River Diorama
Unique Diorama Depicting a North-American River Scene with Natives and Settlers
Located in Amsterdam, NL
Unique diorama depicting a North American river-scene
United States of America, early 20th
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Early 20th Century American Native American Objects
Materials
Other
H 14.18 in W 26.97 in D 13.39 in
American Diorama, Follower Gerrit Schouten, Carib Indigenous Village
Located in Amsterdam, NL
Streken. In the June 2007 catalogue, item 17, shows a diorama of an Indian camp on the river bank by
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Antique 19th Century Surinamer Native American Objects
Materials
Clay, Twig, Wood, Paper, Feathers
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H 10.75 in W 17.13 in D 5.12 in
Rare Anthropological Diorama of Carib Indigenous by Hendrik Schouten
Located in Amsterdam, NL
Hendrik Samuel Schouten (1785-1840)
A unique diorama depicting Carib Indigenous at the river
Category
Antique Early 18th Century Models and Miniatures
Materials
Twig, Wood, Giltwood, Paint, Paper
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H 20.08 in W 27.37 in D 7.88 in
An exceptional straw work diorama of an owl and kingfisher - Leverian Museum
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
An exceptional straw work diorama of an owl and kingfisher, almost certainly by “Miss Gregg(e)” and
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Antique 1770s English Decorative Art
Materials
Straw
H 18 in W 22.5 in D 4 in
Hand Crafted Cork Work Diorama with English Castle made Mid 19th Century
Located in Katonah, NY
This mid 19th century cork work shows a romantic scene of an ancient castle in a charming diorama
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Antique Mid-19th Century English Romantic Decorative Art
Materials
Cork
Pair Hand Crafted Corkwork Dioramas with Scenes of English Castles Circa 1840
Located in Katonah, NY
cork demonstrating the artist's excellent craftsmanship.
Each diorama features a romantic scene of a
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Antique Mid-19th Century English Romantic Decorative Art
Materials
Cork
H 12.75 in W 14.25 in D 1.5 in
Hand-Crafted Corkwork Showing a Romantic View of an English Castle
Located in Katonah, NY
This hand crafted cork work shows a romantic scene of an ancient castle in a charming diorama. The
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Antique Mid-19th Century English Romantic Decorative Art
Materials
Cork
Elgin Cathedral Ruins - Scottish 19thC art architectural landscape oil painting
By David Roberts
Located in London, GB
Alexander II outside the burgh of Elgin and close to the River Lossie. The ruins are depicted bathed in soft
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1840s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Fly-Over State, Gouache, watercolor and pencil 1946 Rand-McNally World Atlas Map
By Carol Wax
Located in New York, NY
emblems of the country rather than its rivers and cities. Related animal life populate other land masses
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2010s Contemporary Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache, Pencil
Midnight Sun, Gouache and pencil on 1946 Rand-McNally World Atlas Map, 2020
By Carol Wax
Located in New York, NY
emblems of the country rather than its rivers and cities. Related animal life populate other land masses
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2010s Contemporary Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache, Pencil
Chesapeake-a-boo, Gouache & Graphite Pencil on 1946 Rand-McNally World Atlas Map
By Carol Wax
Located in New York, NY
emblems of the country rather than its rivers and cities. Related animal life populate other land masses
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2010s Contemporary Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache, Pencil
Dart Bored, Gouache & Graphite Pencil on 1946 Rand-McNally World Atlas Map, 2020
By Carol Wax
Located in New York, NY
emblems of the country rather than its rivers and cities. Related animal life populate other land masses
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2010s Contemporary Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache, Pencil, Graphite
Unbearable, Gouache & Graphite Pencil on 1946 Rand-McNally World Atlas Map, 2020
By Carol Wax
Located in New York, NY
emblems of the country rather than its rivers and cities. Related animal life populate other land masses
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Gouache, Pencil, Graphite
Mastodon
By Lori Nix and Kathleen Gerber
Located in New York, NY
dioramas of rooms in imaginary natural history museums, and then photograph them in black and white. The
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Early 2000s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
T-Rex
By Lori Nix and Kathleen Gerber
Located in New York, NY
dioramas of rooms in imaginary natural history museums, and then photograph them in black and white. The
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Lions & Tigers
By Lori Nix and Kathleen Gerber
Located in New York, NY
