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Bridge on the River - Charcoal and Pencil by E.-L. Minet - 1919
By Emile-Louis Minet
Located in Roma, IT
torn from a sketchbook, and it presents some fringes on the higher margin. On the back, two trees are
Category
1910s Naturalistic Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Charcoal, Pencil
3 Jewish Men Judaica Woodblock Woodcut Engraving Print Chicago 1930s WPA Artist
By Todros Geller
Located in Surfside, FL
career. The archive includes photographs, sketchbooks, original artwork, commissions for stained glass
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Paper, Woodcut
Ecce Homo VII
By Werner Drewes
Located in Fairlawn, OH
only made tolerable by his sketchbook, a copy of Goethe's Faust and a volume of Nietzsche.
For a
Category
1920s Expressionist Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Woodcut
Landscape with Trees and a Fisherman walking, a drawing by Jan Van Goyen
By Jan Josefsz Van Goyen
Located in PARIS, FR
in black chalk. A small sketchbook tucked into his pocket, the draughtsman in search of inspiration
Category
1650s Old Masters Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Chalk, Ink, Laid Paper
A Street in Ventnor, Isle of Wight
By Theodore Casimir Roussel
Located in New York, NY
the Isle of Wight in the summer of 1912, filling two sketchbooks with drawings; based on the dating of
Category
1910s Impressionist Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
"Eleventh Century Romance, " Walter Griffin, American Impressionism Landscape
By Walter Griffin
Located in New York, NY
sketchbooks then sailed home in 1897 to take the position of director of the School of the Society of Art in
Category
Early 20th Century American Impressionist Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Early 20th Century Late Afternoon Monterey Landscape by James Everett Stuart
By James Everett Stuart
Located in Soquel, CA
food, climbed steep cliffs including Electric Peak, and filled his sketchbook for studio paintings. The
Category
1910s American Impressionist Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Marine Scene at Sunset by James Everett Stuart
By James Everett Stuart
Located in San Francisco, CA
fish for food, climbed steep cliffs including Electric Peak, and filled his sketchbook for studio
Category
Late 19th Century American Romantic Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Paint
E W Godwin Attributed to an Anglo Japanese Mahogany Side Table
By Collinson
Lock, Edward William Godwin
Located in London, GB
tables in a sketchbook from 1876 and 1881 (Elizabeth Aslin, E.W.Godwin page 79) and again on a design for
Category
1870s English Anglo-Japanese Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Mahogany
Sketchbook Page, Scenes from Venice
Located in Providence, RI
Charming sketchbook page of scenes of Venice. Attributed to Albert Sterner (British/American, 1863
Category
Late 19th Century Realist Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Paper, Ink
Anonymous sketchbook of the mid-eighteenth century
Located in Paris, FR
Beautiful and rare little sketchbook of the mid-eighteenth century containing thirty-eight leaves
Category
Mid-18th Century Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Pencil
Sketchbook Page Academic Drawing Centaur being Abducted France 1910
Located in Antwerpen, BE
Presenting a captivating 1910 sketchbook page featuring an academic drawing of a centaur being
Category
Early 20th Century French French Provincial Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Paper
Rare Original Framed Sketches Roxby Beverley 19th Century Theatrical Scene Art
Located in Totnes, GB
An intriguing framed and glazed page from the sketchbook of William Roxby Beverley, renowned 19th
Category
Late 19th Century English Victorian Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Paper
Self-portrait of an artist
Located in Greven, DE
sketchbook)
Provenance: Private Collection Heinrich Lempertz, Cologne (Lugt)
Category
18th Century and Earlier Old Masters Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Chalk, Paper
A black man in Georgetown - late 19th century drawing in graphite by GW Maynard
Located in London, GB
taken from his 1875 sketchbook, a charming example of his observational skills. This drawing is mounted
Category
1870s Naturalistic Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Pencil, Graphite
A black man in Washington - late 19th century drawing in graphite by GW Maynard
Located in London, GB
his 1875 sketchbook. It is a charming depiction of a late-nineteenth century black man wearing a top
Category
1870s Naturalistic Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Pencil, Graphite
New York Yacht Club Race, 1878
By Antonio Jacobsen
Located in New York, NY
a yacht register. I was also able to find a sketch in Jacobsen's sketchbook #13 (1878) that most
Category
1870s Academic Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Tower Street Scheveningen - Dutch - Town view - Charles Leickert - Summer
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
landscapes and river views, in which he incorporated all kinds of motifs from his sketchbooks. After 1859, he
Category
1860s Romantic Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Oil, Panel
The ferry
By Charles Henri Joseph Leickert
Located in Ede, NL
from his sketchbooks. After 1859 he also painted beach scenes and cityscapes. The appeal of his
Category
19th Century Romantic Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Oil, Panel
A town in winter with skaters
By Charles Henri Joseph Leickert
Located in Ede, NL
from his sketchbooks. After 1859 he also painted beach scenes and cityscapes. The appeal of his
Category
19th Century Romantic Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Upcoming snowstorm
By Charles Henri Joseph Leickert
Located in Ede, NL
from his sketchbooks. After 1859 he also painted beach scenes and cityscapes. The appeal of his
Category
