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Declaration of Independence by John Trumbull First Edition Engraving, circa 1823
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
travel the country, and make a trip to Paris, with his sketchbook and canvas in order to capture the
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1820s Antique Sketchbooks

Remigius van Haanen (Circle), Twilight Landscape With River Crossing
Located in Cheltenham, GB
sketchbook. It also opened the door to exhibition opportunities and a variety of interested buyers. In 1842
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1850s Dutch School Antique Sketchbooks

Materials

Wood Panel, Oil

Robert Richard Scanlan, Portrait Of A Gentleman On A Bay Hunter
Located in Cheltenham, GB
later engraved and published as ‘Barney Bryan’s Sketchbooks’. A critic praised his “fine flowing style
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1840s Victorian Antique Sketchbooks

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Canvas, Oil

Antique Regency Flame Mahogany Dining Table Manner of Gillows, 19th Century
Located in London, GB
sliding holder for bottles. The Davenport, a lady’s desk, was featured in the sketchbooks from 1816
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1820s English Regency Antique Sketchbooks

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Mahogany

Antique Regency Mahogany Gillows Style Dining Table, circa 1820
Located in London, GB
sliding holder for bottles. The Davenport, a lady’s desk, was featured in the sketchbooks from 1816
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1820s English Antique Sketchbooks

Antique Regency Mahogany Dining Table Manner of Gillows, circa 1820
Located in London, GB
sliding holder for bottles. The Davenport, a lady’s desk, was featured in the sketchbooks from 1816
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1820s British Antique Sketchbooks

Antique Early Victorian Extending Dining Table by Gillows 19th C
By Gillows of Lancaster London
Located in London, GB
Davenport, a lady’s desk, was featured in the sketchbooks from 1816. Gillows made medicine chests, powdering
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1840s English Victorian Antique Sketchbooks

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Mahogany

Antique Metamorphic Victorian Mahogany Dining Table 12 Chairs 19th C
Located in London, GB
sketchbooks from 1816. Gillows made medicine chests, powdering closets, linen presses, clothes horses
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1830s English Regency Antique Sketchbooks

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Mahogany

Joachim Ferdinand Richardt, River Baptism
By Joachim Ferdinand Richardt
Located in Cheltenham, GB
undertake his next trip, clutching his sketchbook in hand. In 1859, before returning to Europe, he
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1860s Hudson River School Antique Sketchbooks

Materials

Canvas, Oil

William John Wainwright RWS RBA, An Elderly Capuchin With Apron
Located in Cheltenham, GB
creative inspiration and it’s likely he filled his sketchbooks with impromptu studies of hungry patrons
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Early 1900s English School Antique Sketchbooks

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

Antique Regency Mahogany Dining Table, circa 1820
Located in London, GB
sketchbooks from 1816. Gillows made medicine chests, powdering closets, linen presses, clothes horses
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Early 19th Century English Antique Sketchbooks

Antique Regency Dining Table Manner of Gillows 19th Century and 10 Chairs
Located in London, GB
Davenport, a lady’s desk, was featured in the sketchbooks from 1816. Gillows made medicine chests, powdering
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1820s English Regency Antique Sketchbooks

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Mahogany

Marseille - Coastal Landscape Impressionist Watercolor - Johan Barthold Jongkind
By Johan Barthold Jongkind
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
to his sketchbooks until they were removed and signed by the artist. Generous donations from Camondo
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1870s Impressionist Antique Sketchbooks

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

"Tree in a Landscape, " etching by Claude Gellee (Le Lorrain)
By Claude Lorrain
Located in Milwaukee, WI
saints, even though his abundant drawings and sketchbooks prove that he was more interested in
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Mid-17th Century Old Masters Antique Sketchbooks

Materials

Etching

Antique Pair of Miniature Watercolors by Samuel Prout, Early 19th Century
Located in London, GB
and was buried at West Norwood Cemetery. A large quantity of his original sketchbooks, lithographs
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1820s British Antique Sketchbooks

