18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
18th Century and Earlier Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
18th Century and Earlier Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
18th Century and Earlier Animal Drawings and Watercolors
18th Century and Earlier Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
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Period: 18th Century and Earlier
George Edwards: 18th Century Engravings of Birds
Located in Richmond, GB
George Edwards: ""A History of Uncommon Birds"", 1749-1761.
A prominent English naturalist and ornithologist, George Edwards (1694 -1773) is best known for his work, ""A Natural His...
Category
18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Engraving
Portrait of a Lady, a drawing signed and dated by Augustin de Saint-Aubin
Located in PARIS, FR
This drawing full of freshness presents us with the profile of an elegant lady, drawn by Augustin de Saint-Aubin on a beautiful summer day in 1776, during the early months of Louis X...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Pencil
A Young Lady and Two Beaux - 18th Century British Wash Drawing by Paul Sandby
By Paul Sandby
Located in London, GB
PAUL SANDBY
(1731-1809)
A Young Lady with Two Beaux
Pencil and brown wash
Framed
11 by 13.5 cm., 4 ¼ by 5 ¼ in.
(frame size 27.5 by 30 cm., 10 ¾ by 11 ¾ in.)
Provenance:
R F Pea...
Category
Realist 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
George Edwards, Engravings of Birds, published by Seligmann, 1770.
Located in Richmond, GB
Price is per each framed print.
"Sammlung Verschiedenr Auslandischer und Selener Vogel", Nuremberg 1770-1773. Edited by Johann Michael Seligmann (1749 -1776): engravings with origin...
Category
18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Engraving
George Edwards, Engravings of Parrots, published by Seligmann.
Located in Richmond, GB
PRICE IS FOR EACH FRAMED PRINT
"Sammlung Verschiedenr Auslandischer und Selener Vogel", Nuremberg 1770-1773. Edited by Johann Michael Seligmann (1749 -1776): engravings with origina...
Category
18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Etching
George Edwards: 18th Century Engravings of Birds
Located in Richmond, GB
George Edwards: ""A History of Uncommon Birds"", 1749-1761.
A prominent English naturalist and ornithologist, George Edwards (1694 -1773) is best known for his work, ""A Natural His...
Category
18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Engraving
George Edwards, Engravings of Parrots, published by Seligmann.
Located in Richmond, GB
PRICE IS FOR EACH FRAMED PRINT
"Sammlung Verschiedenr Auslandischer und Selener Vogel", Nuremberg 1770-1773. Edited by Johann Michael Seligmann (1749 -1776): engravings with origina...
Category
18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Etching
Set of Twelve 18th Century Engravings of Birds
Located in Richmond, GB
George Edwards: ""A History of Uncommon Birds"", 1749-1761.
A prominent English naturalist and ornithologist, George Edwards (1694 -1773) is best known for his work, ""A Natural His...
Category
18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Engraving
Rome/Tevere - Original Pencil and Watercolor Drawing - 1781
Located in Roma, IT
Rome is a beautiful artwork realized by Jan Peter Verdussen in 1741.
In good condition except for some pencil marks and traces of sealing wax on the back and some diffused foxings.
...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil
Orpheus and the Animals, A Study after an Ancient Bas-Relief
Located in New York, NY
Inscribed “55” and “218” in the lower right
Watermark: Heawood 1351
Laid down on historic Cassiano Del Pozzo mount
(Mount Type A, 531 x 402 mm)
Provenance:
Commissioned by Cassia...
Category
Baroque 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Pen
The Adoration - Original Painting by Giuseppe Assereto - 1630
Located in Roma, IT
The Adoration is an original modern artwork realized by Giuseppe Assereto (died in Genoa in 1650) in the first half of the 17th Century.
Original Oil Painting on Canvas.
A 19th Ce...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Oil
George Edwards: 18th Century Engravings of Ducks And Wading Birds
Located in Richmond, GB
George Edwards: ""A History of Uncommon Birds"", 1749-1761.
A prominent English naturalist and ornithologist, George Edwards (1694 -1773) is best known for his work, ""A Natural His...
Category
18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Johann Seligmann: Engravings of Parrots After George Edwards, 1770, Framed
Located in Richmond, GB
"Sammlung Verschiedenr Auslandischer und Selener Vogel", Nuremberg 1770-1773. Edited by Johann Michael Seligmann (1749 -1776): engravings with original hand-colouring after the drawi...
Category
18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
French, old master drawing of a gentleman by Jean-Baptiste Greuze
By Jean-Baptiste Greuze
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Jean-Baptiste Greuze (French, 1725 – 1805)
Portrait of a man
Sanguine on paper
16 x 12 in. (40.8 x 30.7cm.)