Mid-19th Century Romantic Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Oil, Panel
Watercolor The War Of 1812 Barkentine Grand Turk Of Salem
Located in Palm City, FL
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Roux, Ange-Joseph Antoine ( French [1765-1835] )
For an inside look into Antoine Roux's sketchbooks
Category
19th Century American Antique Sketchbooks
Pont au Double, Notre Dame, and Hôtel Dieu
By Charles François Daubigny
Located in New York, NY
drawing was not for this project, it is very similar to the drawings found in the sketchbook for Voyage de
Category
1840s Barbizon School Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Paper, Chalk, Pencil
Gillows of Lancaster walnut and thuya wood sideboard, England circa 1877
By Gillows of Lancaster
London
Located in Macclesfield, Cheshire
, sketched on 21st August 1877 in Gillow Estimate Sketchbook, even to the painted panels costing £1-15-0
Category
1870s English Arts and Crafts Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Walnut
Desert Wilderness
By Maynard Dixon
Located in Graton, CA
sketchbook to an artist he highly admired, Frederic Remington, who encouraged Dixon to pursue his artistic
Category
Early 20th Century American Impressionist Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Oil
A dune landscape with Haarlem in the distance
By Andreas Schelfhout
Located in Ede, NL
, he would habitually fill up his sketchbooks with nature studies, which he would subsequently use in
Category
1840s Romantic Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Oil, Panel
Frozen river with skaters and a koek and zopie
By Andreas Schelfhout
Located in Ede, NL
abroad. During his travels, he would habitually fill up his sketchbooks with nature studies, which he
Category
1830s Romantic Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Oil, Panel
Roadway About 1 1/2 Miles North of Bolinas California
By James Everett Stuart
Located in Graton, CA
including Electric Peak, and filled his sketchbook for studio paintings. The following summer, Stuart
Category
Late 19th Century American Realist Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Oil
Dürer and Rembrandt, Pair of Bronze Sculptures by Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse
By Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse
Located in Marseille, FR
executed with the utmost realism. Rembrandt is titled on his artist portfolio, sketchbook under his arm
Category
Late 19th Century French Renaissance Revival Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Bronze
Stangate Creek on the River Medway
By (After) Joseph Mallord William Turner
Located in New York, NY
from 1802, typically returning with voluminous sketchbooks.
Intensely private, eccentric and reclusive
Category
1820s Romantic Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Engraving
Studies Of A Lion, Boar, Dog And Eagles, Stefano Della Bella
By Stefano Della Bella
Located in New York, NY
sketchbooks filled with drawings, capturing all aspects of life in a distinctly new style. Leaving behind
Category
18th Century and Earlier Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Pen
Project of octagonal building attr. to Antoine-François Peyre circa 1780
By Antoine-François Peyre
Located in Paris, FR
sheet, certainly known by transmission. The style is consistent with the style of a known sketchbook of
Category
Late 18th Century Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Pen
18th C Dutch Old Master Drawing by Elias van Nijmegen: Semiramis Overdoor Design
Located in Gouda, NL
together, comprised of some 250 drawings and one sketchbook, and was purchased by the Rijksprentenkabinet
Category
Early 18th Century Old Masters Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
16th C Italian Old Master Drawing c.1505 by Marcantonio Raimondi Allegory
By Marcantonio Raimondi
Located in Gouda, NL
century, and they all bear his collector’s mark. They were once part of a dismembered sketchbook and some
Category
16th Century Old Masters Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Ink
19th Dutch Watercolor Drawing by Johan Barthold Jongkind Landscape in France
By Johan Barthold Jongkind
Located in Gouda, NL
Charles Baudelaire praised the artist.
In this superb sketchbook watercolour Jongkind shows himself to be
Category
Late 19th Century Impressionist Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Chalk, Watercolor
STUDIES OF HEAD OF WOMEN
By Adolf von Menzel
Located in Frankfurt, DE
encountered, Menzel would pull out one of the sketchbooks that he carried with him at all times, stop whatever
Category
Late 19th Century Antique Sketchbooks
Exceptional French Bronze Jardinière Attributed to L. Messagé and Colin, C. 1885
Located in Paris, FR
ornaments, he related to the Rocaille asymmetry found in the sketchbooks of Nicolas Pineau or J. A
Category
19th Century French Rococo Revival Antique Sketchbooks
Fishing Scene in Pennsylvania, Landscape by Xanthus Smith (1839-1929, American)
Located in New York, NY
set when his father gave him a sketchbook when he was six or seven years old. At his father’s side
Category
1870s Hudson River School Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Oil
New England Landscape Painting by Stephen Maxfield Parrish
By Stephen Parrish
Located in Honolulu, HI
early age. For Maxfield's third birthday, Stephen gave him a large sketchbook with "Fred Parrish
Category
Early 20th Century American Arts and Crafts Antique Sketchbooks
Miss J Board - ca 1830 Album, Graphite Study Sketchbook
Located in Corsham, GB
We think that this sketchbook was done by the sister of Catherine Board, whose collection we
Category
19th Century Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Paper
Framed 1816 Sketchbook Spread of Chateau and Nature Scene
Located in Chapel Hill, NC
A 2-page drawing from an August 2, 1816 sketch book, Continental. Featuring a chateau overlooking a wood, field & rolling hills. Wooden frame. Not acid free mounting. Provenance: Est...
