Historical Landscape Sketches

A collection of graphite and chalk sketches depicting varied landscapes, waterfronts, and towns with a focus on natural scenery and soft lines.

Finch, Alfred William, work, Siltaharjoilma, black chalk, drawing, 17 cm x 21.5 cm

Capt. Thomas Hastings, 1778-1854, British, Near Saint Lawrence Station, Isle of Wight, 1826. Graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper.

Abklatsch of the chalk drawing on page 15, c. 1897 - c. 1899 Page 14 from a sketchbook with 17 sheets. paper

Finch, Alfred William, work, Siltaharjoilma, black chalk, drawing, 17 cm x 21.5 cm

Capt. Thomas Hastings, 1778-1854, British, West Cowes from Mrs. Baily's, 8 July 1826, 1826. Graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper.

Camouflage , Waterfronts. Childe Hassam (1859-1935). Prints and Drawings

Entrance to Cori, Sir Robert Smirke the younger, 1781-1867, British, 1802-1804, Graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, beige, wove paper, Sheet: 6 3/4 × 10 1/2 inches (17.1 × 26.7 cm)

Capt. Thomas Hastings, 1778-1854, British, Archery Ground, Carisbrooke, 1832. Graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper.

Capt. Thomas Hastings, 1778-1854, British, St. Lawrence, Isle of Wight, 19 September 1827, 1827. Graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper.

Dwa pejzaże z łańcuchami górskimi na horyzoncie. Adalbert (książę pruski ; 1811-1873), draughtsman, cartoonist

Zabudowania wiejskie u stóp Karkonoszy; verso: dwie kompozycje - Karkonosze (u góry), pejzaż z Karkonoszami w oddali (u dołu). Blaschnik, Arthur (1823-1918), draughtsman, cartoonist

West Cowes from Mrs. Baily's, 8 July 1826, Capt. Thomas Hastings, 1778-1854, British, 1826, Graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper, Sheet: 8 × 10 3/8 inches (20.3 × 26.4 cm)

Pont Marie in Paris, state I. Pankiewicz, Józef (1866-1940), graphic artist

Barth Erwin (1880-1933), Ceon Pichelswerder in Berlin-Spandau (1926): Perspective view with a view of Schildhorn via the Havel to the memorial. Light break on the cardboard, 56.6 x 92.1 cm (including scan edges) Barth Erwin (1880-1933): Ehrenmal Pichelswerder, Berlin-Spandau

Thomas Daniell, 1749-1840, British, active in India, Sailboats, undated. Graphite on medium, moderately textured, blued white, laid paper; mounted on, moderately thick, slightly textured, cream, wove paper.

Figures on a bridge over the water, 1819 - 1849 A dome roof can be seen in the background. Leaf 43 Verso from a sketchbook with 60 sheets. paper. pencil bridge. landscapes with waters, waterscapes, seascapes (in the temperate zone)

Cityscape, possible in Amsterdam. Bare trees, a woman and a figure with an umbrella. Leaf 1 Verso from sketchbook LXIV with 29 sheets.

Drawing booklet: Landscape vaguely indicates with water notations, background, Jean, Lamothe-Beuvron (page 13) Camille-Jean-Baptiste Corot (1796-1875). Drawings sketch book: Landscape vaguely indicated with water ratings, background, Jean, Lamotte Beuvron (page 13). Pencil.

Alfred Bonnardot (1808-1884). Montmartre. Pencil on cream paper, 1841. Paris, Carnavalet museum. 79252-5

Italian Sketchbook Sanford Robinson Gifford (American, 1823-1880). Italian Sketchbook, 1867-1868. Graphite on tan, medium-weight, slightly textured wove paper, 5 x 9 x 7/16 in. (12.7 x 22.9 x 1.1 cm). This sketchbook served as a travel diary for the Hudson River School landscape painter Sanford Robinson Gifford during his journeys in France, Switzerland, and Italy. In this two-page spread depicting the church of Santa Caterina del Sasso, perched precariously on the edge of a cliff overlooking Lake Maggiore in Italy, Giffords precise and assured lines exemplify his skills as a draftsman. A practitioner of plein air sketching, the artist used these drawings as preparatory studies for paintings executed later in his studio. The small framed motifs that appear on this and other pages of the sketchbook show his initial experiments with composition. American Art 1867-1868

Face in a Dorpsstraat, Jan Weissenbruch, 1832 - 1880 drawing paper. pencil village street

Sir Robert Smirke the younger, 1781-1867, British, From della Porta di Santa Lupia - del Portico, Vicenza, 1804. Graphite on thin, moderately textured, beige, wove paper.

On the Medina, Isle of Wight, Capt. Thomas Hastings, 1778-1854, British, 1830, Graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper, Sheet: 5 1/2 × 9 inches (14 × 22.9 cm)

Carisbrooke, Capt. Thomas Hastings, 1778-1854, British, 1826, Graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper, Sheet: 9 1/4 × 13 inches (23.5 × 33 cm)

Benjamin West, 1738-1820, American, active in Britain (from 1763), Study. Graphite.

