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Period: 18th Century and Earlier
Planimetry of the Vatican - China Ink After G.L. Bernini - Mid-17th
Located in Roma, IT
Planimetry of the Vatican After G.L. Bernini is an original China Ink realized by an unknown artist in mid-17th century.
Good condition except for some spoiled yellowed paper on mar...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
Johann Weinmann: 18th Century Engraving of an aloe in a decorative pot.
Located in Richmond, GB
Hand-coloured mezzotint engravings of decorative urns with aloes and cacti from: ""Phytanthoza Iconographia"", c1739, presented in hand- made, parcel-gilt, ebonised and decalcomania...
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18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Mezzotint
Portrait - Original Ink and Watercolor on Paper - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait is an original Modern artwork realized in the half of the 18th Century in France.
Original watercolor on ivory paper.
The work is surrounded by a colored frame.
The sig...
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Modern 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Ink
Boy with Mask - Pencil and Watercolor by Antonio Visentini - 18th Century
By Antonio Visentini
Located in Roma, IT
Boy with Mask is a Modern Artwork realized by Antonio Visentini (Venice, 1688 - Venice, 1782) in the first half of the XVIII Century.
Original watercolor on watermarked ivory paper....
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18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil
Illustration - Ink and Watercolor on Paper - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Illustration is a drawing in watercolor on paper realized by an anonymous artist of the 18 century.
With a drawing on the rear.
The State of preservation is good, except for diffu...
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Contemporary 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Ink
Ceiling Decoration - Original Ink and Watercolor - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
"Ceiling Decoration" is an original drawing in ink and watercolor on ivory-colored paper, realized by Anonymous Artist of the XVIII Century.
The st...
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Modern 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Ink
Plants - Original China Ink Drawing by Jan Pieter Verdussen - 1740
Located in Roma, IT
Plants is a beautiful artwork realized by Jan Peter Verdussen in 1740.
pen and watercolour on brown paper. In good codition except for some pencil marks and traces of sealing wax on...
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Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
Two Angels - Ink and Watercolor Drawing by A. Brustolon - Early 1700
By Andrea Brustolon
Located in Roma, IT
Due Angeli is an original artwork realized by Andrea Brustolon.
Mixed media, ink and watercolor.
The artwork rapresents two baroque angels, study realized by Brostolon for a sculpt...
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Baroque 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Procida - Original Ink Watercolor by M. De Vito - Early 1800
Located in Roma, IT
Procida is an original watercolor on ivory-colored paper, realized by Michela De Vito in the first half of XIX century.
Good conditions except for two little foxings.
The title is...
Category
Modern 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Ink
Eighteenth century Old Master drawing - St Jerome
Located in London, GB
Pen, ink and wash
Framed dimensions: 9 ½ x 11 ¼ inches
Drawn c. 1763
This small, powerful study shows St Jerome contemplating the bible with a cross and sk...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Pen
Sketch front back neoclassicism Milanese caryatids of the 18th century
Located in Florence, IT
Double-sided sketch for the "Sala delle Cariatidi" of the Royal Palace in Milan.
The vibrant and intense brown ink sketch of these two female figures, executed by the Parma plastici...
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Other Art Style 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
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
Parmigianino Figural Ink Study
Located in New York, NY
Lombard School ink figural study of the Three Graces inscribed "Le Parmesan," and "Ecole Lombard." Pen and brown ink. Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola, Il Parmigianino (1503-1540.) P...
Category
Renaissance 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper
Dutch School, Marine, Coastal Scene with Ships in Storm
Located in Greven, DE
Marine
Dutch School, 18th Century
Coastal Scene with ships in a storm
Gouache on prepared paper
Category
Baroque 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Animal drawing of magpie bird of blue and white by enlighted british painter
Located in Milan, IT
Peter Paillou (c.1720 – c.1790) was a British artist best known for his paintings of birds, many of which were used as book illustrations. He gained repute in the 18th century as a natural history painter and illustrator. He was employed by two leading naturalists and antiquarians of the time, Taylor White (1701-1772) and Thomas Pennant (1726-1798). He illustrated the latter's British Zoology and decorated the hall at Downing, Pennant's house in Flintshire, with several pictures of birds...
