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Sketchbook I
By Artur Markowicz
Located in London, GB
ARTUR MARKOWICZ 1872-1934
Podgórze (Poland) 1872-1934 Cracow (Polish)
Title: Sketchbook I
Category
1910s Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Color Pencil
Sketchbook II
By Artur Markowicz
Located in London, GB
ARTUR MARKOWICZ 1872-1934
Podgórze (Poland) 1872-1934 Cracow (Polish)
Title: Sketchbook II
Category
1910s Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Color Pencil
Florence Sketchbook of Frank Lloyd Wright (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
This is a limited edition facsimile of the manuscript sketchbook by Frank Lloyd Wright which served
Category
Early 20th Century Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Paper
Miss J Board - ca 1830 Album, Graphite Study Sketchbook
Located in Corsham, GB
We think that this sketchbook was done by the sister of Catherine Board, whose collection we
Category
19th Century Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Paper
Embossed Leather 19th Century Sketchbook with Graphite Drawings and Watercolours
Located in Corsham, GB
An interesting 19th century album containing some very fine graphite drawings and watercolours as well as various prints. Please message for further images. With an embossed leather ...
Category
19th Century Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Paper
Sketchbook Page with Figures and Anatomical Details in Pencil on Paper - Germany
Located in Soquel, CA
Sketchbook Page with Figures and Anatomical Details in Pencil on Paper
Drawings of a man at a desk
Category
1880s Realist Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Paper, Pencil
H 9.75 in W 12.5 in D 1 in
Jean Hillemacher (1889-1914), Lot Of 43 Drawings
Located in SAINT-OUEN-SUR-SEINE, FR
Jean Hillemacher (1889-1914)
Second Grand Prix de Rome 1913
Lot of three sketchbooks: 43 drawings
Category
Early 20th Century Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Paper
An Original Pair Of English Watercolor/Sketches C. 1854, 1855, Ellen Dumbleton
Located in New Orleans, LA
Two original English watercolor/drawings circa 1854,1855, Ellen Dumbleton, from her sketchbook
Category
1850s English High Victorian Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Gesso, Glass, Giltwood, Paper
No Reserve
H 15.5 in W 16.5 in D 1.25 in
Study of the sleeping woman from "La méridienne"
By Jean François Millet
Located in Barbizon, FR
Study of the sleeping woman from “La meridienne”,
Black pencil drawing on paper (sketchbook
Category
19th Century Barbizon School Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Paper, Pencil
H 3.63 in W 5.2 in D 0.04 in
Standing Male Nude
By Frank Duveneck
Located in Fairlawn, OH
the sketchbook are in the collections of the Munson Williams Proctor Institute in Utica, New York and
Category
1890s Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Graphite
Study - Hon. Catherine Trevor, Viscountess Hampden with Verso Lady Anne Gower
By George Romney
Located in London, GB
composition.
It is likely, considering the large size of the sheet, that it was not from a sketchbook but
Category
1770s Old Masters Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Laid Paper, Pen
Set of English 19th Century Brass Fire Dogs in the Style of Ernest Gimson
By Ernest Gimson
Located in Wormelow, Herefordshire
17th-century fire dogs. Metalwork makes up a large proportion of pages in his sketchbooks.
Gimson also
Category
Early 19th Century Arts and Crafts Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Metal, Brass, Iron
H 24.61 in W 13.78 in D 25.6 in
Charles Clair, Sheep Feeding In A Barn
By Charles Clair
Located in Cheltenham, GB
sketchbook as he studied the various livestock. Tucked alongside the sheepfold to observe movement and form
Category
1910s Impressionist Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Herdsmen Resting /// Animal Art Landscape Farm Cows Bull Goat Work on Paper Ink
By (After) Nicolaes Berchem
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
sketchbooks full of drawings of classical ruins and pastoral imagery. His paintings, of which he produced an
Category
1790s Old Masters Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Ink
Portrait of Woman with Jewelry
Located in Fredericksburg, VA
kept a sketchbook (now in the New Orleans Museum of Art, Louisiana) and developed an interest in
Category
Mid-19th Century Hudson River School Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Painted Folk Art Four-Panel Floor Screen
Located in Troy, NY
oversized idea of the sketchbook or travelogue. One side of the screen shows an imaginary landscape, the
Category
Late 18th Century Italian Country Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Canvas
WOMAN WITH OPERA GLASSES (STUDY FOR "IN THE LOGE").