Antique Watercolor Venice by Samuel Prout, Early 19th Century
Located in London, GB
Norwood Cemetery. A large quantity of his original sketchbooks, lithographs, account books, letters
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1820s British Antique Sketchbooks

Antique Early Victorian Extending Dining Table by Gillows 19th C 8 Chairs
By Gillows of Lancaster London
Located in London, GB
sketchbooks from 1816. Gillows made medicine chests, powdering closets, linen presses, clothes horses
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1840s English Victorian Antique Sketchbooks

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Damask, Mahogany

Antique 12ft Imperial Style Extending Dining Table 19th Century
Located in London, GB
for bottles. The Davenport, a lady’s desk, was featured in the sketchbooks from 1816. Gillows made
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1810s English George III Antique Sketchbooks

Materials

Brass

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
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Early 20th Century Modern Antique Sketchbooks

Materials

Paper, Woodcut

Antique 12ft Imperial Style Dining Table 19th &12 Chairs 20th Century
Located in London, GB
sketchbooks from 1816. Gillows made medicine chests, powdering closets, linen presses, clothes horses
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1810s English George III Antique Sketchbooks

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Brass

Antique 12ft Imperial Style Extending Dining Table 19th 12 Chairs 20th Century
Located in London, GB
Davenport, a lady’s desk, was featured in the sketchbooks from 1816. Gillows made medicine chests, powdering
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1810s English George III Antique Sketchbooks

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Brass

Double-Sided 1709 Drawing After Dürer – Rhinoceros Hippopotamus
Located in Stockholm, SE
, with its descriptive note, almost functions like a page from an 18th-century naturalist’s sketchbook
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Early 1700s Old Masters Antique Sketchbooks

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Paper, Ink

Antique 11ft Gillows Style William IV Extending Dining Table C1835 19th Century
Located in London, GB
sketchbooks from 1816. Gillows made medicine chests, powdering closets, linen presses, clothes horses
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1830s English William IV Antique Sketchbooks

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Mahogany

Calcutta India 1841 Historically Rich Watercolour First Opium Wars Empire Rare
Located in Norfolk, GB
holds documents that record his career together with a sketchbook of paintings made on a future voyage
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19th Century Other Art Style Antique Sketchbooks

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Paper, Watercolor

A Pair of Aesthetic Movement Ebonised Wood Cabinets by Gillow
Located in Sheffield, MA
holder for bottles. The Davenport, a lady’s desk, was featured in the sketchbooks from 1816. Gillows made
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19th Century English Antique Sketchbooks

Portrait of Jean Claude Pellegrini (1787-1854)
Located in Paris, IDF
life annuities. From this first stage are dated two sketchbooks in black chalk and red chalk of
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Early 19th Century French School Antique Sketchbooks

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Oil

Roses Blanches - Impressionist Oil, Still Life White Flowers, Circle of E Manet
By Édouard Manet
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
artillery, and who spent every spare moment of his leisure time filling the pages of a sketchbook, passed
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1870s Impressionist Antique Sketchbooks

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Theodore Robinson Sketchbook, American Impressionism, French Drawings
By Theodore Robinson
Located in New York, NY
Theodore Robinson (1852 – 1896) Sketchbook, 1888 Pencil and ink on paper (approximately 25 drawings
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1880s American Impressionist Antique Sketchbooks

Materials

Paper, Ink, Pencil

A Charming 1920s Sketchbook Drawing of a Cat, by Florida Artist George Snow Hill
Located in Chicago, IL
A Charming 1920s Sketchbook Drawing of a Cat, by Florida WPA Era Artist, George Snow Hill. Colored
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1920s Antique Sketchbooks

Materials

Color Pencil, Graphite, Paper

Goat
By Orovida Pissarro
Located in London, GB
sketchbook that Orovida who was the first granddaughter of Camille Pissarro, worked on in 1917
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Early 20th Century Modern Antique Sketchbooks