Category
Realist 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Tempera, Watercolor
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
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
The Martyrdom of Saint Bartholomew, a preparatory drawing by Alessandro Casolani
Located in PARIS, FR
This powerful pen and brown ink wash drawing is a study for an altarpiece depicting The Martyrdom of Saint Bartholomew. Signed and dated 1604, it was painted at the end of his life b...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Pen
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
Angels in Adoration
Located in New York, NY
Provenance: Private Collection, USA.
This drawing is by Ercole Procaccini the Younger, who represents the final generation of painters in the storied Procaccini family. The son of C...
Category
Baroque 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Chalk
Johann Weinmann: 18th Century Engraving. Aloe in a Decorative pot.
Located in Richmond, GB
PRICE IS FOR EACH FRAMED PRINT.
Hand-coloured mezzotint engravings of decorative urns with aloes and cacti from: ""Phytanthoza Iconographia"", c1739, presented in hand- made, parce...
Category
18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Mezzotint
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
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 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
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
Ramnagar Fort, India, Company School Late 18th Century Pen and Ink
Located in London, GB
Company School
18th Century
Ramnagar Fort, India
Pen & ink on paper
Inscribed and dated 1793
Acid free mount
This incredible detailed work would probably have been drawn by an En...
Category
English School 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Pen
Oil Landscape titled "A View of Irvington on Hudson"
Located in Fredericksburg, VA
"A View of Irvington on Hudson," a watercolor by John Henry Hill, captures the picturesque beauty of Irvington, a charming village nestled along the Hudson River. Hill, celebrated fo...
Category
Hudson River School 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
View of the Posillipo coastline near Naples by William Marlow (1740 - 1813)
Located in PARIS, FR
In this drawing, inspired by his stay in Naples in 1765, William Marlow presents us with a view of Cape Posillipo, to the west of Naples, an essential stage during the Grand Tour. Th...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
Paul Sandby, R.A. Study of a Fashionable Lady
By Paul Sandby
Located in Bristol, CT
Art Sz: 5"H x 3"W
Frame Sz: 9 3/4"H x 8"
Paul Sandby RA (1731 – 7 November 1809) was an English map-maker turned landscape painter in watercolours, who, along with his older brothe...
Category
18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
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
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
Bird painting of woodpecker of black and red by enlightened painter
Located in Milan, IT
Peter Paillou (c.1720 – c.1790) was a British artist best known for his paintings of birds, many of which were used as book illustrations. He gained repute in the 18th century as a natural history painter and illustrator. He was employed by two leading naturalists and antiquarians of the time, Taylor White (1701-1772) and Thomas Pennant (1726-1798). He illustrated the latter's British Zoology and decorated the hall at Downing, Pennant's house in Flintshire, with several pictures of birds...
Category
Realist 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Tempera, 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
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
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
Hunting Scene
By Jan Van der Straet
Located in Paris, Île-de-France
Attributed to Jan VAN DER STRAET, called Stradanus (Bruges, 1523 – Florence, 1605)
Hunting Scene
Pen and brown ink, brown wash and white heightening on prepared brown paper,
26 × 31 cm
Unsigned
Provenance
Private collection, France
This striking and highly accomplished drawing depicts a wild boar hunt in a wooded landscape, animated by numerous figures and animals. The dramatic energy of the foreground, where hounds and hunters engage the beast, is heightened by the bold use of white heightening, which models the forms and enlivens the surface. The background, structured by tall trees and populated with additional hunting scenes, lends the composition a theatrical depth.
Attributed to Jan van der Straet, known as Stradanus, this work belongs to the artistic context of Medicean Florence, where the artist developed an important body of hunting scenes intended for illustration and engraving. Influenced by Italian Renaissance models as well as his native Flemish culture, Stradanus excelled in dynamic storytelling and elegant draftsmanship.