By Mary Cassatt
Located in Portland, ME
states: "About the time this picture was painted, Cassatt began to carry a small sketchbook in which she
Category
1870s Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Pencil
Meenakshi Temple Hindu Priest & Sacred Elephant Madurai Tamil India 1913 o/c
Located in Rancho Santa Fe, CA
college and kept notebooks and sketchbooks during the trip. He was inspired to become a painter by the
Category
1910s Other Art Style Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Die Bettler (The Beggars)
By Max Beckmann
Located in Fairlawn, OH
sketchbook.
Courtesy British Museum
Category
1920s Expressionist Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Lithograph
18th Century, Portrait of a Lady in a Tondo, red chalk drawing
Located in Paris, FR
other interesting fact is that the sheet was without doubt part of a sketchbook. The number 25 related
Category
1770s Baroque Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Chalk
The Citadel, Cairo, The Great Mosque of Muhammad Ali Pasha. American Orientalist
By Edwin Lord Weeks
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
long trips to India, taking not only paints and sketchbooks but a camera with which he made one of the
Category
Mid-19th Century Romantic Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
H 13.59 in W 10.04 in D 0.48 in
Travellers and Dogs in Landscape, Ruins on Right - Dutch Old Master oil painting
By Pieter Wouwerman
Located in London, GB
his sketchbooks before his death, so that his brother wouldn't be able to use them and cash in on his
Category
Mid-17th Century Old Masters Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Oil
William Drummond, Portrait Of Two Sisters, Watercolour
By William Drummond (artist)
Located in Cheltenham, GB
sister rests her right arm on a side table and holds a sketchbook on her lap. It appears to display a
Category
19th Century English School Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Study of Lucie (Ralph) Belin seated in an interior
By Edouard Vuillard
Located in Fairlawn, OH
perforated sketchbook
Image/sheet size: 6 5/8 x 4 7/16 inches
Frame size: 12 1/2 x 10 1/8 inches
Lucie Belin
Category
1910s Impressionist Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Graphite
Watercolor Painting of the Monseigneur News Theatre, by Reginald Marsh, 1925
By Reginald Marsh
Located in New York, NY
the Louvre in Paris and British museums. With a sketchbook always on hand, he wandered the streets of
Category
1920s Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Watercolor
19th Century Pair of Marble and Gilt Bronze Figural Candelabra by Eugène Hazart
By Eugene Bazart
Located in London, GB
shaped petals. One base signed in script.
Paris, Circa 1860
This model is recorded in the sketchbooks of
Category
19th Century French Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Marble, Ormolu
Untitled (Standing Female Nude)
By Boris Lovet-Lorski
Located in Fairlawn, OH
)
Sheet size: 9 5/16 x 5 13/16 inches
From a sketchbook created while the artist was working in Paris
Category
15th Century and Earlier Art Deco Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Graphite
Travellers near Ruins in a Landscape - Dutch Old Master art figural oil painting
By Pieter Wouwerman
Located in London, GB
which Philips Wouwerman burned his sketchbooks before his death, so that his brother wouldn't be able to
Category
Mid-17th Century Old Masters Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Oil
Castle Top Vinaigrette, Warwick Castle, Birmingham, 1847, Nathaniel Mills
By Nathaniel Mills
Located in London, GB
the Kenilworth Sketchbooks, which are now in the Turner Bequest. We have only seen this engraved
Category
1840s British Victorian Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Sterling Silver
Free Shipping
H 0.38 in W 1.45 in D 1.1 in
17th century Flemish Old master - Silenus feasting - Wine God
Located in Antwerp, BE
of Van Dyck's Italian sojourn is the so-called Italian Sketchbook, now at the British Museum, in
Category
17th Century Old Masters Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Battle Scene, Spanish American War
By Francis Luis Mora
Located in Greenwich, CT
Sketchbooks are at the Smithsonian and this work came out of one in the early 1990's from the estate. It is
Category
1890s Ashcan School Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Graphite
Egyptian Buffalo and Farmers. Camel Rider. Egypt.American Orientalist.Watercolor
By Edwin Lord Weeks
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
, taking not only paints and sketchbooks but a camera with which he made one of the earliest records of
Category
Mid-19th Century Romantic Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
H 10.04 in W 13.59 in D 0.48 in
19th Century 24 Watercolor and Gouache Portraits of Gentry, Dancers, Artist
Located in Lowestoft, GB
sketchbook. The pictures depict local gentry, dancers, musicians, artists and the like. A lot of the
Category
Late 19th Century English Late Victorian Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Paper
H 13 in W 9.45 in D 0.4 in
1869-86 The Novels of William Makepeace Thackeray
By William Makepeace Thackeray
Located in Bath, GB
plates. Collated, complete.