Materials

Charcoal

Travelling Circus, Marseilles
Located in Plano, TX
Watercolor on paper from a sketchbook. 5 1/4 x 8 (image and sheet). Signed 'J Bernhard', dated 6
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Early 20th Century Modern Antique Sketchbooks

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Watercolor

18th Century Vellum Drawing Book
Located in Beuzevillette, FR
Sketchbook, gathering a set of 87 drawings made in Italy at the end of the 18th century. The
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1780s Italian Antique Sketchbooks

Materials

Paper, Parchment Paper

Landscapes with Trees and River - Pencil Drawing by Unknown French Master - 1919
Located in Roma, IT
sketchbook, given its fringed margin. The drawing of the recto of the paper represents a river bank with
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1910s Modern Antique Sketchbooks

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Pencil

Follower of John Singer Sargent Seven Views of Venice
Located in London, GB
. With gold edges to all three sides, and made from stiff card this was an expensive sketchbook. No
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Late 19th Century Impressionist Antique Sketchbooks

Materials

Ink, Pen, Pencil

A Country Road
By Douglas Ion Smart, R.E.
Located in Plano, TX
5 3/16 x 6 11/16. Drawn on watermarked laid paper from a sketchbook. Provenance: a collection of
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Early 20th Century Modern Antique Sketchbooks

Materials

Graphite

Figural Drawing by Augustus John
By Augustus John
Located in Hudson, NY
a sketchbook. The image is quick and confident with an economy of line found in his best works on
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Early 20th Century English Antique Sketchbooks

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Paper

Henri De Toulouse Lautrec pencil Drawings Catalogued
By Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Located in Dallas, TX
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (French, 1864-1901) two sided sketchbook page catalogued in The Catalogue
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1880s French Beaux Arts Antique Sketchbooks

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Paper

Standing Male Nude
By Frank Duveneck
Located in Fairlawn, OH
the sketchbook are in the collections of the Munson Williams Proctor Institute in Utica, New York and
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1890s Antique Sketchbooks

Materials

Graphite

Forest Idyll Allegory drawing
By Francis Luis Mora
Located in New York, NY
print more strongly or his re-working elements for printing purposes. Some of our sketchbooks to which
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Early 20th Century American Realist Antique Sketchbooks

Materials

Archival Paper, Graphite

Old oil on canvas "an Italian landscape" circle of Pierre Henri De Valenciennes
Located in Gavere, BE
with many sketchbooks to settle in Paris where the exhibition will take place. most of his career. He
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1770s French School Antique Sketchbooks

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Gold Leaf

"Race Around Staten Island"
By Marshall Johnson Jr.
Located in Southampton, NY
. At the time of his death in 1921 only two of his signed sketchbooks survived. Biography courtesy of
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1870s Academic Antique Sketchbooks

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Canvas, Oil

Portrait of a Gentleman (by leader of "Southern Art Renaissance")
By Ellsworth Woodward
Located in New Orleans, LA
is very likely from a sketchbook. The paper is not in pristine form - you can see in the photos the
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Early 1900s Romantic Antique Sketchbooks

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Ink

Lady with Umbrella (by leader of "Southern Art Renaissance")
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
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1890s Romantic Antique Sketchbooks

Materials

Ink

Portrait of a Lady (by leader of "Southern Art Renaissance") - 20th Century
By Ellsworth Woodward
Located in New Orleans, LA
apparently from a sketchbook, and is on paper mounted on cardboard. You can either trim the edges and frame
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Early 1900s Romantic Antique Sketchbooks

Materials

Watercolor

Trees on the Hill - Charcoal by E.-L. Minet - Early 1900
By Emile-Louis Minet
Located in Roma, IT
Minet. The state of preservation is excellent. The piece of paper comes from a sketchbook, given that it
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Early 1900s Naturalistic Antique Sketchbooks

Materials

Charcoal, Pencil

Basle
By J.M.W. Turner
Located in Plano, TX
old Mittlere Brücke (Middle Bridge) to the twin spires of the cathedral, in the Fonthill sketchbook
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Early 1800s Romantic Antique Sketchbooks

