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WOMAN WITH OPERA GLASSES (STUDY FOR "IN THE LOGE").
By Mary Cassatt
Located in Portland, ME
states: "About the time this picture was painted, Cassatt began to carry a small sketchbook in which she
Category
1870s Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Pencil
A Gathering by a Lake in the Roman Campagna 1
Located in West Sussex, GB
sketchbooks (comprising over 200 items) to the British Museum. Some of Ainsley's drawings and watercolours
Category
1830s Romantic Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Oil
A large portrait of Provost Samuel Leckie by William A. Donnelly 1901
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
artist’s sketchbooks.
Category
Early 20th Century English Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Paint
Set of English 19th Century Brass Fire Dogs in the Style of Ernest Gimson
By Ernest Gimson
Located in Wormelow, Herefordshire
17th-century fire dogs. Metalwork makes up a large proportion of pages in his sketchbooks.
Gimson also
Category
Early 19th Century Arts and Crafts Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Metal, Brass, Iron
Painted Folk Art Four-Panel Floor Screen
Located in Troy, NY
oversized idea of the sketchbook or travelogue. One side of the screen shows an imaginary landscape, the
Category
Late 18th Century Italian Country Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Canvas
Portrait of Woman with Jewelry
Located in Fredericksburg, VA
kept a sketchbook (now in the New Orleans Museum of Art, Louisiana) and developed an interest in
Category
Mid-19th Century Hudson River School Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Canvas, Oil
La Lampe Polonoise
By Jean Baptist Le Prince
Located in Fairlawn, OH
listed numerous drawings of Russian subjects, as well as twelve sketchbooks made during his travels in
Category
1770s Old Masters Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Aquatint
Side View Seated Female Nude
By Frank Duveneck
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Factory Collection, Cincinnati
Spanierman Gallery, New York (label)
Drawings from the sketchbook are in
Category
1890s American Impressionist Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Graphite
18th Century, Portrait of a Lady in a Tondo, red chalk drawing
Located in Paris, FR
other interesting fact is that the sheet was without doubt part of a sketchbook. The number 25 related
Category
1770s Baroque Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Chalk
$555 Sale Price
20% Off
Quezal Art Nouveau Lamp
By Quezal
Located in NANTES, FR
others the decoration is bold and distinctive.
Fortunately, a few of the line drawing sketchbooks, trade
Category
1910s French Art Nouveau Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Brass, Copper
$3,325
Side View Seated Female Nude
By Frank Duveneck
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Factory Collection, Cincinnati
Spanierman Gallery, New York (label)
Drawings from the sketchbook are in
Category
1890s American Impressionist Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Graphite
Battle Scene, Spanish American War
By Francis Luis Mora
Located in New York, NY
Sketchbooks are at the Smithsonian and this work came out of one in the early 1990's from the estate. It is
Category
1890s Ashcan School Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Graphite
$1,040 Sale Price
20% Off
19th Century Pair of Marble and Gilt Bronze Figural Candelabra by Eugène Hazart
By Eugene Bazart
Located in London, GB
shaped petals. One base signed in script.
Paris, Circa 1860
This model is recorded in the sketchbooks of
Category
19th Century French Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Marble, Ormolu
Watercolor Painting of the Monseigneur News Theatre, by Reginald Marsh, 1925
By Reginald Marsh
Located in New York, NY
the Louvre in Paris and British museums. With a sketchbook always on hand, he wandered the streets of
Category
1920s Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Watercolor
Kimmeridge Bay
The Clavell Tower The Purbecks Dorset Coast Framed Watercolor
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
spent many hours capturing the scenery in sketchbooks, and once he was back home he turned to his art
Category
Mid-19th Century Victorian Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Meenakshi Temple Madurai Tamil India 1913 Hindu Priest Sacred Elephant Oil Paint
Located in Rancho Santa Fe, CA
college and kept notebooks and sketchbooks during the trip. He was inspired to become a painter by the
Category
1910s Impressionist Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Die Bettler (The Beggars)
By Max Beckmann
Located in Fairlawn, OH
sketchbook.
Courtesy British Museum
Category
1920s Expressionist Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Lithograph
The Violinist (Antique Ellsworth Woodward Figurative Graphite Sketch Drawing)
By Ellsworth Woodward
Located in New Orleans, LA
sketchbook. Unsigned, but came as part of a portfolio of his drawings I acquired earlier this year, so is
Category
1890s Romantic Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Graphite
Castle Top Vinaigrette, Warwick Castle, Birmingham, 1847, Nathaniel Mills
By Nathaniel Mills
Located in London, GB
the Kenilworth Sketchbooks, which are now in the Turner Bequest. We have only seen this engraved
Category
1840s British Victorian Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Sterling Silver
Tree and House - Charcoal by E.-L. Minet - Early 1900
By Emile-Louis Minet
Located in Roma, IT
state of preservation is excellent. The piece of paper comes from a sketchbook, and it presents some
Category
Early 1900s Naturalistic Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Charcoal, Pencil
The Chess Game (antique drawing by leader of "Southern Art Renaissance")
By Ellsworth Woodward
Located in New Orleans, LA
sketchbook. Signed EW - came as part of a portfolio of his drawings I acquired earlier this year.
