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[Advertising Art] Watercolor of Toddlers Wearing Bonnets and Berets and Four Juvenile Pocketbooks

By: N/A

Price: $375.00

Seller ID: 002792

Condition: Fine

A delightful and colorful advertising campaign proof done with watercolors, circa 1940. The painting shows toddlers in varied headwear. Alternatively, this might have served as a proof for a trade catalogue. The picture is mounted and matted. The picture itself is 13.5 by 8.25 inches, and with the mat, 22 by 17 inches.
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[Advertising Art] Watercolor of Colorful Christmas Ornaments

By: N/A

Price: $425.00

Seller ID: 002793

Condition: Fine

A delightful and colorful advertising campaign proof done with watercolors, circa 1940. The painting shows many tree ornaments -- a Santa, a candy cane, a snow man, animals, etc. It is a feast for the eyes. Alternatively, this might have served as a proof for a trade catalogue. The picture is mounted and matted. The picture itself is 14 by 9 inches, and with the mat, 22 by 17 inches.
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Image for Illustrated Plate Honoring Henry Garnet, Convicted and Executed for Complicity in the Gunpowder Plot, with Original Ink Vignettes and Mounted Cameo Portrait of Garnet

Illustrated Plate Honoring Henry Garnet, Convicted and Executed for Complicity in the Gunpowder Plot, with Original Ink Vignettes and Mounted Cameo Portrait of Garnet

By: N/A

Price: $350.00

Seller ID: 003178

Condition: Fine

N.d., nineteenth century. The miniature vignettes in the margins are very finely rendered, with images of the Tower of London and three other buildings, Garnet hanging in a public square, a group of pigrims, and four skulls and crossbones. The Gunpowder Plot was a Catholic Jesuit conspiracy to assassinate James I in 1605. Although Garnet, a Jesuit priest opposed to violent action, had sought to foil the plot, he felt obliged not to divulge its existence to civil authorities when it was revealed to him in a confessional, and as someone for decades held in suspicion by the government, he was ...
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[Grand Tour Souvenir] Roma. 18th Century Miniature Leporello with Ten Views of Rome, mostly of ruins

By: N/A

Price: $2,500.00

Seller ID: 005984

Binding: Vellum

Condition: Very Good

Sublime, very finely detailed and beautiful miniature views of Rome and its ruins, done with pen-and-ink and wash. Oblong miniature, 40 by 62 mm, stretching to about 63 cm. Vellum binding with painted decoration. Views include Temple of Vesta, Vespasian's Arch, the pyramid, St. Peters, etc. Each is mounted on brown painted paper, which has ruling providing addtiional framing. This is a manifestly exquisite and unique Grand Tour souvenir. Soiling on the vellum, and light wear besides.
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World War One Tabernacle with Intricate Inlay and Marquetry Work: Wereld Oorlog's Gedenkenis 1914-15-16

By: N/A

Price: $2,750.00

Publisher: Belgium presumed, 1916 or 1917

Seller ID: 003594

Condition: Very Good

A highly unusual piece, probably one-of-a-kind, and as a memorial to those who sacrificed up to then in the First World War, uncommon in its general conception -- one will not find a lot of examples of artwork that is somewhat similar to this piece either. Large, measuring closed 81 by 54 cm. Each of two panels or doors is 69 by 27 cm and these open to reveal additional decoration. The doors on the outside have ten place names written with inlay running in diagonal zigzags: Vlaanderen, Antwerpen, Mechelen, Leuven, Namen, Zaleszoziki, Dunaburc, Salonika, Kaukasus and Yolmein. In between t...
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[Saleman's Sample Album] Méry Hungarian Industry-Arts Budapest

By: N/A

Price: $1,750.00

Seller ID: 005145

Binding: Hardcover. String ties.

Condition: Very Good

Probably a salesman's sample album showing original designs for napkins or handkerchiefs, all with decorative, generally colorful and representational artwork. N.d., circa 1930s. Oblong album, 29 by 34 cm. 17 samples, including the one on the front cover, and one sample which is essentially repeated, with minor variations. Stylistically there is considerable variety, from folk art-ish and cartoon-ish to more fluid and fluent Art Deco stylized imagery. We don't know whether Méry was the artist or the name of the company, or both, but clearly these are samples of commercial artwork. That ...
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Sketchbook of 24 Pages of Pencil Drawings of Buildings, Some Landmarks, and Actors, Authors, etc.