Category
1810s Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Wood, Paper
Embossed Leather 19th Century Sketchbook with Graphite Drawings and Watercolours
Located in Corsham, GB
An interesting 19th century album containing some very fine graphite drawings and watercolours as well as various prints. Please message for further images. With an embossed leather ...
Category
19th Century Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Paper
19th-Century English Oil Painting, Cottage By The Cove With Donkeys, Family
By Edward William Cooke
Located in Cheltenham, GB
under Captain Burton of the West-Indiaman, ‘Thetis’. During his time with Burton, he filled sketchbooks
Category
1870s Victorian Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Untitled (Woman with Upraised Arms)
By Adolf Arthur Dehn
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Pencil on paper
Unsigned
Provenance:
Estate of the artist
From a sketchbook
Category
1920s Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Graphite
Ink Painting
Located in Los Angeles, CA
black wood frame. Reminiscent of an Impressionist sketchbook, the piece is charged with a dreamlike
Category
Early 1900s French Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Paper
$1,875
A Pair of 19th Century Bird Watercolours in Giltwood Frames
Located in London, GB
sketchbook belonging to the Molyneux family of Isfield, executed on Whatman paper watermarked 1834 and
Category
Early 19th Century English Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Giltwood
Antique Regency Rosewood Gillows, Pair of Lamp Tables
By Gillows of Lancaster
London
Located in Bedfordshire, GB
a design featured in their estimate sketchbooks).
Category
1820s English Regency Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Rosewood
Original Pencil Sketch Study of a Nude, circa 1920s
Located in Nantucket, MA
sketchbook, with a superbly drawn tasteful nude on the front, and a less finished sketch on the reverse
Category
Early 20th Century American Art Deco Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Paper
19th C William IV 1836 Grand Tour Sketch Book Switzerland Germany Fr.Strickland
Located in Lowestoft, GB
later landscapes dated 1859 to the back of the sketchbook.
Pen, ink wash and watercolours. 37 pages
Category
Early 19th Century European Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Paper
William Drummond, Portrait Of Two Sisters, Watercolour
By William Drummond (artist)
Located in Cheltenham, GB
sister rests her right arm on a side table and holds a sketchbook on her lap. It appears to display a
Category
19th Century English School Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
19th Century 24 Watercolor and Gouache Portraits of Gentry, Dancers, Artist
Located in Lowestoft, GB
sketchbook. The pictures depict local gentry, dancers, musicians, artists and the like. A lot of the
Category
Late 19th Century English Late Victorian Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Paper
Early 19th C Sailors Naval Maritime Folk Art Pen
Ink Sketch
s Native Oceania
Located in Lowestoft, GB
appears to be a bone through his nose.
This to me looks like a page from a sailors sketchbook
Age
Category
Early 19th Century Oceanic Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Paper
English Painted Windsor Armchair by Gillows
Located in Greenwich, CT
sketchbook as well as an illustration in the recently published "Gillows of Lancaster
Two Centuries of
Category
19th Century English Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Ash, Sycamore
Study of the sleeping woman from "La méridienne"
By Jean François Millet
Located in Barbizon, FR
Study of the sleeping woman from “La meridienne”,
Black pencil drawing on paper (sketchbook
Category
19th Century Barbizon School Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Paper, Pencil
CAFE JOSTY
By George Grosz
Located in Portland, ME
Grosz, George. CAFE JOSTY. Pencil on sketchbook paper, 1912. Inscribed and dated, and with the
Category
Early 20th Century Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Pencil
Rare LIBERTY Silver Enamel Rose Bowl, Birmingham 1902
By Liberty
Co.
Located in Toronto, ON
Diameter: 8 inches. Height: 4 inches. Top diameter: 7 inches. Weight: 31 oz. Silver sketchbook is from the
Category
Early 20th Century English Antique Sketchbooks
Large Liberty Silver Enamel Rose Bowl, Birmingham, 1902
Located in Toronto, Ontario
sketchbook is from the Westminster Library archive. The design is most likely by Oliver Baker and Eleanor
Category
Early 20th Century English Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Sterling Silver, Enamel
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