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Country Manor, English School, 19th century
Located in Middletown, NY
Watercolor on watercolor paper, 9 3/4 x 11 3/4 inches (248 x 299 mm), the full sheet. With charming primo pensiero and unfinished detail in the form of a small child lying in his sto...
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Late 19th Century English School Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Hastings seascape, English School, 19th century
Located in Middletown, NY
Watercolor on watercolor paper, 5 1/8 x 8 1/4 inches (130 x 210 mm), the full sheet. Initialed "H.D.W.L." in watercolor in the left image area (in the area of the sky), and titled an...
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Late 19th Century English School Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Watercolor
Rock formations, Jurassic Coast, Dorset
Located in Middletown, NY
Watercolor on heavy gauge watercolor paper, 9 3/4 x 11 7/8 inches (246 x 294 mm), the full sheet. In very good condition with minor toning and some scattered light surface soiling. C...
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Late 19th Century English School Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
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 Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Board, Handmade Paper
S. Martin
s, Parkstone, Dorset.
Located in Middletown, NY
Watercolor on card stock, 4 3/4 x 11 1/2 inches (120 x 292 mm), the full sheet. Signed in blue watercolor on the lower right recto, titled in black ink on the verso. Scattered light ...
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Late 19th Century English School Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Watercolor, Board
Marshy inlet with fishing skiffs, Dorset
Located in Middletown, NY
Watercolor on artist board, 7 x 10 5/8 inches (177 x 270 mm), the full sheet. Signed and dated in watercolor in the lower right corner, recto, and signed and inscribed in ink and pen...
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Early 20th Century English School Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Board
From St. Martin
s, Parkstone
Located in Middletown, NY
A lovely coastal view of Dorset from the bluffs of what is now Parkstone Golf Club.
1895. Ink and wash on wove paper, 7 1/2 x 11 inches (190 x 280 mm), the full sheet. Signed in ink...
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Late 19th Century English School Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Woods and Country Manor
Located in Middletown, NY
A bucolic woods landscape with an ivy-covered country manor.
Watercolor and graphite on heavy gauge watercolor paper, 4 7/8 x 7 inches (125 x 178 mm), the full sheet. In very good c...
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Late 19th Century English School Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Graphite
Whilton
Located in Middletown, NY
Watercolor and pencil on watercolor paper, painted along the top portion of a sheet measuring 9 1/4 x 11 7/8 inches (235 x 302 mm), the full sheet. Titled in pencil in the lower left...
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Late 19th Century English School Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil
Wheat stooks, English countryside
Located in Middletown, NY
Watercolor and pencil on heavy gauge watercolor paper, 11 3/4 x 9 3/4 inches, (298 x 248 mm) the full sheet. In good condition with fresh, detailed brushwork and saturated pigments. ...
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Late 19th Century English School Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil
Welton House Garden
Located in Middletown, NY
An superb painting of the formal gardens from a 17th century manor house in Yorkshire.
Watercolor on board, 14 3/8 x 10 3/8 inches (365 x 264 mm), the full sheet. Signed and dated i...
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Late 19th Century English School Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
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Watercolor, Pencil, Board
Two views of the sea, Dorset
Located in Middletown, NY
Two watercolor compositions on one sheet of watercolor paper, 10 x 6 7/8 inches (255 x 175 mm), the full sheet. Signed illegibly and dated in pencil on the lower right corner of the ...
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Late 19th Century English School Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil, Ink
Seaside cottages
Located in Middletown, NY
Watercolor on watercolor paper, 4 7/8 x 6 3/4 inches (124 x 173 mm), the full sheet. Light toning and minor scattered foxing, colors remain fresh.
Sophia Beale was born in London i...
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Early 20th Century English School Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Saltmarshes, Parkstone
Located in Middletown, NY
Watercolor on board, 6 3/8 x 14 1/4 inches (163 x 362 mm), the full sheet. Signed and dated in watercolor in the lower margin, recto, and titled in pencil with various extensive nota...
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Early 20th Century English School Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Patchwork farms, Cornish coast
Located in Middletown, NY
Watercolor on heavy gauge watercolor paper, 9 3/8 x 11 1/8 inches (238 x 283 mm), the full sheet. In very good condition with scattered small pin-point spots of discoloration on the ...
