolor Painting by Joseph Nash, “Pilgrims, Canterbury Cathedral
By Joseph Nash
Located in Gallatin, TN
assist and prepare architectural drawings for a book entitled “Paris and its Environs”, published in 1830
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19th Century Antique Drawing Book

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Watercolor

Set of 4 Satire: Physic, A Pastoral Petticoat, Spoony, A Lion
Located in Florham Park, NJ
Worthies of the Nineteenth Century “. Intended as a pleasure book for the drawing room
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19th Century British Antique Drawing Book

Whimsical Children s Book Illustration
By Lucille Murphy
Located in Minneapolis, MN
in this art deco era children's book illustration by Lucille Murphy (signed and dated lower right
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1920s Art Deco Antique Drawing Book

Materials

Ink, Paper

English Country House Edwardian Mahogany Carlton House Desk
By George Hepplewhite
Located in Salisbury, GB
drawing book.’ Imagine the pleasure you will have owning this wonderful desk, and the many compliments
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Early 1900s British Hepplewhite Antique Drawing Book

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Mahogany

French History Book-Les Grandes Epoques de la France, 1868
Located in Austin, TX
, Charlemagne, Francois 1st, Louis XIV and a few others. A few black and white drawings illustrate the book.
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Mid-19th Century French Antique Drawing Book

Materials

Leather, Paper

18th Century Painted and Gilded Armchairs
By François Hervé
Located in Richmond, London
, described as 'in the newest taste' featured in Thomas Sheraton's, Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Drawing
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Late 18th Century English Georgian Antique Drawing Book

Materials

Wood

Pair of Chinese Chippendale Period Ladderback Armchairs, English, circa 1765
By Gillows of Lancaster London
Located in New York, NY
. Plate 104 shows a colored drawing from the colored sketch book by Gillows for this model "fiddle back
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1760s English Chippendale Antique Drawing Book

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Mahogany

Early 19th Century Klismos Chairs
By Gillows of Lancaster London
Located in Richmond, London
characteristic of the Gillows workmen. The design of these chairs corresponds to a drawing in Gillows' Estimate
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Early 19th Century English Regency Antique Drawing Book

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Upholstery, Hardwood

Set of Six Regency Mahogany Klismos Dining Chairs, Attributed to Gillows
By Gillows of Lancaster London
Located in Richmond, London
corresponds to a drawing in Gillows' estimate sketch book for 22 July 1805. They are designed in the
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Early 19th Century English Regency Antique Drawing Book

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Mahogany

Antique Bookcase, Antique Display Cabinet, Walnut, Victorian, American 1890 B813
Located in Vancouver, BC
States used the drawings and ideas in the book to create mass-produced Eastlake Style or Cottage
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1890s American Antique Drawing Book

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Walnut

Quail Shooting -- An Unexpected Bevy
By Arthur Burdett Frost
Located in Florham Park, NJ
ARTHUR BURDETT FROST A Book of Drawings Collier and Sons New York, 1904 Hand-colored Halftone
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Early 1900s American Realist Antique Drawing Book

Materials

Lithograph, Watercolor

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Antique Drawing Book For Sale on 1stDibs

On 1stDibs, you can find the most appropriate antique drawing book for your needs in our varied inventory. You can easily find an example made in the modern style, while we also have 395 modern versions to choose from as well. You’re likely to find the perfect antique drawing book among the distinctive items we have available, which includes versions made as long ago as the 18th Century as well as those made as recently as the 20th Century. Adding an antique drawing book to a room that is mostly decorated in warm neutral tones can yield a welcome change — find a piece on 1stDibs that incorporates elements of beige, gray, white, black and more. Finding an appealing antique drawing book — no matter the origin — is easy, but Jean Jeacques Grandville, Vincenzo Campana, Carlo Nolli, Giovanni Elia Morghen and Francesco Cepparoli each produced popular versions that are worth a look. Frequently made by artists working in etching, paper and paint, these artworks are unique and have attracted attention over the years.

How Much is a Antique Drawing Book?

The price for an artwork of this kind can differ depending upon size, time period and other attributes — an antique drawing book in our inventory may begin at $39 and can go as high as $850,000, while the average can fetch as much as $420.