By: N/A

Price: $400.00

Seller ID: 004679

Binding: Half Morocco, Marbled Boards

Condition: Very Good

N.d., circa 1880s. Oblong 8vo. 17.5 by 25 cm. The drawings are rendered generally with great precision. Some, perhaps, most, are probably copied from prints or other works. Actors portrayed include "Genial" John McCullough, a popular American tragedian, John Howard Payne, English actress Lilian Adelaide Neilson (in memorium), Edwin Booth (we believe), Edwin Forrest, Thomas Hamblin (as "Coriolanus") Included among the buildings are a home of Harriet Beecher Stowe, Cawdor Castle, Mark Twain's birthplace and the house where John Wilkes Booth died. Perhaps the most charming of the architect...
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[Saleman's Sample Album] Méry Hungarian Industry-Arts Budapest

By: N/A

Price: $2,400.00

Seller ID: 004846

Binding: Hardcover. String ties.

Condition: Very Good

Probably a salesman's sample album showing original designs for napkins or handkerchiefs, all with decorative, generally colorful and representational artwork. N.d., circa 1930s. Oblong album, 29 by 34 cm. 20 samples, including the one on the front cover. Stylistically there is considerable variety, from folk art-ish and cartoon-ish to more fluid and fluent Art Deco stylized imagery. We don't know whether Méry was the artist or the name of the company, or both, but clearly these are samples of commercial artwork. That is not pejorative, for the images are delightful, evocative and even ...
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Untitled [The Adventure of the Balloons in Upside Down Land]

By: Alberin (?)

Price: $1,850.00

Seller ID: 002913

Binding: NA

Condition: Fine

Untitled collection of nine original watercolors that tell the story of juvenile balloons sold at a carnival and released into the air, where they find their way into "Upside Down Land". N.d., circa 1946, or in the immediate aftermath of World War Two. The order of the pictures telling the story -- there is no text -- is subject to debate, and one can not be certain that these illustrations represent the fully intended story, whether or not it was ever fully realized by the artist and storyteller. In any case, the balloons lose themselves with the manifold temptations of a candy sho...
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[Homemade Book] To My Valentine Collection of Five Illustrated Leaves on Card

By: Anonymous

Price: $150.00

Seller ID: 002789

Binding: Unbound

Condition: Very Good

Winsome collection of manuscript color illustrations, and light text, for part of a children's story. N.d., circa 1920s. The first card, or what is presumed to be so, bears the legend, "To My Valentine", with the name of "Ann Warren Stewart", written on a mailbox. Since Ann is a character in these drawings, we can assume she was not the author or illustrator but rather perhaps a recipient or dedicatee. The artwork is in the style, loosely, of Mabel Lucie Attwell or the Sally Dick and Jane readers. While it is simple, and perhaps even a touch naive, it is also very polished and almost cert...
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Sketchbook with 45 scenes, mostly landscapes and views, mostly rendered with color pencils

By: Atkinson, J. Clayton

Price: $500.00

Seller ID: 004777

Binding: Cloth Binder

Condition: Very Good

Lovely country landscapes, panaromas and cottages drawn by a sure hand with a real Impressionistic panache. N.d., circa 1900, based on the kind of album binder used. 4to. 27 by 19 cm. Most of the illustrations are done directly on the paper in the album, with some loose or attached via slits in the backing paper. And the vast majority are most of the page or one to a page, with a few pages with two illustrations. Place captions or short titles abound, although they are not always fully readable. There are mountain views, bridges, rivers, lakes, churches, gardens, streams, forests, grove...
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Selection of Poetry from Various Authors

By: Bartlett, Joseph

Price: $2,000.00

Publisher: 1821

Seller ID: 004672

Binding: Hardcover. Leather spine.

Condition: Good

A manuscript notebook with lovely original folk art oil paintings on both boards and two watercolors within! 4to. 30.5 by 19.5 cm. Unpaginated, 18 leaves of wove paper with content, followed by a few blanks. Watercolored title page with American eagle atop an orb and pedestal, and a beautiful painting of ships bearing the American flag near a lighthouse perched on a rocky spit and a cape house beyond. The paintings on the boards are what strike us as the most unusual though, especially because the medium is oils. One is of a windmill and a pastoral setting, the other, a cow drinking at a...
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Chesa Dr. Ruppanner Samedan

By: Bernhard, Lucie (1894 - ?)

Price: $675.00

Publisher: Samedan, Switzerland,

Seller ID: 002915

Binding: Vellum

Condition: Fine

N.d., circa 1930s. Two poems about a Sanitarium opened by Dr. Rupanner in Samedan, which is close to St. Moritz in the southeast corner of Switzerland, accompanied by watercolor vignettes. The title page is given over to a fine watercolor of the grand four story house, which housed the hospital. It would appear that Bernhard was a patient in the hospital, and in gratitude she indited the poem and decorated its four pages with vignettes that echo the subjects brought up in the verses. The poems themselves are written in a neat, however inscrutable, hand, with a cursive style no longer in f...
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Silhouettes Militaires. De la Révolution et du 1er Empire Collection Bernard-Franck

By: Brisquet

Price: $6,000.00

Seller ID: 005001

Binding: NA

Condition: Very Good

An magnificent collection of 20 military costume mixed media oil paintings that were once part of a major French collection of militariana. N.d., 1830 to 1860 -- these were nostalgic portraits created during the reigns of Louis Philippe and Louis Napoleon (Napoleon III). Brisquet, the artist, apparently was set-up on the esplanade by les Invalides, certainly a logical place for a creator of military-related bric-a-brac to set up shop, so to speak, and seek to sell his wares. A variety of sizes, ranging in height between 34 and 45 cm, and width, 10 to 29 cm. We have 21 panels in all, with o...
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The Yule Log. A Carol.

