Artistic Drawings of Objects

Illustrations of decorative items such as door handles and harps, emphasizing craftsmanship with watercolor and graphite techniques.

Details of an angler's costume, draughtsman: Simon Andreas Krausz, 1770 - 1825, paper, brush, h 292 mm × w 280 mm

Door Handle. Dated: c. 1937. Dimensions: overall: 28.2 x 21.1 cm (11 1/8 x 8 5/16 in.). Medium: graphite on paperboard. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Mildred Ford.

Harp. Dated: c. 1939. Dimensions: overall: 36.4 x 28.7 cm (14 5/16 x 11 5/16 in.). Medium: watercolor and graphite on paper. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Grace Thomas.

Paul Ward, Scrimshaw, c 1937 Scrimshaw

Birch Bark Cape Collar. Dated: 1935/1942. Dimensions: overall: 19.8 x 14.1 cm (7 13/16 x 5 9/16 in.). Medium: graphite and colored pencil on paper. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Charles Charon.

Bonnet. Dated: c. 1936. Dimensions: overall: 30.9 x 22.9 cm (12 3/16 x 9 in.) Original IAD Object: 10 1/2" wide. Medium: watercolor and graphite on paperboard. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Jessie M. Benge.

Gun Holster. Dated: c. 1936. Dimensions: overall: 35.1 x 27.5 cm (13 13/16 x 10 13/16 in.). Medium: watercolor, graphite, and pen and ink on paper. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Eva Fox and Harry Mann Waddell.

Flat-iron Holder. Dated: c. 1938. Dimensions: overall: 22.7 x 28.9 cm (8 15/16 x 11 3/8 in.) Original IAD Object: 9 3/8" long; 3/4" high. Medium: graphite on paperboard. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Filippo Porreca.

Details of an angler's costume, draughtsman: Simon Andreas Krausz, 1770 - 1825, paper, brush, h 292 mm × w 280 mm

Bonnet. Dated: c. 1936. Dimensions: overall: 30.6 x 23 cm (12 1/16 x 9 1/16 in.). Medium: watercolor, graphite, and gouache on paperboard. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Bessie Forman.

Maurice Van Felix, Match Safe, c 1940 Match Safe

Gold Beater's Sign. Dated: c. 1938. Dimensions: overall: 51 x 38 cm (20 1/16 x 14 15/16 in.) Original IAD Object: 30" high. Medium: watercolor, graphite, and colored pencil on paperboard. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Elmer G. Anderson.

Arthur P Reynolds, Cinch, c 1940 Cinch

Standing boy in oriental costume. Leaf 31 Recto from a sketchbook with 73 sheets.

Wilbur M Rice, Horseshoe Bonnet, 1935 1942 Horseshoe Bonnet

Eleanor Gausser, Rockingham Pitcher, c 1939 Rockingham Pitcher

Spit. Dated: c. 1938. Dimensions: overall: 35.5 x 27.9 cm (14 x 11 in.) Original IAD Object: 38" long. Medium: watercolor and graphite on paperboard. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Emile Cero.

Weather Vane. Dated: c. 1936. Dimensions: overall: 23 x 29 cm (9 1/16 x 11 7/16 in.) Original IAD Object: 47" wide. Medium: graphite on paperboard. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Bernard Westmacott.

Decorations of Szyszak from the 17th century in the collection of the Army Museum in 1921 - four views at the front; Rozbicka, Mieczys "(1891-1925); 1921 (not after 28.01.1921) (1921-00-00-1921-00-00);

James Dwyer, Spur, 1935 1942 Spur

Trivet. Dated: c. 1942. Dimensions: overall: 24.5 x 29.2 cm (9 5/8 x 11 1/2 in.). Medium: watercolor, graphite, and pen and ink on paperboard. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: William Roberts.

Naval Clapper. Dated: c. 1939. Dimensions: overall: 54.3 x 42.2 cm (21 3/8 x 16 5/8 in.) Original IAD Object: 12 7/8" high; 5 3/8" wide. Medium: watercolor, graphite and pen and ink on paperboard. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Albert Rudin.

Cap. Dated: c. 1936. Dimensions: overall: 16.2 x 12.3 cm (6 3/8 x 4 13/16 in.). Medium: graphite and watercolor on paper. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Jessie M. Benge.

Bag. Dated: c. 1941. Dimensions: overall: 50.8 x 40.8 cm (20 x 16 1/16 in.). Medium: watercolor, goauche, and graphite on paper. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: John Thorsen.

