Antique Sketch

A light cane rests in his left hand, and a pale cloak is folded over his left arm, its end trailing down behind him to the ground. The ground is sketched in with a few lines of hatch...

The femme fatale character of Salammbô inspired many Symbolist artists. A plaster sketch of this sculpture model is preserved in the collections of the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dijon.

He was an active member of the Savage Club and served as Chairman of the Langham Sketching Club in 1914. We ship internationally, tracked.

English, circa 1835 Dimensions: H: 44 in / 111 cm W: 108.5 in / 275 cm D: 20.5 in / 51.5 cm This low bookcase shares several stylistic similarities with others produced by Gi...

Vogt was truly “on the road”, sleeping in barns, hotels, or the very homes he sketched, living the life of an artist-laborer paid in room and board or modest sums: some drawings cost...

Its title page promises biographical sketches of the public characters of Europe, with an account of the Congress of Vienna, the escape from Elba, Waterloo and the exile to Saint Hel...

Its title page promises biographical sketches of the public characters of Europe and carries the story through the Congress of Vienna, the escape from Elba, Waterloo and the exile to...

Set of six vintage pencil drawings/sketches of various animals and birds undertaken by Righetti for his sculptures in bronze including a boar, an elephant, two cassowaries, an ocelot...

Holsing describes the 1877 Lenbachhaus sketch as an intermediate stage between these two treatments.

The series "Political Sketches" is the most important series by Doyle. It includes 683 lithographs published by Thomas McLean between 1829 and 1841.

The series "Political Sketches" is the most important series by Doyle. It includes 683 lithographs published by Thomas McLean between 1829 and 1841.

We are inclined to attribute its execution to Giovan Andrea Sirani (Bologna, 1610–1670), one of his finest students and an exceptional draftsman—so much so that the master even entru...

Slender, tall trees rise on both sides, a couple walks at left, a figure stands on the steps, and in the right foreground one man sits sketching while another stands beside him. Abo...

His obsession with capturing dancers in motion became so great that he developed a lighted pen in order to sketch in darkened theaters during performances. In the early 1900s, Oppler...

When not able to paint in St Peter's he made sketches around the city. The present watercolour is typical of Roberts' on-the-spot studies.

The background, treated with a more diffuse atmosphere, opens the scene onto a snowy landscape and sketched architecture, enhancing the sense of depth while maintaining the primacy o...

After the death of his wife in 1931 Arnesby Brown retired to Norfolk making only occasional sketching trips out of the county. His work, however, was still highly regarded and he was...

His father actively encouraged him in his art and he would often accompany him on sketching trips in the Severn Valley, near where he lived.

His wife was the daughter of a local farmer with extensive farmland in Tuxford and he often spent time there sketching horses and other animals. As well as working in Nottinghamshire...

The sheet records the state of European knowledge of the continent at the time: the coasts and the north are closely named, while the lakes of the east are only sketched and much of ...

North Wales was his favourite sketching ground and, of the 19 paintings he exhibited at the Royal Academy between 1846 and 1875, ten depicted Welsh subjects.

There are similar designs to our pendant, see for example this sketch of a sea creature, Inv. No. E.3404-1919 The format, the quality of the execution and not least the motif sugges...

Stanford White (1853-1906) Sketches of Two Sofas and Chair Graphite on paper, c. 1890 Unsigned Provenance: Davis Galleries, 1963, New York Davis Galleries organized the important 196...

Unsigned, see the last photo for reference to the original sketch. Dimensions: 35.5" Height: X 27" Wide X 11" Depth Germany, 1900 20ct40601

., 11" x 9-3/16", limited to 1100 numbered signed copies this being copy #473, with an original ink sketch of the mock turtle and gryphon signed with monogram and dated 1927, illustr...

With More than Two Hundred Illustrations, From Photographs and Original Sketches, of the Prairies, Deserts, Mountains, Rivers, Mines, Cities, Indians, Trappers, Pioneers, and Great N...

It was drawn by William Harvey from a sketch by J. Jackson and engraved by Thomas Abiel Prior, and the plate is lettered "Newcastle, from the South West".

Where previously Grose had been able to spend his summers visiting and sketching ancient sites, he was now obliged to attend his regiment in various training camps.

The Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia ordered a series of sketches to be used in their landscape painting classes and the Brera Academy in Milan requested two large canvases.

He soon joined with Joseph De Camp in forming a summer sketch class in Richfield, Ohio. Bacher and De Camp also planned the Cleveland Room for a major loan exhibition in Detroit that...