By: Crowquill, Alfred [Alfred Henry Forrester], illustrator (1804-1872)

Price: $2,000.00

Publisher: London,

Seller ID: 003476

Binding: Decorated Cloth

Condition: Near Fine

Original pen and ink and wash drawing of Olde English hamlet, snow and chidren, plus original verse by Crowquill. N.d., circa 1840s. 33 by 22 cm, and with matting, 51 by 41 cm. There are four staves without musical notation. Clearly the intention was to have a composer set Crowquill's words to music. Wonderful lyrics, with a powerfully evocative drawing on top, and the music staves and verses are laid over a backdrop of snowflakes and a gray brown that represents both the earth or the wintry sky.
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Original George Cruikshank Watercolor of a Seventeenth Century Cavalier

By: Cruikshank, George (1792-1878)

Price: $1,450.00

Seller ID: 002621

Binding: N.A.

Condition: Fine

A colorful portrait of a mid-17th century cavalier by the master illustrator, George Cruikshank. N.d., circa 1830. Other than the man holding a long pike in his gloved hand, he might also have stepped out of "The Three Musketeers". The cavalier guard is flamboyantly dressed, with the wide brimmed, floppy cockaded hat of the day and flairing boots with long spurs attached. Measuring 26 by 15 cm, 10.5 by 5.75 inches. On a board, and signed by Cruikshank. The edges of the board are worn.
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Original Signed Drawings by Robert Cruikshank [for] Chronicles of the Bastille

By: Cruikshank, Robert

Price: $12,500.00

Publisher: London, 1845

Seller ID: 003200

Binding: Full Morocco. Cloth Slipcase.

Condition: Fine

4to. 27 by 20 cm. The Chronicles of the Bastille, Louis Alexis Chamerovzow, first appeared in 1845 and featured Cruikshank's drawings. The twelve signed watercolors here are dated 1844 or1845. Also, embedded into the back of the front cover is the steel plate used to make the steel engraved title page of the novel. As a title page an engraved copy of this plate is used. On the backs, and sometimes in the margins, are light pencil notes that serve as captions for the watercolors and provide information as to placement in the book. It is unknown whether these notes were preliminary to the...
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La Belle Eugénie

By: Elder, Marc. Illustrations by Guy Arnoux

Price: $450.00

Publisher: Paris, Les Éditions Pittoresques: 1929

Seller ID: 005908

Binding: Wraps

Condition: Very Good

With an original signed full page watercolor by Arnoux of eighteenth century man wearing a red coat. Accompanied by an inscription to Ralph Esmerian, "qui me fait l'honneur d'aimer mes dessins, et le plaisir de me le dire." No. 128 of 428, from tranch with paper of vélin de Rives. 4to. 26.5 by 19.5 cm. 179 pp. Pochoir plates, and pochoir illustrations at start of each chapter. Wraps with light soiling, closed tear by upper front joint, vertical crease lines on spine. Generally clean inside. Without original glassine.
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Drawing of Skaters

By: Ford, Henry Justice (1860-1941)

Price: $500.00

Seller ID: 003456

Condition: Near Fine

N.d., circa 1900. The pen and ink drawing is 11 by 18 cm, oblong. Depicted are a few skaters in the foreground, one woman brought to her knees, and a sketchy crowd in the background. Not to be mistaken for the automaker industrialist who lived during the same time, the English artist Ford is best remembered for illustrations in the popular Andrew Lang colored fairy book series. Besides doing illustrations for books by Scott and Kipling, among many others, Ford did free-standing painting, some of which today hangs in museum collections. Matted. Light soiling by the edges.
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Caricature Self-Portrait "Little Breeches"

By: Ford, Henry Justice (1860-1941)

Price: $700.00

Seller ID: 003457

Condition: Near Fine

N.d., circa 1900. The pen and ink, lightly tinted, drawing is 20 by 15 cm. It is an amusing self-portrait, all big blocky head, boots, and suspenders suspended over the artist's pate. Not really characteristic of this versatile artist's work, yet a splendid work of great economy and humor, somewhat in the vein of Edward Lear. Ford is best remembered today for illustrating the dozen Andrew Lang colored fairy book series, and next for illustrating works by Scott, Kipling and many others. He also did free-standing painting, and some of his work belongs now to museum collections. Matted.
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Category: Original Art