A brush drawing in black and gray, heighted with white on green primed paper showing an arm holding a dagger, a detail from Dürer's 'Suicide of Lucretia,' with visible corrections, dated 1508.

Spur. Dated: c. 1940. Dimensions: overall: 26.5 x 35.6 cm (10 7/16 x 14 in.). Medium: watercolor, graphite, and pen and ink on paper. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Raymond E. Noble.

Giacinto Capelli, Plate, 1935 1942 Plate

Trivet. Dated: c. 1939. Dimensions: overall: 22.6 x 28.5 cm (8 7/8 x 11 1/4 in.). Medium: graphite on paperboard. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Henry Granet.

Series of Six Anamorphic Animal Prints ca. 1700 Joseph Friedrich Leopold German. Series of Six Anamorphic Animal Prints 646659

Spur. Dated: c. 1941. Dimensions: overall: 26.7 x 35.7 cm (10 1/2 x 14 1/16 in.). Medium: watercolor, pen and ink, and graphite on paper. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Robert W. R. Taylor.

Bonnet. Dated: c. 1937. Dimensions: overall: 29.8 x 22.7 cm (11 3/4 x 8 15/16 in.). Medium: watercolor, graphite, and colored pencil on paper. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Fanchon Larzelere.

Dumb Iron. Dated: c. 1938. Dimensions: overall: 28.1 x 40.4 cm (11 1/16 x 15 7/8 in.). Medium: watercolor, colored pencil, and graphite on paperboard. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Alfonso Moreno.

Randolph F Miller, Detail of Confessional, c 1936 Detail of Confessional

Gerald Transpota, Spur, c 1938 Spur

Egyptian relief sculpture: Caught Ducks, Willem de Famars Testas, c. 1844 - c. 1896 drawing paper. ink. pencil pen piece of sculpture, reproduction of a piece of sculpture (+ Egyptian art). water-birds: duck Egypt

Horse harness. Draughtsman: Anton Mauve (mentioned on object). Dating: 1848 - 1888. Measurements: h 412 mm × w 250 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

Deraisme, Pierre -Georges (n.1859 - D.1932), Guine buckle Gui (main title), 1902. Graphite, watercolor and gouache on transparent vellum. Petit Palais, Museum of Fine Arts of the City of Paris.

Bonnet. Dated: c. 1937. Dimensions: overall: 35.7 x 24.4 cm (14 1/16 x 9 5/8 in.). Medium: watercolor and graphite on paper. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Mary E. Humes.

Giacinto Capelli, Plate, 1939 Plate

Peak Halyard Band. Dated: 1938. Dimensions: overall: 27.8 x 22.8 cm (10 15/16 x 9 in.). Medium: watercolor, colored pencil, gouache, and graphite on paperboard. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Paul Lauterbach.

Get Colon from the Sint -Pietersbasiliek (Colonna Santa), Nicolas Beatrizet, 1525 - 1565 print A ranked column with composite capital. Called the colonna Santa. The print is part of an album. paper engraving spiral or Solomonic column

Above is the chair, seen from the front, the legs and the fore part of the arm being omitted, at right. The seat is upholstered. The back is high oval with straw plaiting supported by the upper part of the back legs. The arms begin above, at the back, and end in the upper part of the front legs which have the shape of two calices, one in the other. Below and at right are two sketches for the curved arms. On the reverse is part of the architectural plan with the letters "C", "f, and the caption, written by the artist: "Loggia e sotto / stalla". Usual background. Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash on off-white laid paper. Date: ca. 1785-1790. Museum: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.

Charlemagne's sword, sheath and hilt. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Robert von Spalart's Historical Picture of the Costumes of the Principal People of Antiquity and of the Middle Ages, Chez Collignon, Metz, 1810.

Drawing, Two Women Seated on a Sea Wall, Cullercoats, England; Winslow Homer (American, 1836-1910); England; graphite, charcoal on cream wove paper; Overall: 7.9 x 17 cm (3 1/8 x 6 11/16 in.)