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Late 19th Century English School Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Padbury Brook, Oxfordshire
Located in Middletown, NY
Watercolor and pencil on J Whatman 1884 watermarked cream wove paper, 12 x 9 1/4 inches (305 x 235 mm), the full sheet. Scattered toning and one 2-inch horizontal edge tear in the lo...
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Late 19th Century English School Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
The Mount Willow
Located in Middletown, NY
Watercolor and gouache on heavy gauge watercolor paper, 9 1/2 x 15 1/8 inches (242 x 385 mm), the full sheet. Titled in pencil on the verso. Scattered edge wear, and small losses at ...
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Mid-19th Century English School Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Map of Norway and Sweden
Located in Middletown, NY
Watercolor and ink on heavy gauge watercolor paper, 12 x 9 1/4 inches (305 x 235 mm), the full sheet. In very good condition with some minor age tone and scattered light areas of dis...
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Late 19th Century English School Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Jurassic Coast, Dorset
Located in Middletown, NY
Watercolor and graphite on watercolor paper, 5 3/4 x 11 3/8 inches (147 x 290 mm), the full sheet. On the verso is an unfinished sketch in graphite which is titled "Gardens, 3 Kent T...
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Mid-19th Century English School Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Jurassic Coast, Dorset
Located in Middletown, NY
Watercolor on heavy gauge watercolor, 4 1/8 x 11 3/4 (105 x 299 mm), the full sheet. In good condition with scattered minor surface soiling, and light scattered foxing. Colors slight...
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Mid-19th Century English School Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Interior still life, Beaumont
Located in Middletown, NY
Watercolor on heavy gauge watercolor paper, 14 x 9 3/4 inches (352 x 248 mm), the full sheet. Titled in pencil in the lower left margin. With a garden landscape in watercolor on the ...
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Late 19th Century English School Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Grange lane to the sea
Located in Middletown, NY
Watercolor on heavy gauge watercolor paper, 9 x 12 inches (228 x 306 mm), the full sheet. Titled illegibly and dated in pencil in the lower right margin, recto. In good condition wit...
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Early 20th Century English School Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Gardens, Exeter
Located in Middletown, NY
Watercolor with graphite on heavy gauge watercolor paper, 9 3/4 x 7 1/4 inches (249 x 185 mm), the full sheet. Titled and dated August 27, 1896 in pencil in the lower right margin. I...
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Late 19th Century English School Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Board, Graphite
Fields, Cowley, Oxford
Located in Middletown, NY
Watercolor on artists board with white heightening through abrasion with the the brush stick, 6 3/4 x 14 1/4 (172 x 362 mm), the full sheet. Signed and dated in watercolor in the low...
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Early 20th Century English School Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Cottages on the Yorkshire Dales
Located in Middletown, NY
Watercolor with white heightening through abrasion with the brush stick on watercolor paper, 7 x 9 7/8 inches (177 x 248 mm), the full sheet. In good condition with scattered light f...
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Mid-19th Century English School Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Cottage lane
Located in Middletown, NY
Watercolor and graphite on heavy gauge watercolor paper, 5 3/8 x 8 7/8 inches (132 x 221 mm), the full sheet. Extensive, fresh brushwork with nice primo pensiero and the unfinished f...
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Mid-19th Century English School Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Coastline, Dorset / A plein air watercolor sketch of row boats beached along Eng
Located in Middletown, NY
Watercolor and graphite on heavy gauge watercolor paper, 6 x 9 1/2 inches (152 x 241 mm), the full sheet. Scattered light foxing, otherwise in good condition.
Sophia Beale was born...
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Mid-19th Century English School Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Cliffs, Dorset
Located in Middletown, NY
Watercolor on watercolor paper, 9 3/4 x 12 1/4 inches (248 x 311 mm), the full sheet. Scattered light toning, especially at the sheet edges. Minor, light area of clustered brown spot...
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Mid-19th Century English School Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
The Capitol, Timgad, Algeria
Located in Middletown, NY
A luminous landscape of the Roman ruins at Timgad, with the Aurès mountains aglow in the background.
Watercolor on artist board, 9 7/8 x 7 inches (252 x 178 mm), the full sheet. Tit...