The drawing may have been a preparatory study for one of the compositions from the celebrated Venationes Ferarum, Avium, Piscium series, engraved in Antwerp under the supervision of Philips Galle...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
$7,741
"Rustics By A Lake" by Paul Sandby (1730-1809)
By Paul Sandby
Located in Bristol, CT
Art Sz: 6"H x 6 1/4"W
Frame Sz: 15 1/4"H x 15 1/4"W
In coral mat w/ lacquer birdseye maple frame
Classic drawing in blue and grey washes over pencil on laid paper depicting two 'rustics by a lake' by the British artist Paul Sandby (1730-1809) whose works are represented in The Royal Collection at Windsor Castle. Provenance: The Cornish Torbock Collection Sotheby's London 14th April 1994, Lot 226/ Hubert Peake, Christie's 26th May 1959, Lot 51/ Colonel W. Gravatt 1867
Paul Sandby RA (1731 – 7 November 1809) was an English map-maker turned landscape painter in watercolours, who, along with his older brother...
Category
18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Wildlife painting of black bird sitting by enlightened british painter
Located in Milan, IT
Peter Paillou (c.1720 – c.1790) was a British artist best known for his paintings of birds, many of which were used as book illustrations. He gained repute in the 18th century as a natural history painter and illustrator. He was employed by two leading naturalists and antiquarians of the time, Taylor White (1701-1772) and Thomas Pennant (1726-1798). He illustrated the latter's British Zoology and decorated the hall at Downing, Pennant's house in Flintshire, with several pictures of birds...
Category
Realist 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Tempera, Watercolor
Eighteenth century Old Master drawing - Apollo destroying Niobe's children
Located in London, GB
Pen, ink and wash
Framed dimensions: 13 x 11 ¼ inches
Drawn c.1765
Verso: a study of a hanged man
Mortimer has filled this small sheet with action, depicting in the top right, Apollo and Artemis...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Pen
Wildlife drawing of jay bird of light blue by enlightened british painter
Located in Milan, IT
Peter Paillou (c.1720 – c.1790) was a British artist best known for his paintings of birds, many of which were used as book illustrations. He gained repute in the 18th century as a natural history painter and illustrator. He was employed by two leading naturalists and antiquarians of the time, Taylor White (1701-1772) and Thomas Pennant (1726-1798). He illustrated the latter's British Zoology and decorated the hall at Downing, Pennant's house in Flintshire, with several pictures of birds...
Category
Realist 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Tempera, Watercolor
Jacopo Zanguidi Dit Bertoja (1544 - 1574) - Combat of five figures after Raphael
Located in Paris, Île-de-France
Jacopo Zanguidi BERTOJA (1544-1574)
Combat of five figures, bas-relief from the School of Athens after Raphael
Ink on paper
43×34cm
Interesting thing
According to Professor David E...
Category
Renaissance 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
Beheading scene in front of an enthroned king, probably a martyr scene
Located in PARIS, FR
Italian School
Around 1700
Beheading scene in front of an enthroned king, probably a martyr scene
Black pencil
21.5 x 28 cm
29.5 x 39 cm
Provenance: Fryszman collection, sale on 01...
Category
Italian School 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Chalk
Disegno figurativo inglese neoclassico del XIX secolo a tema storico
Located in Florence, IT
Questo piccolo disegno, che per gli evidenti stilemi neoclassici può essere datato fra la fine del XVIII e gli inizi del XIX secolo, rappresenta la fuga del re Giacomo II Stuart-ulti...
Category
Other Art Style 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pencil
18th century ink study for the Leveson-Gower Children
Located in London, GB
Collections: J. Goodfriend, USA.