Sword of Childeric and Chrystal Globe Found in His Grave at Tournay, 5th century 1864 Jules-Ferdinand Jacquemart. Sword of Childeric and Chrystal Globe Found in His Grave at Tournay, 5th century. Gems and Jewels of the Crown. Jules-Ferdinand Jacquemart (French, Paris 1837-1880 Paris). 1864. Etching. Prints

Anemonies. Theodore Roussel; French, worked in England, 1847-1926. Date: 1897. Dimensions: 114 × 75 mm (image, trimmed within plate mark); 120 × 83 mm (sheet); 302 × 272 mm (mount). Color etching and aquatint on cream wove paper, tipped onto tan wove paper mount with lavis in black and graphite. Origin: England. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.

George Loughridge and Yolande Delasser, Crock, c 1937 1938 Crock

Clapper. Dated: c. 1940. Dimensions: overall: 35.5 x 27.8 cm (14 x 10 15/16 in.) Original IAD Object: 25" long; 8" wide. Medium: watercolor, graphite, and pen and ink on paperboard. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Hilda Olson.

Oxen Yoke. Dated: c. 1938. Dimensions: overall: 29.7 x 40.8 cm (11 11/16 x 16 1/16 in.). Medium: watercolor, graphite, pen and ink and heightening on paper. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Henry Waldeck.

Lyonet, Pieter, Dragonfly, verso - stamped, print, prints, height 163 mm, width 45 mm, 1706-07-21 - 1789-01-10, print maker, printmaker, 1716 - 1789, paper, papier, etching, etsen

George E Rhone, Tomahawk, c 1939 Tomahawk

Sprot by candlelight.

Parasol. Dated: 1935/1942. Dimensions: overall: 33.9 x 28.4 cm (13 3/8 x 11 3/16 in.). Medium: watercolor and graphite on paper. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Melita Hofmann.

Card Table. Dated: 1936. Dimensions: overall: 29.1 x 22.6 cm (11 7/16 x 8 7/8 in.) Original IAD Object: none given. Medium: watercolor, colored pencil, pen and ink, and graphite on paperboard. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Florence Neal.

Aloe macrocarpa Todaro (Aloe): finished drawing without details, Luigi Balugani, 1737-1770, Italian, undated, Watercolor and gouache over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper, Sheet: 15 15/16 × 12 5/16 inches (40.5 × 31.3 cm) and Binding: 16 1/4 inches (41.3 cm)

Figurehead: Eagle. Dated: c. 1937. Dimensions: overall: 25.9 x 42.7 cm (10 3/16 x 16 13/16 in.) Original IAD Object: 66" long. Medium: watercolor and graphite on paper. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Frances Cohen.

Powder Horn. Dated: c. 1936. Dimensions: overall: 29.5 x 22.8 cm (11 5/8 x 9 in.). Medium: watercolor, gouache, and graphite on paperboard. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: John Tarantino.

Pa. German Chalkware Mantel Ornament. Dated: c. 1937. Dimensions: overall: 29 x 22.8 cm (11 7/16 x 9 in.) Original IAD Object: 10 3/4" high. Medium: watercolor, graphite, and pen and ink on paperboard. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Mina Lowry.

Netherlands, Sheet from a flag book with flags from Europe, North Africa, Near and Far East, depicting the flag of, drawing, teken, paper, papier, drawings, tekeningen, height 265 mm, width 190 mm, draughtsman, tekenaar, 1669 - 1670, ink, inkt, watercolor (paint), waterverf

Image from the diary of Carl Johan Gethe, a cartographer on board the Gotha Leyon, which left Sweden on a three year trading expedition in 1746. Gethe's diary or Dagbok is titled: Dagbok hallen pa resan till Ost Indien begynt den 18 octobr: 1746 och slutad den 20 juni 1749 or 'Diary of a journey to East India begun on 18 October 1746 and ending June 20, 1749'. The Swedish East India Company (Swedish: Svenska Ostindiska Companiet or SOIC) was founded in Gothenburg, Sweden, in 1731 for the purpose of conducting trade with the Far East, and grew to become the largest trading company in Sweden during the 18th century. It closed in 1813.

Netherlands, Fifteen decorations at the Alliance Festival in Amsterdam in 1795, Image of the Freedom Tree planted in Amsterdam on Thursday 26 February, on the Revolution Square, formerly called the Dam and consecrated on Wednesday 4 March Ao. 1795, Freedom Tree consecrated on the Dam in Amsterdam, 4 March 1795, verso - stamped, The freedom tree, planted on 26 February on the Dam, formerly the Revolution Square, in Amsterdam and consecrated on 4 March 1795., print, prints, Frederik Muller Historieplaten, height 417 mm, width 236 mm, print maker, printmaker, 1795 - 1795, paper, papier, etching, hand-coloured

training drawing in suibokuga style with watercolor paints - bamboo trunks on ivory colored paper

Straw Bonnet. Dated: c. 1939. Dimensions: overall: 35.7 x 27 cm (14 1/16 x 10 5/8 in.). Medium: watercolor, graphite, and colored pencil on paperboard. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Ferdinand Badin.