This has been expertised by the Cabinet de Bayser, Paris
Behind glass in ...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper
George Edwards: 18th Century Engravings of Birds
Located in Richmond, GB
George Edwards: ""A History of Uncommon Birds"", 1749-1761.
A prominent English naturalist and ornithologist, George Edwards (1694 -1773) is best known for his work, ""A Natural His...
Category
18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Engraving
George Edwards: Set of Twelve Parrots,Published by Seligmann.
Located in Richmond, GB
PRICE IS FOR THE SET OF TWELVE
"Sammlung Verschiedenr Auslandischer und Selener Vogel", Nuremberg 1770-1773. Edited by Johann Michael Seligmann (1749 -1776): engravings with origina...
Category
18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Etching
18th century French Neo Classical school, Study for frontispiece, drawing
Located in Paris, FR
18th century French Neo Classical school,
Study for frontispiece,
Brown ink and pen, brown ink wash on paper
15,5 x 11 cm, 13 x 8.5 cm for the main motive
Framed : 27 x 21 cm
This ...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
George Edwards: 18th Century Engravings of Ducks And Wading Birds
Located in Richmond, GB
George Edwards: ""A History of Uncommon Birds"", 1749-1761.
A prominent English naturalist and ornithologist, George Edwards (1694 -1773) is best known for his work, ""A Natural His...
Category
18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Departing Soldier with his family - 18thC Ink and Pen drawing - German School
Located in Meinisberg, CH
Heinrich Adam Elias Borny
(German, 1742-1778)
Late baroque Ink and pen drawing on laid paper (no watermark)
Sheet, ca. 29.4 x 22.7 cm
Image size, ca. 22.5 x 16.1 cm
Signed bottom le...
Category
Baroque 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Laid Paper
George Edwards : A Set of Twelve 18th Century Etchings of Hummingbirds
Located in Richmond, GB
George Edwards: ""A History of Uncommon Birds"", 1749-1761.
A prominent English naturalist and ornithologist, George Edwards (1694 -1773) is best known for his work, ""A Natural His...
Category
18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Etching
Animal painting of a 'Tamanuâguacû (Ant-eater)' late 17th/18th century, Brazil
Located in Amsterdam, NL
Follower of Zacharias Wagener (1614-1688)
Tamanuâguasû (Giant Anteater)
On Italian 17th or 18th-century paper, H. 28 x W. 43.5 cm
The present painting is a copy after Wagener’...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, India Ink, Gouache
Nude - Sitting Woman
By Jerzy Mazur
Located in Salzburg, AT
Jerzy Mazur was born in Kołobrzeg in 1964. He graduated from the State College of Fine Arts in Gdańsk at the sculpture department under the supervision of prof. Franciszek Duszeńko.
...
Category
Contemporary 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Gouache
Johann Seligmann: Engravings of Parrots After George Edwards, 1770, Framed
Located in Richmond, GB
"Sammlung Verschiedenr Auslandischer und Selener Vogel", Nuremberg 1770-1773. Edited by Johann Michael Seligmann (1749 -1776): engravings with original hand-colouring after the drawi...
Category
18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Johann Seligmann: Engravings of Parrots After George Edwards, 1770, Framed
Located in Richmond, GB
"Sammlung Verschiedenr Auslandischer und Selener Vogel", Nuremberg 1770-1773. Edited by Johann Michael Seligmann (1749 -1776): engravings with original hand-colouring after the drawi...
Category
18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Veneto School, Landscape, end of 18th, ink wash and white lead on paper, signed
Located in Florence, IT
This drawing (ink wash, white lead on paper 27.8 x 39.2 inch) is signed on the bottom right corner " *** **** dipinto" but the signature is hard to read.
It depicts a countryside vi...
Category
Other Art Style 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Johann Seligmann: Engravings of Parrots After George Edwards, 1770, Framed
Located in Richmond, GB
"Sammlung Verschiedenr Auslandischer und Selener Vogel", Nuremberg 1770-1773. Edited by Johann Michael Seligmann (1749 -1776): engravings with original hand-colouring after the drawi...
