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18th Century Sketches and Etchings

Drawings and etchings featuring whimsical scenes and figures, combining elements of comedy and drama in a loose, expressive style.

Dido's death, draughtsman: Pietro Testa, 1622 - 1650, paper, pen, h 237 mm × w 302 mm
Dido's death, draughtsman: Pietro Testa, 1622 - 1650, paper, pen, h 237 mm × w 302 mm
235 assets in this story
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The Martyrdom of Saint Alexander of Bergamo. Dated: 1520/1524. Dimensions: overall (approximate): 27 x 19.8 cm (10 5/8 x 7 13/16 in.). Medium: pen and brown ink, squared with black chalk, on two joined sheets of laid paper. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Lorenzo Lotto.
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Studies for Groups of Walking Dressed Figures 1712-93 Francesco Guardi Italian. Studies for Groups of Walking Dressed Figures 338952
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Menelaus leaves for Crete and orders Aeneas to Helena. Draughtsman: Elias van Nijmegen. Dating: 1677 - 1755. Measurements: h 207 mm × w 160 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.
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The laundresses (Les laveuses). Dimensions: 44.3 cm x 30.3 cm, 22.2 cm x 15.2 cm, 20 cm x 14.5 cm. Museum: Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam. Author: FELICIEN ROPS.
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Inn interior with drunk visitors who refuse to pay, Eugène François de Block, 1822 - 1893 drawing Design for a print. paper. pencil inn, coffee-house, public house, etc.. customer. drunkard
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Study for 'Types de races algériennes'. Artist: Henri-Félix-Emmanuel Philippoteaux (French, Paris 1815-1884 Paris). Dimensions: sheet: 10 5/16 x 13 9/16 in. (26.2 x 34.4 cm). Date: 1830-86. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.
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Isabel Bishop, Unfinished Etching, 1975, etching, aquatint and wash on paper.
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Studies of a standing farmer with a stick. Draughtsman: Thomas Simon Cool. Dating: 1841 - 1870. Measurements: h 250 mm × w 157 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.
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Louis (de Vrome, 778-840) as a penitent. Design for a print, Lodewijk (de Vrome) as a penitent., draughtsman: Simon Fokke, c. 1722 - c. 1784, paper, h 82 mm × w 102 mm
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"Antoś Kącki Kątski na Resursie". unknown, draughtsman, cartoonist
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Six men in conversation, Hendrick Goudt, 1580 - 1650 drawing Study sheet of six men in conversation. paper. ink pen / brush physiognomy
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Figures in Theatrical Costumes n.d. Claude Gillot French. Figures in Theatrical Costumes 337196
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Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, The Adoration of the Magi, c. 1740, etching on paper.
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Sheet of Sketches. Artist: John Flaxman (British, York 1755-1826 London). Dimensions: Sheet: 8 5/8 x 8 1/2 in. (21.9 x 21.6 cm). Date: 1793. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.
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Los ensacados (Men in Sacks), pl. 8 from the series Losproverbios. Artist: Francisco Goya, Spanish, 1746-1828
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The Landing of Columbus. Date: ca. 1840. oil on canvas. Museum: Smithsonian American Art Museum. Christopher Columbus.
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Study for Events of the Life of Massaroni, an Italian Bandit 1823 Italy. Graphite, on ivory laid paper . Bartolomeo Pinelli
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Trial Scene, from Merchant ofVenice. Artist: Edwin Austin Abbey, American, 1852-1911, M.A. (HON.) 1897
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Three men in a painter's studio, Gerard ter Borch (II), 1631, draughtsman: Gerard ter Borch (II), Kampen, (possibly), Jun-1631, paper, h 115 mm × w 203 mm
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Storming a City 16th century Anonymous, Italian, 16th century Italian. Storming a City 341945
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The Market Place ca. 1884 Felix Octavius Carr Darley American. The Market Place 406020
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Three figures that edit rice and a Chinese dining part. Leaf 4 verso from a booklet of 10 blades from a sketchbook.
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Etching and copper engraving 'The Hundred Guest Leaf' by Rembrandt, on Japanese paper around 1648, showing figures and architectural ledge details.
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Tavik Frantisek Simon (1877-1942), was a Czech painter, etcher, and woodcut artist. Although based mainly in Europe, his extensive travels took him to Morocco, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), India, and Japan, images of all of which appear in his artistic work. He died in Prague in 1942. Largely ignored during the Communist era in Czechoslovakia, his work has received greater attention in recent years.
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Allegorical Figures of the Arts, Felice Giani, Italian, 1758-1823, Felice Giani, Italian, 1758-1823, Black chalk, pen and ink on paper, Five female figures with captions identifying them (in Italian) as Painting, Poetry, Sculpture, Architecture and Music., Italy, ca. 1800, figures, Drawing, Drawing
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Twee scene shipped from Komedie eunuchus van Terence, Bernard Picart (Workshop of), 1716 - 1718 print Left: Gnatho takes Pamphila at hand. Right: The Courtisane Thai receives a slave made girl from Athens. The bystanders react excitedly. The slaved Parmeno points to the girl. Amsterdam paper etching / engraving specific works of literature. slavery; serfs and the enslaved
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Farmers and Fisherman Working, 18th century. Francesco Guardi (Italian, 1712-1793). Pen and brown ink over black chalk; sheet: 9 x 12.1 cm (3 9/16 x 4 3/4 in.).
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Bustes of seven men and women ..
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Study for Excise Office, Broad Street, from Microcosm of London. Augustus Charles Pugin (English, born France, 1762-1832); Thomas Rowlandson (English, 1756-1827). Date: 1807-1810. Dimensions: 197 × 261 mm. Graphite on ivory wove paper. Origin: England. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.
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Folio 13 mill powered by water from siphon, Edificij et machine MS, Martini, Francesco di Giorgio, 1439-1502, Brown ink and wash on paper, between ca. 1475 and ca. 1480
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Christ and the Canaanite Woman. Artist: Giovan Gioseffo dal Sole (Italian, Bologna 1654-1719 Bologna). Dimensions: 14 3/4 x 10 3/8in. (37.5 x 26.4cm). Date: 1654-1719. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.
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'Sea Port (A Fantastic Port)'. France, 1737. Dimensions: 27,5x32,7 cm. Museum: State Hermitage, St. Petersburg. Author: Charles-Joseph Natoire.
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Titiro and Messo. Dated: 1640. Dimensions: overall: 6.5 x 9 cm (2 9/16 x 3 9/16 in.). Medium: pen and brown ink with brown wash on laid paper. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Johann Wilhelm Baur.
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Love to Virtue confirmed by Wisdom. Draughtsman: Jurriaan Andriessen. Dating: 22-Apr-1804. Measurements: h 108 mm × w 197 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.