Ella Josephine Sterling, Painted Bellows, c 1936 Painted Bellows

Opera Hood. Dated: c. 1936. Dimensions: overall: 30.5 x 22.9 cm (12 x 9 in.). Medium: watercolor and graphite on paper. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Melita Hofmann.

Joseph L Boyd, House Cap, c 1938 House Cap

Edad media. Francia. Casco o yelmo con protección de la cara. Grabado de 1860.

Philosoof, Erich Wichmann, 1923 print Caricature of a philosopher with glasses. paper caricatures (human types). scholar, philosopher

Drawing of Design for Sword Hilt and Tip of Scabbard (Dolphin-Head Grip) second half 16th century German. Drawing of Design for Sword Hilt and Tip of Scabbard (Dolphin-Head Grip). German. second half 16th century. Ink on paper. Works on Paper-Drawings

Mina Lowry, Chalkware Deer, c 1938 Chalkware Deer

Votive amulet in the form of a retiarius (gladiator) with dagger and net fighting a wild animal that emerges from his erect phallus. The amulet has five tintinnabula (bells) on it. Handcoloured lithograph from Cesar Famin's "Musee royal de Naples (The Royal Museum at Naples)," Abel Ledoux, Paris, 1836. This rare volume is a catalog of the collection of erotic paintings, bronzes and statues excavated in Pompeii and Herculaneum and stored in a Secret Cabinet at Naples.

Helmet from the times of King Zygmunt I. Thurwanger Freres (fl. 1849-1865), graphic artist, Lemercier, Rose Joseph (Paryż ; zakład litograficzny ; 1827-post 1899), workshop, Wilczyński, Jan Kazimierz (1806-1885), publisher

Walvis. Lombard album (series title). Draughtsman: anonymous. Dating: 1560 - 1585. Place: Nederlanden. Measurements: h 99 mm × w 282 mm × h 117 mm × w 304 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

Economy: Detail of Cloth and Bonnet. Dated: 1938. Dimensions: overall: 38.4 x 50.7 cm (15 1/8 x 19 15/16 in.). Medium: watercolor and graphite on paperboard. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: J. Howard Iams.

Kluut, Recurvirostra avosetta, Anselmus Boetius de Boodt, 1596 - 1610, paper, watercolor (paint), deck paint, pencil, chalk, ink, pen, h 295 mm × w 207 mm

Carriage Sunshade. Dated: c. 1937. Dimensions: overall: 44 x 35.7 cm (17 5/16 x 14 1/16 in.). Medium: watercolor, graphite, and pen and ink on paper. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Arelia Arbo.

Painted Bellows. Dated: c. 1940. Dimensions: overall: 52 x 40 cm (20 1/2 x 15 3/4 in.) Original IAD Object: 14 1/2" long; 5" wide. Medium: watercolor and graphite on paper. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: John Koehl.

Silk Embroidered Suspenders. Dated: c. 1936. Dimensions: overall: 35.7 x 28 cm (14 1/16 x 11 in.). Medium: watercolor, graphite, and pen and ink on paper. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Ann Gene Buckley.

Three fishes arranged crosswise. Draughtsman: Jean Bernard. Dating: 1775 - 1833. Measurements: h 222 mm × w 185 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

Journal of Luxury and Fashion 1786, Volume I, T. 28, Friedrich Justin Bertuch, 1786 An Arreslee according to the last taste. Print from the fashion magazine Journal des Luxus und der Moden, published by Friedrich Justin Bertuch and Georg Melchior Kraus, Weimar, 1786-1826. Weimar paper etching An Arreslee according to the last taste. Print from the fashion magazine Journal des Luxus und der Moden, published by Friedrich Justin Bertuch and Georg Melchior Kraus, Weimar, 1786-1826. Weimar paper etching

Weather Vane. Dated: 1935/1942. Dimensions: overall: 28.9 x 25.6 cm (11 3/8 x 10 1/16 in.). Medium: graphite on paper. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Isidore Sovensky.