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Mid-19th Century English School Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Handmade Paper
Ravensworth Castle – North Yorkshire
Located in Middletown, NY
Graphite and watercolor on grayish-tan wove paper, 10 3/4 x 8 3/8 inches (272 x 212 mm) the full sheet. An unfinished study in good condition.
On the mat-back is a notation that the...
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Mid-19th Century English School Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Handmade Paper, Graphite
A barn landscape with a wagon – English School, late 19th century
Located in Middletown, NY
Graphite and watercolor on light weight salmon-colored wove paper, 4 1/4 x 7 5/8 inches (109 x 194 mm), the full sheet. An unfinished study in good condition.
On the mat-back is a n...
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Mid-19th Century English School Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Handmade Paper, Laid Paper
Farm landscape with a man in a bowler hat
Located in Middletown, NY
Graphite and watercolor on light weight salmon-colored wove paper, 4 1/4 x 7 5/8 inches (109 x 194 mm), the full sheet. An unfinished study in good condition.
On the mat-back is a n...
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Mid-19th Century English School Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Handmade Paper, Graphite
A country cottage
Located in Middletown, NY
Graphite and watercolor on grayish-tan wove paper, 7 5/8 x 6 7/8 inches (194 x 175 mm), the full sheet. An unfinished study in good condition.
On the mat-back is a notation that the...
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Mid-19th Century English School Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Handmade Paper, Graphite
Saint Patrick
s Cathedral from Midtown Manhattan
Located in Middletown, NY
Graphite with watercolor and black crayon on cream wove paper mounted to board, 12 1/2 x 10 1/2 inches (318 x 267 mm), full margins. Signed in pencil on the mount. In excellent condi...
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Early 20th Century American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Crayon, Watercolor, Graphite
The Herbalist; A portrait of John Gerard
By William Rogers (b.1545)
Located in Middletown, NY
Graphite on cream wove paper, laid down to a laid paper matrix with an E & J 1802 watermark, titled in ink and pencil in the margin, 21 1/8 x 15 inches (537 x 381 mm), the full sheet...
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Mid-19th Century English School Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Handmade Paper, Laid Paper, Graphite
Portrait of Franz Grillparzer
Located in Middletown, NY
Signed bottom left by H. Reisner.
Charcoal with white heightening on grayish brown wove paper, 22 3/8 x 15 1/2 inches, the full sheet. Signed in black crayon in the lower left margin...
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Early 20th Century Italian School Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Crayon
Studies of sailors rowing a boat, and a man seated - European School, 19th C
Located in Middletown, NY
Graphite on grayish brown laid paper, 4 1/2 x 8 5/8 inches (107 x 217 mm), the full sheet. In good condition with light toning and a small loss at the lower left corner. There are ad...
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Early 19th Century Italian School Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Crayon, Laid Paper
Studio di piede (study of foot) – Florentine School 18th century
Located in Middletown, NY
Red chalk on cream laid paper, 6 3/8 x 7 inches (160 x 176 mm), the full sheet. In very good condition with minor toning and some modern notations in pencil on the verso, as well as ...
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Early 18th Century Italian School Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Crayon, Laid Paper
Studio di mano (study of hand) – Florentine School 18th century
Located in Middletown, NY
Red chalk on cream laid paper, 7 1/4 x 9 3/8 inches (182 x 236 mm), the full sheet. In very good condition with minor toning and two small nicks in the top sheet edge. Some modern no...
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Early 18th Century Italian School Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Crayon, Laid Paper
Studio di volto (Study of a boy
s face, 2 views) Florentine School 18th century
Located in Middletown, NY
An 18th century Florentine study of a head, circa 1700
Red crayon on light-weight laid paper with a partial Pro Patria watermark with Hollandia and a rampant lion, 5 5/8 x 7 1/2 inc...
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Early 18th Century Italian School Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Laid Paper, Crayon
Studies of arms in draped sleeves
Located in Middletown, NY
Charcoal and graphite on grayish laid paper, 10 1/2 x 7 3/4 inches (265 x 195 mm), the full sheet. Scattered light, minor and unobtrusive foxing, several non-archival cellophane tape...
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Mid-18th Century Italian School Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Handmade Paper, Laid Paper, Graphite, Charcoal
Ink and wash cartouche with a mirror, doves, and a drum
Located in Middletown, NY
A lovely and curious composition, circa 1780.