Volume XII, 'Paris Sketchbook and The Yellowplush Papers', published in 1869
Category
Late 19th Century British Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Paper
The Violinist (Antique Ellsworth Woodward Figurative Graphite Sketch Drawing)
By Ellsworth Woodward
Located in New Orleans, LA
sketchbook. Unsigned, but came as part of a portfolio of his drawings I acquired earlier this year, so is
Category
1890s Romantic Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Graphite
Tree and House - Charcoal by E.-L. Minet - Early 1900
By Emile-Louis Minet
Located in Roma, IT
state of preservation is excellent. The piece of paper comes from a sketchbook, and it presents some
Category
Early 1900s Naturalistic Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Pencil, Charcoal
H 4.93 in W 8.15 in D 0.04 in
Woman with Bicycle: Two Views
By Frank Duveneck
Located in Fairlawn, OH
(label)
Drawings from the sketchbook are in the collections of the Munson Williams Proctor Institute in
Category
1890s American Realist Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Graphite
The Chess Game (antique drawing by leader of "Southern Art Renaissance")
By Ellsworth Woodward
Located in New Orleans, LA
sketchbook. Signed EW - came as part of a portfolio of his drawings I acquired earlier this year.
Proudly
Category
1890s Romantic Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Graphite
Young Lady With Coiffure - Ellsworth Woodward Antique Graphite Drawing
By Ellsworth Woodward
Located in New Orleans, LA
from a sketchbook; I purchased it as part of a group of Woodward drawings. It isn't signed, but it is
Category
1890s Romantic Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Graphite
"La Fuite en Egypte (The Flight into Egypt), " Etching by Claude Lorrain
By Claude Lorrain
Located in Milwaukee, WI
satisfy his patrons, his pictures include gods, heroes, and saints, even though his sketchbooks contain
Category
1630s Old Masters Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Etching
"L'Apparition (The Vision), " an etching by Claude Lorrain
By Claude Lorrain
Located in Milwaukee, WI
include gods, heroes, and saints, even though his sketchbooks contain many drawings of the natural world
Category
1630s Old Masters Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Etching
H 18.375 in W 20.875 in
"Le Bouvier (The Cowherd), " Landscape Etching by Claude Gelle Le Lorrain
By Claude Lorrain
Located in Milwaukee, WI
satisfy his patrons, his pictures include gods, heroes, and saints, even though his sketchbooks contain
Category
1630s Old Masters Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Etching
"Les Chevres (The Goats), " Etching Landscape by Claude Gelle Le Lorrain
By Claude Lorrain
Located in Milwaukee, WI
though his sketchbooks contain many drawings of the natural world. Joachim van Sandrart, a German artist
Category
1630s Old Masters Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Etching
"Le Point de Bois (Rebecca & Eliezer), " etching by Claude Gellee (Le Lorrain)
By Claude Lorrain
Located in Milwaukee, WI
satisfy his patrons, his pictures include gods, heroes, and saints, even though his sketchbooks contain
Category
Mid-17th Century Old Masters Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Etching
"Scene de Brigands, " Landscape Etching signed by Claude Gellee (Le Lorrain)
By Claude Lorrain
Located in Milwaukee, WI
include gods, heroes, and saints, even though his sketchbooks contain many drawings of the natural world
Category
Mid-17th Century Old Masters Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Etching
"Le Patre et la Bergere (The Herdsman & Shepherdess), " Etching by Claude Gellee
By Claude Lorrain
Located in Milwaukee, WI
though his sketchbooks contain many drawings of the natural world. Joachim van Sandrart, a German artist
Category
Mid-17th Century Old Masters Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Etching
"La Danse Sous Les Arbes (The Country Dance), " Etching
By Claude Lorrain
Located in Milwaukee, WI
satisfy his patrons, his pictures include gods, heroes, and saints, even though his sketchbooks contain
Category
Mid-17th Century Old Masters Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Etching
"Etude d'Une Scene du Brigands (Study), " Etching by Claude Gellee (Le Lorrain)
By Claude Lorrain
Located in Milwaukee, WI
though his sketchbooks contain many drawings of the natural world. Joachim van Sandrart, a German artist
Category
Mid-17th Century Old Masters Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Etching
"Harbour Scene, " Engraving Landscape signed by Claude Gellee (Le Lorrain)
By Claude Lorrain