He returned to the region several times, working up his sketches and watercolours into finished oils in his Munich studio, many of them sold to England and America.

From the 1950s he returned to large abstract paintings, realising many of the abstract compositions he had sketched out on a small scale in the previous decade, when materials had be...

Notes: Likely the preparatory oil sketch for the larger version, sold Bonhams Fine Paintings sale, 7th December 2010, Lot 18 The Royal Review, Edinburgh, 1905 By Robert Gemmell Hutc...

His reputation developed particularly through scenes of rural and domestic life, some of which circulated as lithographs under the title Walter Goodall’s Rustic Sketches. The presen...

Vasseur explains, the apparent simplicity of her prints resulted from considerable preparation: she developed compositions through pencil studies and sometimes watercolor, moving fro...

& Metzger, R., (1989), Vincent van Gogh, Cologne. p. 22 (illustrated) Hulsker, J., (1996), The New Complete Van Gogh: Paintings, Drawings, Sketches, J.M. Meulenhoff

National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, Admiralty plan of the Camelion class wooden screw sloop Reindeer (1866), dated December 20, 1861, inscribed “Sketch shewing the reduced bowsprit,...

Where previously Grose had been able to spend his summers visiting and sketching ancient sites, he was now obliged to attend his regiment in various training camps.

He soon joined with Joseph De Camp in forming a summer sketch class in Richfield, Ohio. Bacher and De Camp also planned the Cleveland Room for a major loan exhibition in Detroit that...

Emile Reiber (1826-1893), who worked at Christofle as chief draughtsman, also made sketches for Deck. His fame won by long works is imposed at the Universal Exhibitions in which he p...

Extra info about the artwork : Title: ” sketch study ” Médium: oil on canvas Signature: not signed Provenance: private collection Paris Dimensions canvas: 24 cm x 32 cm Dimen...

The Old Pond French Impressionist, early 20th century, unsigned (most likely a working preparatory sketch) oil on board, unframed board: 13 x 16 inches Provenance: private collection...

LACMA, for example, catalogues Kuniyoshi’s Sketch of Demons Amusing the King of Hell explicitly as a “preparatory sketch for woodblock print; ink on paper.”

Often the backs of these sketches are covered with notations, in English and German.

A quiet coastal town emerges delicately along the horizon, its church tower and clustered buildings softly sketched against an expansive sky and still water.

Brabazon was also greatly admired by the eminent critic John Ruskin who saw him as the natural heir to JMW Turner, the two went on a sketching tour of France in 1880. Brabazon's wo...

In very good condition with a small sketch of a Dutch heraldic shield and sash on the verso.

A rare pair of original First World War pencil sketches by the distinguished French artist, engraver and later banknote and postage stamp designer Henri-Lucien Cheffer, executed in F...

He was also a member of the Liver Sketching Club.

For the latter, he frequently worked from sketches made during visits to London Zoo. Wardle worked successfully in oils, watercolours and pastels.

The arms are flexed, the hands in front of the body, hidden from view, while the head turns to the right to appear in profile. In the sketch on the reverse, the face is clearly descr...

During a student-led sketching class she quickly learned to interpret and understand forms, which she said "helped me in my later portrait painting of young, active children" Student...

She was even able to attend rehearsals in Paris for "Le Spectre de la Rose," an experience that resulted in a beautiful series of sketches. Several of these sketches depict Nijinsky ...

The drawing possesses the quiet elegance characteristic of nineteenth-century expedition sketches, intended to record places before the widespread use of photography.

Figures and surroundings seem to merge into one another, giving the painting a spontaneous and almost sketch-like quality. The loosely defined forms and deliberately abbreviated fig...

His visits to Naples, Pompeii, and Paestum in 1838 and 1839 proved particularly influential: alongside ancient frescoes and architecture, Hansen carefully studied and sketched excava...

In 1858, he was accompanied by fellow arist Carl Haag - the two often sketched together, particularly in Cairo. In 1870, Goodall stayed in Saqqara and focused specifically on sketchi...

This present work is a rare preparatory oil sketch for one of his greatest works, Guarding the Palace, 1888 (Sothebys, Paris, October 30, 2018, lot 24).

Leliman's album of architectural sketches, 1865 to 1866. The plate is titled in the designer's own lettering 'Dorps-Spoorwegstation' (village railway station), and J.

N. Godefroy's unbuilt sketch design for a new town hall at Breukelen, with elevations, a section and three plans, an uncoloured lithograph from J.