Ink and wash on tissue thin Japon paper, adhered to period cream laid paper, 5 1/4 x 3 3/8 inches (132 x 84 mm), the full sheet. With ...
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Late 18th Century French School Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Handmade Paper, Watercolor
Portrait of Fingal / Finn MacCool - A moving portrait of an Irish literary hero
Located in Middletown, NY
Black chalk and graphite on light weight cream wove paper, 16 1/8 x 11 1/4 inches, (410 x 286 mm), the full sheet. Signed, titled, and dated in sepia ink in the lower-center sheet area. With horizontal folds approximately 1-inch from the sheet edge at each of the four sheets. The drawing appears to have been folded at the sheet edges to fit into a frame.
Finn mac Cumail (or mac Umaill), often anglicized Finn McCool or MacCool, is a hero in Irish mythology, as well as in later Scottish and Manx folklore. He is the leader of the Fianna bands of young roving hunter-warriors, as well as being a seer and poet. He is said to have a magic thumb that bestows him with great wisdom. He is often depicted hunting with his hounds Bran and Sceólang, and fighting with his spear and sword. Fionn MacCumhail was transformed into the character "Fingal" in James Macpherson's poem cycle Ossian (1760), which Macpherson claimed was translated out of discovered Ossianic poetry written in the Scottish Gaelic language.
Fionn MacCumhail features heavily in modern Irish literature. Most notably he makes several appearances in James Joyce's Finnegans Wake...
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Early 19th Century French School Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Handmade Paper, Chalk, Graphite
A Grand Tour study of ruins in the Roman Forum - English School, early 19th C.
Located in Middletown, NY
Ink and wash in black ink with pen in black ink on watermarked C & I Honig cream laid paper, 14 7/8 x 12 1/4 inches (378 x 311 mm), the full sheet. In very good condition with some m...
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Early 19th Century French School Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Handmade Paper, Ink
Miniature portrait of a British officer by Henry O
Shea
Located in Middletown, NY
Limerick: Henry O'Shea, c1800.
Dual process photogravure on cardstock, 4 x 2 1/2 inches (102 x 64 mm), the full sheet.
Framed handsomely in the original handmade wood frame with a ...
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Early 19th Century French School Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gold
A tailor fitting exotic and historical costumes.
By George Cruikshank
Located in Middletown, NY
A charming scene of men and women in various dress, perhaps a theater company costume fitting.
English School, 19th century (circle of Cruikshank), circa 1860.
Watercolor and pencil...
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Mid-19th Century English School Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Handmade Paper, Pencil
Kutschen (carriages); Group of four designs for hansom cabs.
By Alfred Juergens
Located in Middletown, NY
Four pencil drawings, each with hand coloring in watercolor, each 6 3/4 x 10 inches (sheet) (172 x 254 mm), full margins. Each with inscriptions and notations by the artist in the up...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Handmade Paper, Watercolor, Pencil
A pair of portraits in profile (2 works) – English School, 18th century
Located in Middletown, NY
Red crayon on cream laid paper, 3 3/4 x 4 inches (95 x 102 mm) ; 3 3/4 x 3 1/8 inches (95 x 80 mm). Each with scattered early repairs done with non-archival tape on the verso; the sm...
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Late 18th Century English School Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Crayon, Laid Paper
Three Rajput noblemen on horseback – Rajasthani School, 19th century
Located in Middletown, NY
Ink and gouache with gold heightening on fibrous, brown laid paper, with a Jaipur Court Fee tax stamp in black ink on the recto, as well as the Jaipur City Council blindstamp, 13 5/8...
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19th Century Rajput Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gold
A woman in jewels and a gossamer sari – Rajasthani School, 19th century
Located in Middletown, NY
A woman in jewels and a gossamer sari churns butter for ghee.
Ink and gouache with gold heightening on fibrous, brown laid paper, with a Jaipur Court Fee tax stamp in purple ink on ...
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19th Century Rajput Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gold
A Rajput prince with a sword, dagger, lotus – Rajasthani School, 19th century
Located in Middletown, NY
Ink and gouache with gold heightening on fibrous, brown laid paper, with a Jaipur Court Fee tax stamp in purple ink on the recto, 12 1/2 x 9 inches (318 x 230 mm). Toning, handling c...