Brown wash and pencil on laid paper
Framed dimensions: 13.25 x 11.75 inches
This powerful drawing was made at the time that Romney was painting the famous group portrait of the Gower Children now in Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal. Romney was a bold and incisive draughtsman who made numerous rich brown ink studies, principally for historical compositions; by contrast, comparatively few studies linked directly to his portraits survive. The existence of a group of studies for the Gower Children underscores its importance to Romney. The sitters were the five youngest of the eight children of Granville, 2nd Earl Gower who, at the time the portrait was commissioned, was President of the Council in Lord North’s government and one of the best-connected and most influential people in England. The present drawing which is a large scale treatment of the composition in its final form perfectly distils Romney’s conceit: the younger children dancing whilst their elder sister, in the guise of a Bacchante plays the tambourine. The bold and dramatic study underlines both the artistic confidence and classical grandeur Romney gained during his trip to Italy between 1773 and 1775.
The commission from Granville, 2nd Earl Gower to paint five of his children came shortly after Romney’s Continental tour. The initial idea, as represented by the present drawing, seems to have been to paint Lady Anne, the figure on the right of the composition playing the tambourine, who was the youngest of Gower’s first four children by his second wife Lady Louisa Egerton and who married the Rev. Edward Vernon Harcourt, later Archbishop of York, with three of her younger half-siblings by Gower’s third wife, Lady Susanna Stewart: at the left Lady Georgina, who became Countess of St Germans following her marriage to the Hon. William Eliot; at the right Lady Charlotte Sophia, later Duchess of Beaufort and in the centre Lady Susanna, later Countess of Harrowby. Romney added a fifth child to the finished portrait, Gower’s son: Lord Granville, later created Viscount Granville and Earl Granville. In Italy Romney had produced a large number of studies of classical antiquities and old master paintings.
The commission from Gower offered Romney the opportunity to explore a complex multi-figural group, putting into practice the kind of ambitious classical quotations that Reynolds was currently exploiting. In 1773 Reynolds had completed the remarkable group portrait of the Montgomery Sisters, now in the Tate Gallery, London, which showed them adorning a herm of the Roman god Hymen; the composition used a garland to link the three figures who were shown in classical costume dancing at the foot of a Roman sculpture. Scholars have long pointed to a similar sources for the two compositions: the works of Nicolas Poussin. Whilst the Montgomery Sisters is based, in part, on a Bacchanal now in the Musée des Beaux-Arts, the Gower Children has always been associated with Poussin’s Dance to the Music of Time, now in the Wallace Collection, London. It seems more likely that Romney was looking to an antique source in the form of the Borghese Dancers, a Roman relief, then in Palazzo Borghese in Rome. Romney would have seen the relief of interlocking, dancing maidens and would also have known Guido Reni’s Aurora...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Pencil
Jacques Gamelin (1738-1803) Study After Raphaël, 1768, Black Stone White Chalk
Located in PARIS, FR
Jacques GAMELIN
Carcassone 1738-1803
Study after the triton of the Triumph of Galatea by Raphaël
1768
Black stone and light white chalk on blue paper
Signed and dated lower right
41...
Category
French School 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Chalk, Handmade Paper
Portrait of a Lady - Late 18th Century European Pastel
Located in London, GB
European School
Late 18th Century
Portrait of a Lady
Pastel on paper, mounted on canvas
Image size: 28 x 23 inches
Contemporary style frame
Provenance:
Ernst Museum Auction
This pastel portrait of a lady dates from the late eighteenth century. She is pictured in a white muslin dress...
Category
18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Laid Paper
Flemish School, Portrait Young Boy, Old Master Drawing, Baroque, 17th Century
Located in Greven, DE
Old Master Drawing, Flemish School, Portrait or Sketch of a standing young boy. Condition : see photos
The drawing is on paper.
Category
Baroque 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Crayon, Paper
Study in the Antique Style, a neoclassical drawing by Augustin Pajou
Located in PARIS, FR
In this lively and fresh drawing, probably taken from one of the artist's notebooks, Pajou presents us with a composition freely inspired by antiquity, as a souvenir of a visit to th...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink
The Boxing Match
Located in London, GB
Pencil, pen and ink and watercolour on laid paper
Image size: 12 ¾ x 16 inches (33 x 40.5 cm)
Wash mount and period frame
Boxing was a subject that Rowlandson depicted on a number ...