dioramas of rooms in imaginary natural history museums, and then photograph them in black and white. The
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Dodo Birds
By Lori Nix and Kathleen Gerber
Located in New York, NY
dioramas of rooms in imaginary natural history museums, and then photograph them in black and white. The
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Bird Room
By Lori Nix and Kathleen Gerber
Located in New York, NY
dioramas of rooms in imaginary natural history museums, and then photograph them in black and white. The
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Rift
By Lori Nix and Kathleen Gerber
Located in New York, NY
dioramas in their Brooklyn studio, which are then carefully lighted and photographed. The obsessive process
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Overpass
By Lori Nix and Kathleen Gerber
Located in New York, NY
dioramas in their Brooklyn studio, which are then carefully lighted and photographed. The obsessive process
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Dawn
By Lori Nix and Kathleen Gerber
Located in New York, NY
dioramas in their Brooklyn studio, which are then carefully lighted and photographed. The obsessive process
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Sirens
By Lori Nix and Kathleen Gerber
Located in New York, NY
dioramas in their Brooklyn studio, which are then carefully lighted and photographed. The obsessive process
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Sentinel
By Lori Nix and Kathleen Gerber
Located in New York, NY
dioramas in their Brooklyn studio, which are then carefully lighted and photographed. The obsessive process
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2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Arch
By Lori Nix and Kathleen Gerber
Located in New York, NY
dioramas in their Brooklyn studio, which are then carefully lighted and photographed. The obsessive process
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Fall Monument
By Lori Nix and Kathleen Gerber
Located in New York, NY
dioramas in their Brooklyn studio, which are then carefully lighted and photographed. The obsessive process
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Winter Monument
By Lori Nix and Kathleen Gerber
Located in New York, NY
dioramas in their Brooklyn studio, which are then carefully lighted and photographed. The obsessive process
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Concession
By Lori Nix and Kathleen Gerber
Located in New York, NY
dioramas in their Brooklyn studio, which are then carefully lighted and photographed. The obsessive process
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Utopia
By Lori Nix and Kathleen Gerber
Located in New York, NY
dioramas in their Brooklyn studio, which are then carefully lighted and photographed. The obsessive process
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2010s Contemporary Color Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Double Moving, 2018
Located in ATLANTA, GA
and descends the Niger River with other companions. This experience on the borders of our
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20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Cardboard
People Also Browsed
More than Ever
By Polly Morgan
Located in London, GB
Polyurethane cast, ebony, acrylic, taxidermy snake, 2017, numbered from the edition of 10, 17 x 10 x 10 cm. (3.9 x 6.9 x 3.9 in.)
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21st Century and Contemporary Mixed Media
Materials
Ebony, Acrylic Polymer, Polyurethane
President John F. & First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy’s English Victorian Tea Table
By Albert Hadley, Sister Parish
Located in St. Louis, MO
President John F. & First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy’s
English Victorian tea table
Quite possibly the most important tea table in American History
The famed, English Victorian tea ta...
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Antique Late 19th Century English Victorian Card Tables and Tea Tables
Materials
Lacquer
H 19 in W 33.5 in D 27.25 in
René Lalique Bacchantes Yellow Rene Lalique Glass Vase
By René Lalique
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
René Lalique (1860-1945)
Bacchantes
Yellow Rene Lalique glass vase with ten female nude figures in high relief on a self illuminating bronze base, cast with stylized oak leaves.
W...
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Vintage 1920s Vases
Materials
Art Glass
Pair of Louis XVI Style Carved and Laqué Gilded Bergère Settees or Loveseats
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A pair of Louis XVI style carved and Laqué gilded bergère settees. The elegant pair of carved loveseats, upholstered in a blue velvet, with padded backs and sides and a cushion seat,...
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21st Century and Contemporary Unknown Louis XVI Loveseats
Materials
Wood
Antique Rowland Ward Signed English Taxidermy Horse Hoof Match Holder
By Rowland Ward
Located in Forney, TX
A rare and important late 19th century Victorian era metal mounted horse hoof match holder by Rowland Ward.
