Franklin Booth

At the Ball, Probable Interior Illustration

Signed "Franklin Booth" Lower Left "Where the pure child-face had first drifted across his bewildered vision." Illustration for "The Thief," by Constance Smedley, published in Every...

"Where the pure child-face had first drifted across his bewildered vision." Illustration for "The Thief," by Constance Smedley, published in Everybody's Magazine, September, 1908, p....

Medium: Watercolor on Board Signature: Signed and Dated Lower Left

Medium: Pen and Ink on Board Signature: Signed Lower Left Story Illustration- Life Magazine ca. 1915 Seated Man in dressing gown pulling on maid's apron

Rassenfosse, Armand.( 1862-1934) Sortie De Bal, 1894. Original drypoint in colors on Japan, initialled in red ink by artist with his monogram. Beautiful impression. In addition, the ...

Lithograph from Carlos Schwabe’s series of hand-colored Symbolist fantasy illustrations for Catulle Mendès’ Hésperus, published in 1904 by Société de pr...

The Awakening is an original modern artwork realized by Ferdinand Bac (1859 - 1952) in 1922. Original Lithograph on ivory paper. Signed and dated on plate on the lower right corner: F. Bac 1922. Excellent conditions. The Awakening depicts a very interesting scene. A girl below is awakened by an apparition of a standing and monumental female figure on her right. She is, according to the headdress, the Goddess Minerva, goddess of the wisdom. the Goddess is taking off a veil to reveal herself. On the right you can see a glimpse of vegetation; the figures indeed are surrounded by dense vegetation. Ferdinand Bac (1859 - 1952). Ferdinand-Sigismond Bach, known as Ferdinand Bac was a French cartoonist, artist and writer, son of an illegitimate nephew of the Emperor Napoleon. As a young man, he mixed in the fashionable world of Paris of the Belle Époque, and was known for his caricatures, which appeared in popular journals. He also traveled widely in Europe and the Mediterranean. In his fifties, he began a career as a landscape gardener. He attended Adolphe Thiers, Gambetta, Richard Wagner, Victor Hugo, Taine, Villiers de L'Isle-Adam, Paul Verlaine, Maurice Barrès, Barbey d'Aurevilly, Alphonse Daudet, Guy de Maupassant, Verdi, Gounod, Pierre de Nolhac, and many more other famous people of the time. He established himself as one of the first cartoonists and caricaturists of his time, as famous as Albert Robida...

Etching and acquatint in black ink, 1875. B/g 100 For Une vielle mistress before the symphonic margins were removed and the plate cut. Printed on japon paper. State iii/v. 6 . Signed Felix Buhot...