Category
18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Baroque Interior, a drawing attributed to Francesco Battaglioli (1725 - 1796)
By Francesco Battaglioli
Located in PARIS, FR
The technique of this luminous architectural drawing with its rigorous perspective is perfectly representative of the creations of the Venetian school’s 18th century vedutists. Simil...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
A Windmill above an Arched Bridge, at left a Quay Wall
Located in New York, NY
Inscribed “159” in the upper right
Provenance:
(Possibly) The Van Goyen sketchbook which in 1845 belonged to Andrew Geddes, A.R.A. (1783-1844), London; his sale, Christie's, London,...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Chalk, India Ink, Watercolor
Johann Seligmann: Engravings of Parrots After George Edwards, 1770, Framed
Located in Richmond, GB
"Sammlung Verschiedenr Auslandischer und Selener Vogel", Nuremberg 1770-1773. Edited by Johann Michael Seligmann (1749 -1776): engravings with original hand-colouring after the drawi...
Category
18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
French School Of The 18th century, An Ancient Shipyard, Drawing
Located in Paris, FR
French school of the 18th century
An ancient shipyard or building site (?)
Ink and ink wash on paper
17.5 x 23 cm
In a modern frame 32 x 37 cm
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
Rat of the Sabines - Original Sanguine Drawing End of 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Rat of Sabinesis an original sanguine drawing on thick cream-colored paper, realized by an anonymous French artist of the end of XVIII century.
A superb original drawing with skille...
Category
18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Parnassus after Raphael - 18th Century Pen and Ink Wash Drawing
Located in Meinisberg, CH
The Parnassus after Raphael
18th century
Pen and Ink Wash Drawing
Glased wood frame, ca. 62 x 78.5 cm
Mounted behind an arched matt.
This large drawing is after the famous fresco t...
Category
Italian School 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Handmade Paper
18th Century Watercolour - Children Fishing From The Bridge
Located in Corsham, GB
A charming watercolour in a style very typical of the late 18th/early 19th Centuries. The scene shows three children fishing on a small wooden bridge surrounded by trees. The paintin...
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18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Battle of Peterwardein, By Jan van Huchtenburg, Battle Scene, Old Master
Located in Greven, DE
Jan Van Huchtenburg
Battle of Peterwardein, 1716
Oil on canvas, 45 x 64 cm
monogrammed "HB"
n 1670 he settled at Haarlem, where he married Elisabeth Mommes. It seems he practised an...
Category
Baroque 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Canvas
John Carter FSA (1748-1817) - Fine 1780 Watercolour, Dunstable Priory
Located in Corsham, GB
A marvellous original 1780 work by the well-known architect and watercolourist John Carter FSA (1748-1817), depicting the West Front of Dunstable Priory, a 12th Century Augustinian c...
Category
18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Attrib. John Russell RA (1745–1806) - Pastel, Young Boy With A Pekingese
Located in Corsham, GB
A truly masterful portrait in pastel. A young boy in traditional Georgian attire with charmingly curled auburn hair. Russell was most renowned for his pastel portraiture and had a wo...
Category
18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Putti in a Landscape, Putti playing, flowers, Berchet, French Art, Old Master
By Pierre Berchet
Located in Greven, DE
Pierre Berchet, Drawing of Putti playing in a landscape,
Painter of decorative history subjects; trained under La Fosse; worked in France and during the 1690s in Britain; executed th...
Category
Baroque 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Handmade Paper
Follower of Paul Sandby RA (1731–1809) - 18thC Watercolour, House In The Meadow
Located in Corsham, GB
A wonderful English landscape in watercolour showing a small house in the middle of a meadow clearing, surrounded by tall trees. executed by an obvious follower of Paul Sandby, this ...
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18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
18th Century Watercolour - Rustic Village
Located in Corsham, GB
A wonderful late-18th century painting of a rustic village with tall intertwined trees in the foreground and mountains in the distance. Presented in a cream mount and a wooden frame ...
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18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Landscape - Original Drawing - 1794
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape is an original drawing in pencil realized by an anonymous artist in 1794.
Included a Passeprtout: 25 x33 cm
Good Conditions.
The artwork is depicted through delicate and...
Category
Modern 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Frederick Parr (1887-1970) - Early 20th Century Watercolour, Houses
Located in Corsham, GB
A quaint Cornish harbour scene with thatched cottages and fishing boats. The colour palette adds a warm late afternoon feel. The painting has been signed in the lower right corner an...
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18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
J. March - Framed 1793 Watercolour, View of Derwent River
Located in Corsham, GB
A very fine late 18th century watercolour of the Derbyshire countryside. Finely presented in a washline mount and gilt effect frame. Inscribed on the reverse of the frame "Verso - vi...
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18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
attrib. Giuseppe Mazzola (1748-1838) - 1798 Watercolour, Spinning Cotton
Located in Corsham, GB
A delicate and finely detailed watercolour showing a group of women with spindles and cotton. Their children play around them as they work. The feeling of happiness in their work shi...