Museum quality example, this most unusual curiosity having a gilt brass...
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Antique Late 19th Century English Victorian Taxidermy
Materials
Brass
Extensive Assembled Meissen Blue and White Bird Model Dinner Service, circa 1890
Located in New York, NY
Each piece painted in underglaze-blue and heightened in gilding with an exotic bird perched upon peony branches, comprising: an oval soup tureen, cover and two stands, an 18" oval pl...
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Antique 1890s German Dinner Plates
Materials
Porcelain
Japanese Lacquer and Cinnabar "Samurai" Cabinet, Inaba Family, Edo Period
Located in Troy, NY
Exceptionally large and rare lacquer cabinet. According to the heraldry, visible on the headgear in one of the panels, it was made for the Inaba family, a high ranking Daimyo family,...
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Antique Late 19th Century Japanese Edo Lacquer
Materials
Wood
Taxidermy Composition with Rare Exotic Birds in a Large Bowed Glass Case
Located in Leuven , BE
A wonderful glass case with a selection of 20 rare exotic birds in a natural environment of tree branches and grass. The case has a rare bowed front glass and is in good condition fo...
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Antique Late 19th Century British Victorian Taxidermy
Materials
Organic Material
H 27.96 in W 40.16 in D 9.45 in
Vintage Handmade Boat Model Diorama
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Vintage handmade boat model diorama of the "Sovereign of the Seas" a three masted schooner, displayed in its original case. Originally built in Massachusetts in 1852 and in 1854, thi...
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Antique 19th Century American American Colonial Nautical Objects
Materials
Hardwood
Sea Life and Shell Diorama /Shadow Box
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
3-715 Beautiful sea life diorama including sea shells various crustaceans ,seahorse starfish encased in a walnut frame under glass.
Brass hanging ring
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Vintage 1950s Nautical Objects
Materials
Shell
Cristalleries De Baccarat, a Large Pair of French Cut-Crystal Tsarine Torcheres
By Cristalleries De Baccarat
Located in New York, NY
Cristalleries De Baccarat, A Large Pair of French Cut-Crystal Twenty-Four Light Tsarine Torcheres, Standing Floor Chandeliers.
"A Magnificent Pair of Chandeliers"
Each central ...
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20th Century French Floor Lamps
Materials
Crystal
H 86 in W 33 in D 33 in
Religious Chalkware Diorama
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Amazing religious chalkware wall hanging found in a Catholic church in Philadelphia. The pictures describe it all. Wonderful detail and dimension.
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Antique 19th Century American Folk Art Religious Items
Materials
Plaster
Lucinda Oakes Coral Cabinet of Curiosities Chimney Board
Located in New York, NY
Oil on board
Exquisitely painted with trompe l'oeil decoration of a wunderkammer filled with shells and coral specimens; with knobs and on removable feet.
Designed to be placed in ...
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2010s English Neoclassical Fireplace Tools and Chimney Pots
Materials
Wood, Paint
Antique Nautical Maritime Ship Ocean Liner Steamship Shadowbox Diorama 27"
Located in Dayton, OH
Antique three dimensional folk art diorama portraying a steam boat / oceanliner / ship on a choppy sea. The model is set in a rectangular shadowbox with white trim and brown wood fr...
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Early 20th Century Nautical Objects
Materials
Hardwood
H 12.5 in W 26.5 in D 3.5 in
Rare Meissen Marcolini Porcelain Chinoiserie Incense Burner Vase and Cover
By Meissen Porcelain
Located in New York, NY
A rare Meissen Marcolini Porcelain Chinoiserie incense burner vase and cover, made for the Chinese market, circa 1800, blue cross swords and star mark, Pressnummer 58
A Museum Qua...
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Antique Late 18th Century German Chinoiserie Ceramics
Materials
Porcelain
19th Century Unique Folk Art Guernsey Shell Diorama Display
Located in London, GB
19th century unique Folk Art Guernsey shell diorama display
We are proud to offer a unique folk-art hand-crafted example of a seashell diorama. Displayed in a hand carved wooden fr...
