Frederick Henry Townsend

Frederick Henry Townsend - 1914 Pen Drawing, "I'd Give the German Emporor One.."

This fine renaissance study, attributed to Bolognese painter Prospero Fontana (1512-1597), depicts two cherubs seated in clouds, playing with the arms of Mars. Elegantly mastered in ...

A wonderful illustrative study by the British artist John Strevens. Depicting an Edwardian couple enjoying a day at the races. With waterclour wash....

A very fine pen and ink drawing depicting a peasant farmer with his family conversing with the landlord. The characters are dressed in 17th-century attire. Signed to the upper left-h...

Christopher Columbus and his son Diego outside the convent of La Rabida, ink on paper. Heightened with bodycolour and graphite. Presented in a narrow wooden frame. Signed, inscribed ...

Mary Carroll's (US based) "Incantation" is an original, handmade graphite drawing that depicts a female model sitting at the base of a tree. Artist Biography: Born in 1979 West Vir...

Born in Szeged, Hungary, he became one of the better known and successful illustrators of the Golden Age of Illustration, completing over 100 books. Among them are "A Treasury of Verse for Little Children," "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam," and "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner." He is probably best known for pen and ink drawings of mythology subjects geared towards children. He studied at Budapest Technical University and attended art schools in Munich and Paris before moving to London at age 23. In 1907, he began illustrating children's books and did a series of annual gift books...

This scene represents the acquaintance of the bride before marriage among the nobility. This scene is fictitious and has no specific temporal and historical prototypes. Nevertheless,...

Just another evening in the artist's studio, when the guests arrived and sat down to look at all kinds of art books. Two girls were so carried away by the book that they no longer no...