Proudly
Category
1890s Romantic Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Graphite
Young Lady With Coiffure - Ellsworth Woodward Antique Graphite Drawing
By Ellsworth Woodward
Located in New Orleans, LA
from a sketchbook; I purchased it as part of a group of Woodward drawings. It isn't signed, but it is
Category
1890s Romantic Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Graphite
Cloak and Dagger (Ellsworth Woodward Antique Figurative Graphite Drawing)
By Ellsworth Woodward
Located in New Orleans, LA
from a sketchbook; I purchased it as part of a group of Woodward drawings. It isn't signed, but it is
Category
1890s Romantic Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Graphite
Study for a Seated Woman (by leader of "Southern Art Renaissance")
By Ellsworth Woodward
Located in New Orleans, LA
from a sketchbook; it is on paper, mounted to cardboard for stability, which can be trimmed. The paper
Category
1890s Romantic Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Ink
18th century portrait drawing of the Rev. William Atkinson
By George Romney
Located in London, GB
1769. It is likely that the present drawing was originally part of a sketchbook, now largely
Category
18th Century Old Masters Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Pencil
Cubist Portrait of Gabriele Varese (in Italian uniform), 1919
Located in Stockholm, SE
other things. A number of sketchbooks bear testimony to the boys’ talent.
Dick Beer’s parents died in
Category
1910s Cubist Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Panel
$13,302 Sale Price
20% Off
Sketch-book Page, Shoreham, Samuel Palmer, Late 19th Century
By Samuel Palmer (b.1805)
Located in London, GB
wrote in his 1824 sketchbook, 'whatever you do, guard against bleakness & grandeur and try for the
Category
Late 19th Century Victorian Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Hokai-bushi
By Emil Orlik
Located in London, GB
is also dated 1900.
The work is from one of the artist’s sketchbooks.
Note:
The term Hokai-bushi is
Category
Early 1900s Modern Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Watercolor
Studies and notes - Ink and Pencil on Paper y Anonymous Master - Early 1800
Located in Roma, IT
damaged.
This is probably a piece of paper from a sketchbook. Overall, the drawing is beautiful, pleasant
Category
Early 19th Century Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Ink, Pencil
1869-86 The Novels of William Makepeace Thackeray
By William Makepeace Thackeray
Located in Bath, GB
plates. Collated, complete.
Volume XII, 'Paris Sketchbook and The Yellowplush Papers', published in 1869
Category
Late 19th Century British Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Paper
17th century etching black and white landscape scene forest trees figures sky
By Claude Lorrain
Located in Milwaukee, WI
satisfy his patrons, his pictures include gods, heroes, and saints, even though his sketchbooks contain
Category
1630s Old Masters Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Etching
17th century etching black and white landscape forest trees river scene
By Claude Lorrain
Located in Milwaukee, WI
include gods, heroes, and saints, even though his sketchbooks contain many drawings of the natural world
Category
1630s Old Masters Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Etching
17th century etching black and white landscape scene forest trees cattle
By Claude Lorrain
Located in Milwaukee, WI
satisfy his patrons, his pictures include gods, heroes, and saints, even though his sketchbooks contain
Category
1630s Old Masters Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Etching
17th century etching black and white landscape scene forest trees goats
By Claude Lorrain
Located in Milwaukee, WI
though his sketchbooks contain many drawings of the natural world. Joachim van Sandrart, a German artist
Category
1630s Old Masters Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Etching
17th century etching black and white landscape scene forest trees figures
By Claude Lorrain
Located in Milwaukee, WI
include gods, heroes, and saints, even though his sketchbooks contain many drawings of the natural world
Category
Mid-17th Century Old Masters Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Etching
17th century etching black and white landscape forest trees river figures scene
By Claude Lorrain
Located in Milwaukee, WI
satisfy his patrons, his pictures include gods, heroes, and saints, even though his sketchbooks contain
Category
Mid-17th Century Old Masters Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Etching
17th century etching black and white landscape harbor ruins figures scene
By Claude Lorrain
Located in Milwaukee, WI
though his sketchbooks contain many drawings of the natural world. Joachim van Sandrart, a German artist
Category
Mid-17th Century Old Masters Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Engraving
17th century etching black and white landscape forest trees figures scene
By Claude Lorrain
Located in Milwaukee, WI
satisfy his patrons, his pictures include gods, heroes, and saints, even though his sketchbooks contain
Category
Mid-17th Century Old Masters Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Etching
17th century etching black and white landscape forest trees figures scene
By Claude Lorrain
Located in Milwaukee, WI
though his sketchbooks contain many drawings of the natural world. Joachim van Sandrart, a German artist
Category
Mid-17th Century Old Masters Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Etching
17th century etching black and white landscape scene forest trees figures sky