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Antique 1880s British Folk Art Nautical Objects
Materials
Natural Fiber
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Ship Shadow Box Diorama
Located in New York, NY
Carved wood sails, interesting sea and bright, original paint. Exceptional full hull ship diorama
Category
20th Century American Nautical Objects
Materials
Wood, Glass
A Nineteenth Century The East River Looking Southwest by Nicolino Calyo
By Nicolino Calyo
Located in New York, NY
Nicolino Calyo (1799-1884)
The East River Looking Southwest, Blackwell’s Island in Foreground, The
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Antique 19th Century Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Paper
A Nineteenth Century View of Lower New York from Jersey City by Nicolino Calyo
By Nicolino Calyo
Located in New York, NY
created a diorama of the Mexican War in 1847 and a panorama of the
Connecticut River in 1848
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Antique 19th Century Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Paper
McKay's Ship Yard- The Launching of Clippership "Flying Cloud" in 1851
By Paul Garnett
Located in Stonington, CT
of the Mystic River and, in fact, the launching rails, or what remains of them, can still be seen at
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
H 24 in W 48 in D 2 in
English 19th Century Diorama in Gilt Frame
Located in Baton Rouge, LA
A rare 19th Century diorama of a riverside scene made in England circa 1890. This unique piece
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Antique 19th Century English Folk Art Paintings
Materials
Paint
Here be dragons: the river dragon
By Emily Jan
Located in Montreal, Quebec
resin. These environments, like enterable museum dioramas, mix elements of high culture with low culture
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Mixed Media, Textile, Silicone, Wood
Large Domed Victorian Diorama
Located in Peekskill, NY
We bought this perfect six squirrel diorama out of a Historic River 175 year old estate. The owner
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Antique Late 19th Century American Early Victorian Collectibles and Curi...
Three Antique Hudson River Valley Style Colored Etchings by W.H Bartlett
By W. H. Bartlett
Located in Big Flats, NY
Set of three antique Hudson River Valley style colored etching scenes: "Crow-Nest" by W.H
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Antique Early 19th Century English Prints
Materials
Paper
H 12.75 in W 13.75 in D 0.5 in
Sharks
By Lori Nix and Kathleen Gerber
Located in New York, NY
dioramas of rooms in imaginary natural history museums, and then photograph them in black and white. The
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Anglerfish
By Lori Nix and Kathleen Gerber
Located in New York, NY
dioramas of rooms in imaginary natural history museums, and then photograph them in black and white. The
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Still-life Photography
Materials
Archival Pigment
Vintage River Diorama
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
a river diorama featuring 2 boats with wonderful detail in a fine glass case
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Antique Late 19th Century Nautical Objects
Diorama of a trophy fish with curved glass.
Located in New Orleans, LA
by J.J. Greaves, Royalty Fishery River Avon, September 1939."
Category
20th Century English Taxidermy
Materials
Glass, Wood
1930's Diorama of Fort Dearborn Chicago Illinois Century of Progress
Located in Chicago, IL
Here is a cased diorama of the Fort Dearborn, which was located beside the Chicago River, and was
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Vintage 1930s American Models and Miniatures
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River Diorama For Sale on 1stDibs
You are likely to find exactly the river diorama you’re looking for on 1stDibs, as there is a broad range for sale. Find modern versions now, or shop for modern creations for a more modern example of these cherished works. If you’re looking for a river diorama from a specific time period, our collection is diverse and broad-ranging, and you’ll find at least one that dates back to the 19th Century while another version may have been produced as recently as the 21st Century. Adding a river diorama 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 black, gray and more. There have been many interesting river diorama examples over the years, but those made by Lori Nix and Kathleen Gerber, Carol Wax and David Roberts are often thought to be among the most thought-provoking. Artworks like these of any era or style can make for thoughtful decor in any space, but a selection from our variety of those made in archival pigment print, pigment print and paint can add an especially memorable touch.
How Much is a River Diorama?
A river diorama can differ in price owing to various characteristics — the average selling price for items in our inventory is $5,000, while the lowest priced sells for $750 and the highest can go for as much as $48,719.