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19th Century Rajput Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gold
Turbaned man seated, smoking a hookah – Rajasthani School, 19th century
Located in Middletown, NY
Ink and gouache with yellow heightening on fibrous, brown laid paper, with a Jaipur Court Fee tax stamp in purple ink on the recto, and the Jaipur State Council Stamp dated June 5 18...
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19th Century Rajput Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gold
Raja Mahan Singh Mirpuri – Rajasthani School, 19th century
Located in Middletown, NY
Ink and gouache with yellow heightening on fibrous, brown laid paper with a Jaipur Court Fee tax stamp in blue ink, 13 1/2 x 8 3/4 inches (343 x 222 mm). Toning, handling creases and...
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19th Century Rajput Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gold
Chesterfield Sent to Coventry, or A Display of Military Education
Located in Middletown, NY
A wonderful 1824 preparatory drawing for a published work satirizing the famously ill-mannered 10th Hussars.
1842. Pen and ink with watercolor on watermarked J Whatman 1824 paper, 9...
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Mid-19th Century English School Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Handmade Paper, Ink, Watercolor, Pen
Geometric Palace Interior - Mughal School, 20th Century
Located in Middletown, NY
A fascinating orientalist art deco composition.
Pen and brownish brown ink with gouache on cream wove paper, 9 5/8 x 7 1/2 inches (245 x 190 mm), the full sheet. In good condition w...
Category
Early 20th Century Rajput Interior Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, India Ink, Gouache, Handmade Paper
Still life with lantern - English School, 19th Century
Located in Middletown, NY
A luminous 1850 still life study of a tin lantern.
Black chalk with white heightening on brownish-gray, fibrous, handmade buff wove paper, 10 1/2 x 6 3/4 inches (262 x 172 mm), the ...
Category
Mid-19th Century English School Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk, Handmade Paper, Pencil
Neoclassical composition of a sculptor kneeling before his statue of the Madonna
Located in Middletown, NY
An allegory of loyalty, with the subject's dog pictured seated, holding his master's chisel in his mouth; fidelity personified.
Italian School, 18th century
Ink wash in gray and bl...
Category
Mid-18th Century Italian School Figurative Paintings
Materials
Laid Paper, Ink, Watercolor
The Temple of Concordia, Agrigento - English School drawing, 19th Century
Located in Middletown, NY
A lovely grand tour image of the Doric architectural masterpiece dedicated to Castor and Pollux.
Dated 1863.
Watercolor and graphite on lightweight card stock, 10 x 13 3/4 inches (2...
Category
Mid-19th Century English School Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Cardboard, Graphite
Chaîne de Aravais (Mountains in the Alps) - French School, drawing, circa 1850
Located in Middletown, NY
A beautiful drawing of the Aravis mountain chain in the Alps, including Mont Blanc, with all of the peaks identified by hand.
Circa 1850
Graphite with white heightening on light card...
Category
Mid-19th Century French School Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Cardboard, Color Pencil, Graphite
Study of horse and ox bones
By Salvator Rosa
Located in Middletown, NY
Graphite, ink wash and watercolor on handmade laid paper with a large, indistinguishable ovoid watermark with a bunch of grapes, 8 7/16 x 12 5/8 inches (225 x 320 mm), signed in brown ink in the lower left. With the Henry Scipio Reitlinger oval stamp in brown ink on the verso (Lugt 2274a).
The condition of the image and paper is consistent with age, there is minor toning on the recto and some attenuation of the green pigment. The drawing is laid down to an 18th century laid paper support and has a small pencil notation in the lower right corner (modern), and scattered notations in pencil on the verso of the support (also modern, perhaps auction/accession notes). On the paper support is an ink drawing in red and black of what appears to be the floor plan for the wing of a large building. The drawing is top-up, adhered facing the verso of the drawing. The architectural drawing on the support is visible through to the recto of the composition when the sheets are viewed through raking light. There is a small area of stipple point spotting in brown ink on the verso of the support. Examination under black light shows no indication of repairs or additions, expert or otherwise.
Provenance:
Henry Scipio Reitlinger was born in either 1882 or 1885, attended Kings College...
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Mid-17th Century Old Masters Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Handmade Paper, Laid Paper, Graphite
