Paper Drawings

Silvio Gambini Italy, 1913 Study of Wrought Iron Gate Drawing on Paper Original wooden Art Nouveau frame Sign by Artist in Lower Right Paper measurements: 27.5x39 Frame size: 77....

Watercolour by Henri Joseph Harpignies ( 1819-1916). Nice watercolour drawing by Henri Joseph Harpignies (1819-1916), nicely framed. Watercolour: H: 14cm , W: 24cm Frame: h: 28,5cm,...

Elizabeth O'Neil Verner framed dry point etching of St. Phillips Church Steeple, Charleston, SC. Early 20th Century

Superb lithograph under frame on the theme of Christianity depicting a nun in Carmelite dress, haloed, holding in her hands a crucified Christ and a bouquet of white and golden roses. A rosary is also visible on the left. The portrait is framed by two columns and an arch. We read the inscriptions: "Je veux passer mon ciel à faire du bien sur la Terre" ("I want to spend my heaven doing good on Earth") and "Sainte Thérèse de l'Enfant-Jésus" ("Saint Thérèse...

Album of travel drawings, including 38 views of Switzerland and Italy (Lugano, Geneva...), some colored Embossed red leather binding Good general condition, missing pages, wears an...

Very nice pastel on paper featuring a young girl noblewoman. This painting, never before on the market, comes from a private collection and is beautified by an impressive XVIII Cent...

A contemporary pencil drawing of a woman. This piece is framed in a metal frame covered with glass and signed at the bottom. Dimensions: 24.25 18.25" 1" deep.    

Walter Shirlaw (1838-1909) Study for decorative panel Pencil and watercolor on paper mounted on paperboard Measures: 62.5 x 74 x 5 cm (with frame) 50.5 x 62 (without the frame) Signed in the circle lower right Born near Glasgow in Scotland, Walter Shirlaw settled with his family in New York in 1841, when he was two or three years old. As a young boy, he took night classes at the National Academy of Design, and first exhibited his work there in 1861. The first years of his career were spent as an engraver at the American Bank-Note Company, while at the same time attempting to establish himself as a painter. He later moved to Chicago, where he continued to work as an banknote engraver and also taught art at the Chicago Academy of Design. In 1870, at the relatively late age of thirty-two, Shirlaw travelled to Europe to study. Prevented from settling in Paris by the Franco-Prussian War, he instead studied in Munich, where he joined the small group of American painters working in the city, including Frank Duveneck and William Merrit Chase...

Beautiful, evocative Pencil Drawing Still Life with Flowers and Butterfly Early 20th century Signed at lower right The painting is embellished by a beautiful nineteenth-century la...

Four male nude drawings from life by V. Geoffray in the late 19th century. These academic drawings of the nude, called académies, were the basic building block of academic education, as it was practiced in France in the 19th century. They were executed in the studio, where a live model...

A rare study of a table lamp, drawn with pencil on vellum, by Robert Gerlach from circa 1915. We can assume that the materials would be brass and glass. Whether the drawing was actu...

This is a rare set of 5 drawings concerning the Free Masons Lodge on the Schwind Gasse number 8, in the 4th district of Vienna. The drawings were made in ...

The 5th drawing in the series, Free Mason Lodge, Schwind Gasse number 8. Listing- 4 working drawings, Free Masons, Lodge, 1930 There you will find more inf...

Pair of 19th-century Italian academic charcoal drawings. These vividly rendered drawings are classical studies of the male nude figure; one depicts an artist's model and the other a ...

This black and white etching by Almery -Lobel Riche is in a custom gold leaf frame with deep cut beveled silk mat. The etching is of woman leaning over cha...