Category
18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Laid Paper, Pencil
Old Master Drawing, Westerkerk Keizersgracht in Amsterdam, 17th century, Dutch
Located in Greven, DE
Jan van der Heyden (1637 Gorinchem - 1712 Amsterdam), attributed.
Old Master Drawing, Westerkerk Keizersgracht in Amsterdam, 17th century, Dutch
Westerkerk and Keizersgracht in Amsterdam
Backside: later drawn backside with village church of the 18th century
Chalk and pen on paper
23,5 x 18,5 cm
Preliminary drawing for a painting from the creative period c. 1667 - 1670. This painting has been published a few years ago by Peter C. Sutton in the catalogue raisonné of the artist.
Van der Heyden was initially a pupil of a glass painter, but later turned exclusively to architectural painting and went to Amsterdam, where he painted views of churches, castles, palaces, public squares, streets, canals, etc., most of which are richly decorated with staffage. In addition, van der Heyden was also active as an inventor, for example, he developed a street lighting system for Amsterdam by means of oil street lamps, which was in operation from 1669 to 1840. After a stay in London, he painted the London fire of 1666, which he either witnessed himself or had seen the consequences of. Certainly influenced by this, he did much to further the technical and organisational development of the fire brigade from 1669 onwards. His greatest invention was probably the fire hose, which enabled significant improvements in fire-fighting technology and tactics. He also improved the hand-operated fire engines of the time by making them smaller, more mobile and more powerful, and he developed the series connection of several pumps to increase the pressure in order to achieve a greater range for the water jet. In 1690, together with his son, he was the author and illustrator of the Brandspuiten-boek, the first manual for fire fighting.
Johann Lingelbach, Adriaen van de Velde and Eglon van der Neer...
Category
Dutch School 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Chalk
$1,810 Sale Price
20% Off
A View of Riseholme, 18th Century English Signed Watercolour Landscape
Located in London, GB
Watercolour on paper, signed and entitled bottom right
Image size: 12 x 10 inches (30.5 x 25.5 cm)
Category
18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
19th century view of Raglan Castle by English artist David Hall McKewan
By David Hall Mckewan
Located in Philadelphia, PA
David Hall McKewan
(English, 1817-1873)
Raglan Castle
Watercolor on paper, 9 x 13 inches (sight)
David Hall McKewan studied watercolor painting under David Cox (the elder) and exhib...
Category
Realist 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
William Lock (1767-1847) Brown Ink on Paper of General D'Arblay & Friends
Located in Bristol, CT
Art Sz: 6 1/2"H x 5 3/4"W
Frame Sz: 9 1/2"H x 10"W
Provenance:
Sold at Sotheby's London July 7, 1983 lot 10.
William Lock the Younger 1767–1847
William Lock the Younger of Norbur...
Category
18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Ink, Pen
Portrait of a Young Man Original Charcoal and Pastel French 18th Century
Located in London, GB
French School
18th Century
Portrait of a Young Man
Charcoal and pastel on paper
Image size: 11 x 7 inches
Contemporary gilt frame
Category
Rococo 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Pastel
Wildlife painting of black and white tufted duck by enlightened british painter
Located in Milan, IT
Peter Paillou (c.1720 – c.1790) was a British artist best known for his paintings of birds, many of which were used as book illustrations. He gained repute in the 18th century as a natural history painter and illustrator. He was employed by two leading naturalists and antiquarians of the time, Taylor White (1701-1772) and Thomas Pennant (1726-1798). He illustrated the latter's British Zoology and decorated the hall at Downing, Pennant's house in Flintshire, with several pictures of birds...
Category
Realist 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Tempera, Watercolor
Young Man with a Sword, a Fist on his Hip, a drawing by Cornelis Saftleven
Located in PARIS, FR
Black chalk and white highlights on paper (originally washed in blue)
Monogrammed and dated 1630 on the right
This drawing, executed in black chalk and enhanced with white brushwor...
Category
Old Masters 18th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Paper, Chalk
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