By Claude Lorrain
Located in Milwaukee, WI
satisfy his patrons, his pictures include gods, heroes, and saints, even though his sketchbooks contain
Category
Mid-17th Century Old Masters Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Etching
"Nude with Bowl" - Historic Signed Ellsworth Woodward Antique Portrait Etching
By Ellsworth Woodward
Located in New Orleans, LA
in my inventory). This drawing is very likely from a sketchbook; I purchased it as part of a group of
Category
1890s Art Nouveau Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Etching
Gentleman with Mustache (by leader of "Southern Art Renaissance") - Antique
By Ellsworth Woodward
Located in New Orleans, LA
sketchbook. Unsigned, but came as part of a portfolio of his drawings I acquired earlier this year, so is
Category
1890s Romantic Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Ink
Jules Noel (1810-1881) Landscape with a manor and a traveler, signed drawing
By Jules Noel
Located in Paris, FR
Nantes. During a visit from the Duke of Nemours, to whom he presented his sketchbooks, he received his
Category
1860s Romantic Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Pencil
Jules Noel (1810-1881) Landscape with a fisherman, signed drawing
By Jules Noel
Located in Paris, FR
the Duke of Nemours, to whom he presented his sketchbooks, he received his first commission: His
Category
1860s Romantic Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Pencil
Studies with Landscape - Ink and Pencil on Paper - Early 1800
Located in Roma, IT
. This is probably a piece of paper torn from a sketchbook.
Overall, the drawing is very interesting
Category
Early 19th Century Modern Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Ink, Pencil
Sanguine drawing "Shepherdess on a Donkey" by Nicolaes Berchem
By Nicolaes Berchem
Located in New York, NY
, in order to soak up the romanticism of the country, bringing home sketchbooks full of drawings of
Category
17th Century Dutch School Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Paper, Chalk
Egyptian Buffalo
Farmers 19th Century American Orientalist Framed Watercolor
By Edwin Lord Weeks
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
, taking not only paints and sketchbooks but a camera with which he made one of the earliest records of
Category
Mid-19th Century Romantic Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Seated Young Lady (by leader of "Southern Art Renaissance") - Antique Drawing
By Ellsworth Woodward
Located in New Orleans, LA
). This drawing is very likely from a sketchbook. The paper is not in pristine form, particularly at the
Category
1890s Romantic Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Ink
17th century etching black and white seascape scene boat waves ocean clouds sky
By Claude Lorrain
Located in Milwaukee, WI
include gods, heroes, and saints, even though his sketchbooks contain many drawings of the natural world
Category
Early 17th Century Old Masters Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Etching
17th century etching black and white landscape scene forest trees figures sky
By Claude Lorrain
Located in Milwaukee, WI
include gods, heroes, and saints, even though his sketchbooks contain many drawings of the natural world
Category
Mid-17th Century Old Masters Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Etching
Ancient Oak Trees in Lullingstone Park, Samuel Palmer Watercolour and Ink
By Samuel Palmer (b.1805)
Located in London, GB
humiliating fate". The destruction included "sketchbooks, notebooks, and original works, and lasted for days
Category
Mid-19th Century English School Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Pen
"La Tempete (The Tempest)" an Etching
By Claude Lorrain
Located in Milwaukee, WI
include gods, heroes, and saints, even though his sketchbooks contain many drawings of the natural world
Category
Early 17th Century Old Masters Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Etching
Composition with Nude Woman - Original Pencil Drawing Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Composition with nude woman is a pleasant pencil drawing on a piece of paper from a sketchbook
Category
Early 20th Century Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Pencil
Framed Pair of Antique Chinese Qing Dynasty Ancestor Paintings on Silk
Located in Morristown, NJ
sketchbook of faces for clients to look over. The family would then select features based on the sketches—for
Category
Late 19th Century Chinese Qing Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Silk, Glass, Wood, Paint
La Port De Cannes French Riviera Côte d
Azur Original Framed Watercolor Painting
By Paul Delvaux
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
, drawings, sketchbooks and prints by Delvaux.
In 1981, Delvaux met Andy Warhol in Brussels, and Warhol made
Category
Early 20th Century Romantic Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Popular Dance at Corsica, I. By Swedish Artist Dick Beer, c.1924
Located in Stockholm, SE
drawing and painting, among other things. A number of sketchbooks bear testimony to the boys’ talent.
Dick
Category
1920s Post-Impressionist Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Drawing Attributed to Jean-Baptiste Pillement
By Jean-Baptiste Pillement
Located in Kittery Point, ME
the sketchbook in the collection of Dr. Manuel de Espirito Santo in Lisbon.
Ink and wash on paper
Category
Late 18th Century French Neoclassical Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Paper
$2,200 Sale Price
20% Off
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