Gerald Transpota, Bit, c 1940 Bit

Polish saber from the 17th century from the collections of the Historical Museum in Dre Lesser, Aleksander (1814-1884); around 1835-1884 (1830-00-00-1884-00-00);Dresden (Germany), Lesser, Aleksander (1814-1884), Lesser, Aleksander (1814-1884)-collections, Lesser, Wiktor Stanisław Zygmunt (Baron-1853-1935), Lesser, Wiktor Stanisław Zygmunt (Baron-1853-1935) - collection, Historical Museum in Dresden, weapons, white weapons, gift (provenance), military, crafts, sabers, collections, museum collections

Hans Mangelsdorf, Cuspidor, 1938 Cuspidor

Headdress. Dated: c. 1937. Dimensions: overall: 29 x 22.8 cm (11 7/16 x 9 in.). Medium: watercolor and graphite on paper. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Nancy Crimi.

Drawing of 17th century silver belonging to an album, draughtsman: anonymous, Amsterdam, c. 1725 - c. 1728, paper, drawing, h 356 mm × w 245 mm

Insignia Letter "S". Dated: c. 1939. Dimensions: overall: 27 x 35.1 cm (10 5/8 x 13 13/16 in.) Original IAD Object: 18" high. Medium: watercolor and graphite on paper. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Katharine Merrill.

Wood Carving. Dated: 1935/1942. Dimensions: overall: 58.2 x 36.4 cm (22 15/16 x 14 5/16 in.). Medium: watercolor and graphite on paper. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Clyde L. Cheney.

Foot Scraper. Dated: c. 1938. Dimensions: overall: 28 x 35.5 cm (11 x 14 in.). Medium: watercolor, graphite, pen and ink, and gouache on paperboard. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: John Wilkes.

Vase. Dated: c. 1937. Dimensions: overall: 35.5 x 24.4 cm (14 x 9 5/8 in.). Medium: watercolor, graphite, and gouache on paper. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Robert Stewart.

Pa. German Butter Mold. Dated: 1935/1942. Dimensions: overall: 30.5 x 24.5 cm (12 x 9 5/8 in.). Medium: watercolor, graphite, and colored pencil on paper. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: C. Mansfield.

Foot Scraper. Dated: c. 1941. Dimensions: overall: 26.2 x 35.3 cm (10 5/16 x 13 7/8 in.). Medium: graphite on paperboard. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Jacob Lipkin.

Repetitions 1922 by Paul Éluard on which he collaborated with Max Ernst, Éluard's work from this time is known for its emphasis on linguistic and semantic dislocation. Paul Éluard (1895 - 1952) was a French surrealist poet

Cartoon at the music competition in Lille, 1829, Sophia K. Kierdorff, 1829 print Cartoon in the music competition held in Lille on 30 June 1829. A magician on a scaffolding lifts a cup on the left, including a statue of Victoria for Ghent, under the cup on the right a donkey with enormously long ears. In the middle the opened box of Pandora from which soap bubbles take off. Disagreement arose as to whether the St. Caecilia Association from Ghent or the Harmonie van Brussel had held the first prize on the music competition in Lille. Southern Netherlands paper competition, art contest. distribution of awards ~ art contest. sorcerer, magician, wizard, warlock. illusionist, conjurer, juggler, 'legerdemain'. attributes of Pandora: box. ass, donkey Brussels. Ghent. Lille

The Shrine of Saint Monaghan. Charles Thurston Thompson (English, 1816 - 1868)

Reliquary cross in gilded copper from Friesing Diocesan Museum, 12th century. Chromolithograph from Hefner-Alteneck's "Costumes, Artworks and Appliances from the Middle Ages to the 17th Century," Frankfurt, 1879. Illustration by Dr. Jakob Heinrich von Hefner-Alteneck, lithographed by H.P., and published by Heinrich Keller. Hefner-Alteneck (1811 - 1903) was a German museum curator, archaeologist, art historian, illustrator and etcher.

Mola mola (Ocean sunfish). Draughtsman: Robert Jacob Gordon (attributed to). Dating: in or after 1783. Measurements: h 660 mm × w 480 mm; h 304 mm × w 455 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

Capital from the Mosque of El-Aksa (Chapiteau de la mosquée d'El Aksa) James Tissot (French, 1836-1902). , 1886-1887 or 1889. Ink on paper mounted on board, Sheet: 3 7/8 x 5 3/16 in. (9.8 x 13.1 cm). European Art 1886-1887 or 1889

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