Materials

Mezzotint, Etching

Landscape - 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
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1910s Naturalistic Antique Sketchbooks

Materials

Charcoal, Pencil

River Bank - Pencil and Charcoal Drawing by Emile-Louis Minet - 1907
By Emile-Louis Minet
Located in Roma, IT
. The piece of paper comes from a sketchbook, as it can be understood from the fringes on the left
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Early 1900s Naturalistic Antique Sketchbooks

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Charcoal, Pencil

Countryside with Trees and River - Charcoal by E.-L. Minet - Early 1900
By Emile-Louis Minet
Located in Roma, IT
sketchbook, and it presents some fringes on the higher margin. Louis Minet was an important artist from
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Early 1900s Naturalistic Antique Sketchbooks

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Charcoal, Pencil

Donkey, Sheep, and Goats
By Nicolaes Berchem
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
aspired to, in order to soak up the romanticism of the country, bringing home sketchbooks full of drawings
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1650s Old Masters Antique Sketchbooks

Materials

Copper

The Woman and the Tambourine.
By J.M.W. Turner
Located in Plano, TX
sketchbook of 1805 (Tate D05577, D05579; Turner Bequest XC 55, 56). There is a loose correspondence between
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Early 1800s Romantic Antique Sketchbooks

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Mezzotint, Etching

Village on the River - Pencil, Charcoal and Watercolor by E.-L. Minet-Early 1900
By Emile-Louis Minet
Located in Roma, IT
sketchbook, because it presents some fringes on the upper margin. On the right of the back, there is a small
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Early 1900s Naturalistic Antique Sketchbooks

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Charcoal, Pencil, Watercolor

Arabs in a Hammam
By Theodore Frère
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
a full sketchbook and laden down with oriental objets d'art. Frère exhibited at the Paris Salon
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19th Century Impressionist Antique Sketchbooks

Materials

Oil, Panel

Study of Horses and Knights - Original Pencil Drawing by A. Jouclard
By Adrienne Jouclard
Located in Roma, IT
serration because the paper was torn from a sketchbook. In the drawing, in pencil, there are indications on
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Early 20th Century Antique Sketchbooks

Materials

Pencil

Henri Matisse "Dancer Lying (Danseuse Etendue), c. 1927
By Henri Matisse
Located in Hinsdale, IL
sketchbook. Alternately, his lithographs were on a larger scale and made grander statements. These
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1920s Fauvist Antique Sketchbooks

Materials

Lithograph

Charles Clair, Sheep Feeding In A Barn
By Charles Clair
Located in Cheltenham, GB
sketchbook as he studied the various livestock. Tucked alongside the sheepfold to observe movement and form
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1910s Impressionist Antique Sketchbooks

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Canvas, Oil

Antique 12 Coloured Prints Parisian Women s Fashion 1868
Located in London, GB
sketchbooks, c.1832-5, bears a label inside the front cover, ‘S. & J. Fuller, Temple of Fancy, 34 Rathbone
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19th Century French Antique Sketchbooks

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Antique Sketchbooks For Sale on 1stDibs

On 1stDibs, there are several options of antique sketchbooks available for sale. Browse a selection of Impressionist versions of these works for sale today — there are 2 Impressionist examples available. These items have been produced for many years, with earlier versions available from the 18th Century and newer variations made as recently as the 20th Century. You can search the antique sketchbooks that we have for sale on 1stDibs by color — popular works were created in bold and neutral palettes with elements of beige, gray, orange and purple. These artworks have been a part of the life’s work for many artists, but the versions made by Artur Markowicz, Edgar Degas, Nicholas André Monsiaux and Theodore Robinson are consistently popular. The range of these distinct pieces — often created in pencil, paper and ink — can elevate any room of your home.

How Much are Antique Sketchbooks?

Prices for art of this kind can differ depending upon size, time period and other attributes — antique sketchbooks in our inventory begin at $250 and can go as high as $58,000, while the average can fetch as much as $5,500.