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18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Joshua Cristall RWS (1767-1847) - 1785 Watercolour, Resting in the Forest
Located in Corsham, GB
An early painting by the esteemed watercolourist and President of the Society of Painters in Water-Colours Joshua Cristall (1767-1847). The painting depicts a scene in a forest of tr...
Category
18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
The 1564 Medici Danti Map of California
By Fra Egnazio Danti
Located in New York, NY
Florentine, Probably Seventeenth Century
Titled
L’ultime parti note nel Indie occidentali
Dated on the edge of the cartouche: “M.D. LXIII. M.AG” [1564…the month of August]
In the ...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paper, Ink, Watercolor, Gouache, Pen
18th Century Watercolour - Lakeside View
Located in Corsham, GB
A late-18th century watercolour with body colour depicting two figures resting by a lake. The viewer joins these figures in looking out at the sweeping landscape that stretches into ...
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18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
After Michelangelo - 18th Century Sanguine, Detail from the Creation of Adam
By Michelangelo
Located in Corsham, GB
A sanguine study of a male torso in the manner of Old Master drawings. The study is possibly after a detail from Michelangelo's (1475-1564) 'The Creation of Adam' (c.1508-1512) in th...
Category
18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Chalk
John Cleveley the Younger (1747-1786) - 18th Century Watercolour, Cutter at Sea
Located in Corsham, GB
A fine 18th century watercolour of a cutter at sea by the prominent maritime artist John Cleveley the Younger (1747-1786). Presented glazed in a white mount and an oak frame with bea...
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18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Ferrau Fenzoni, Painting AND preparatorial Drawing, John the Baptist, Renaissanc
By Ferrau Fenzoni
Located in Greven, DE
The painting and the preparatory drawing are offered together.
Provenance
Private collection, Germany, Trier, c. 1980- 2013
Saint John the Baptist
Brown ink and wash over red chalk...
Category
Mannerist 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Handmade Paper
Caesar's landing in Brittany, an original drawing by Giuseppe Bernardino Bison
Located in PARIS, FR
We wish to thank Mrs. Bożena Anna Kowalczyk who suggested this drawing be attributed to Giuseppe Bernardino Bison during a direct examination of the artwork.
This drawing, perfectly...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
The maker - Original Ink Watercolor by M. De Vito - Early 1800
Located in Roma, IT
The Baker is an original watercolor on ivory-colored paper, realized by Michela De Vito in the first half of XIX century.
Good conditions except for a very light shading on right s...
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Modern 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Atrrib. Thomas Rowlandson (1757–1827) - c. 1798 Watercolour, The Start
Located in Corsham, GB
A humorous late Georgian cartoon, showing the chaotic start to a horse race as one of the horses goes out of control and runs into the spectators, sending them fleeing. The scene app...
Category
18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Peter La Cave (1769-1811) - 18th Century Watercolour, Pony and Trap
Located in Corsham, GB
A late-18th century watercolour depicting two figures driving a pony and trap with a dog following behind. Presented glazed in a washline mount and a distressed gilt-effect wooden fr...
Category
18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
18th Century Pastel - Rebecca
Located in Corsham, GB
This charming portrait captures Rebecca, daughter of John and Mary Davis of London at a desk writing with a quill. Her fine dress with lace embellishments and a elegant cap reflect t...
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18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel
School of Athens after Raphael - 18th Century Pen and Ink Wash Drawing
Located in Meinisberg, CH
The School of Athens after Raphael
18th century
Pen and Ink Wash Drawing
Glased wood frame, ca. 62 x 78.5 cm
Mounted behind an arched matt.
This large drawing is after the famous f...
Category
Italian School 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Handmade Paper
Reclining Youth, 18th Century Nude Graphite on Paper
By French Old Master
Located in London, GB
French School
18th Century
Reclining Youth
Graphite and charcoal on paper
Image size: 15 x 23 inches (38 x 58.5 cm)
Wash line mount and gilt frame
Painting in eighteenth-century Fra...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Graphite
18th century English scene of a man on his horse with his dog in a landscape
Located in Woodbury, CT
Wonderful 18th century English gouache on paper of a 18th century English scene of a man on his horse with his dog in a landscape
One of a set of five all framed in Hogarth frames. ...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Untitled (wolf head), ink, drawing, portrait
Located in New York, NY
signed and dated ink drawing on paper with a wolf motif
David Wojnarowicz (1954 - 1992) was a multi-media artistic prodigy. As a run-away street hustler at a young age, Wojnarowic...
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Contemporary 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
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