Located in Milwaukee, WI
though his sketchbooks contain many drawings of the natural world. Joachim van Sandrart, a German artist
Category
Mid-17th Century Old Masters Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Engraving
"Shepherd and Shepherdess Conversing in a Landscape "
By Claude Lorrain
Located in Milwaukee, WI
though his sketchbooks contain many drawings of the natural world. Joachim van Sandrart, a German artist
Category
Mid-17th Century Old Masters Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Etching
"La Danse Sous Les Arbes (The Country Dance), " Etching by Claude Lorrain
By Claude Lorrain
Located in Milwaukee, WI
satisfy his patrons, his pictures include gods, heroes, and saints, even though his sketchbooks contain
Category
Mid-17th Century Old Masters Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Etching
Cloak and Dagger (Ellsworth Woodward Antique Figurative Graphite Drawing)
By Ellsworth Woodward
Located in New Orleans, LA
from a sketchbook; I purchased it as part of a group of Woodward drawings. It isn't signed, but it is
Category
1890s Romantic Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Graphite
Study for a Seated Woman (by leader of "Southern Art Renaissance")
By Ellsworth Woodward
Located in New Orleans, LA
from a sketchbook; it is on paper, mounted to cardboard for stability, which can be trimmed. The paper
Category
1890s Romantic Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Ink
Jules Noel (1810-1881) Landscape with a fisherman, signed drawing
By Jules Noel
Located in Paris, FR
the Duke of Nemours, to whom he presented his sketchbooks, he received his first commission: His
Category
1860s Romantic Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Pencil
Jules Noel (1810-1881) Landscape with a manor and a traveler, signed drawing
By Jules Noel
Located in Paris, FR
Nantes. During a visit from the Duke of Nemours, to whom he presented his sketchbooks, he received his
Category
1860s Romantic Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Pencil
Sketch-book Page, Shoreham, Samuel Palmer, Late 19th Century
By Samuel Palmer (b.1805)
Located in London, GB
wrote in his 1824 sketchbook, 'whatever you do, guard against bleakness & grandeur and try for the
Category
Late 19th Century Victorian Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Paper, Graphite
Forest Idyll Allegory drawing
By Francis Luis Mora
Located in Greenwich, CT
print more strongly or his re-working elements for printing purposes. Some of our sketchbooks to which
Category
Early 20th Century American Realist Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Archival Paper, Graphite
La Port De Cannes, 1930. Vieux Port, French Riviera. Côte d'Azur. Paul Delvaux.
By Paul Delvaux
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
, drawings, sketchbooks and prints by Delvaux.
In 1981, Delvaux met Andy Warhol in Brussels, and Warhol made
Category
Early 20th Century Romantic Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
H 23.82 in W 33.27 in D 0.79 in
Two Portraits, American Impressionist, Double Sided Drawings on Paper, 1899
By Henry Bayley Snell
Located in Doylestown, PA
original sketchbook by the artist.
Provenance: Estate of the Artist; by family descent; private collection
Category
1890s American Impressionist Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Paper, Pencil
Autumn Landscape
By William Merritt Post
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
, collecting landscape motifs in his sketchbooks. Perhaps more so than any other American artist, he was
Category
Early 20th Century American Impressionist Antique Sketchbooks
Materials
Oil, Board
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On 1stDibs, there are several options of antique sketchbooks available for sale. Browse a selection of Impressionist versions of these works for sale today — there are 2 Impressionist examples available. These items have been produced for many years, with earlier versions available from the 18th Century and newer variations made as recently as the 20th Century. You can search the antique sketchbooks that we have for sale on 1stDibs by color — popular works were created in bold and neutral palettes with elements of beige, gray, orange and purple. These artworks have been a part of the life’s work for many artists, but the versions made by Artur Markowicz, Edgar Degas, Nicholas André Monsiaux and Theodore Robinson are consistently popular. The range of these distinct pieces — often created in pencil, paper and ink — can elevate any room of your home.
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