Ship lift at a shore, 1797 - 1838 Two men in a rowing boat sail towards the elevator. One of them pulls a rope on a fence to close the fence and therefore access to the lift. There are houses on the bank. Page 31 Recto from a sketchbook with 65 sheets. paper. chalk. pencil Two men in a rowing boat sail towards the elevator. One of them pulls a rope on a fence to close the fence and therefore access to the lift. There are houses on the bank. Page 31 Recto from a sketchbook with 65 sheets. paper. chalk. pencil

Landscape with a House, Thomas Daniell, 1749-1840, British, active in India, William Daniell, 1769-1837, British, undated, Graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper; mounted on, moderately thick, slightly textured, cream, vove paper, Sheet: 9 3/4 × 14 1/8 inches (24.8 × 35.9 cm), Contemporary drawn border: 10 7/16 × 14 13/16 inches (26.5 × 37.6 cm), and Mount: 12 13/16 × 16 7/16 inches (32.5 × 41.8 cm), house, landscape, rocks (landforms), trees

Capt. Thomas Hastings, 1778-1854, British, At Newnham Looking on the Severn Eastward, March 1848, 1848. Graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper.

Print. Artist: Katsushika Hokusai (Japanese, Tokyo (Edo) 1760-1849 Tokyo (Edo)). Culture: Japan. Dimensions: 7 1/8 x 20 1/4 in. (18.1 x 51.4 cm). Date: ca. 1801. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Pencil sketches by Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller, created circa 1827, featuring studies of figures, objects, and landscapes. The drawings focus on line, shading, and realistic representation.

Pre-aux-Clerics.

Long Venice, 1879-80. James McNeill Whistler (American, 1834-1903). Etching;

Brown pen drawing by Arent de Gelder depicting a Dutch canal landscape with a windmill and houses on the bank, with brown lavated shading and slight light damage on the right edge.

Study of an Old Man 1859 School of Charles Jacque. Study of an Old Man. School of Charles Jacque (French, Paris 1813-1894 Paris). 1859. Etching. Prints

Italian Sketchbook Sanford Robinson Gifford (American, 1823-1880). Italian Sketchbook, 1867-1868. Graphite on tan, medium-weight, slightly textured wove paper, 5 x 9 x 7/16 in. (12.7 x 22.9 x 1.1 cm). This sketchbook served as a travel diary for the Hudson River School landscape painter Sanford Robinson Gifford during his journeys in France, Switzerland, and Italy. In this two-page spread depicting the church of Santa Caterina del Sasso, perched precariously on the edge of a cliff overlooking Lake Maggiore in Italy, Giffords precise and assured lines exemplify his skills as a draftsman. A practitioner of plein air sketching, the artist used these drawings as preparatory studies for paintings executed later in his studio. The small framed motifs that appear on this and other pages of the sketchbook show his initial experiments with composition. American Art 1867-1868

Edelfelt, Albert, Sketch book, 32 leaves, drawing, 21.5 cm x 29.5 cm, Edelfelt, Albert, Albert Gustaf Aristides Edelfelt 1854 - 1905, Finnish painter. Painting in a naturalistic style and with a Realist approach to art. He lived in Finland

Capt. Thomas Hastings, 1778-1854, British, Near the Entrance to Newport from East Cowes, between 1826 and 1830. Graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper.

Near Vicenza, Sir Robert Smirke the younger, 1781-1867, British, 1802-1804, Graphite on medium, slightly textured, beige, wove paper, Sheet: 7 3/4 × 9 9/16 inches (19.7 × 24.3 cm)

John Varley, 1778-1842, British, From an Album of Sixty-one Topographical Sketches. Graphite.

Near Newport, 30 July 1826, Capt. Thomas Hastings, 1778-1854, British, 1826, Graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper, Sheet: 8 × 10 3/8 inches (20.3 × 26.4 cm)

Two Studies of Dedham Church from the East, John Constable, 1776-1837, British, between 1806 and 1808, Graphite and white gouache on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper, Sheet: 6 3/4 x 8 inches (17.1 x 20.3 cm), church, figure, landscape, studies, Dedham, England, Essex, Europe, United Kingdom

Girl by a bucket and a landscape with water, 1834 - 1906 Page 28 Verso from a sketchbook with 46 sheets. paper. pencil girl (child between toddler and youth). wooden container: barrel, cask, bucket. landscapes with waters, waterscapes, seascapes (in the temperate zone)

Clouds sky with color notes, draughtsman: Gerrit Willem Dijsselhof, 1876 - 1924, paper, h 164 mm × w 214 mm

View of the metallurgical complex; Röhricht, Wolf (1886-1953), Möller, Ferdinand (1882-1956), Birkholz, Herrmann (Fl. Ca 1900-1927); 1918 (1918-00-00-1918-00-00);

La Salute Dawn 1879-1880 United States. Etching and drypoint with foul biting, with drypoint cancellation, in black ink on ivory laid paper . James McNeill Whistler

Sketches of a landscape and figures in boats, Wouter Schouten, Cornelis de Bruyn (Rejected Attribution), c. 1660 drawing paper. chalk. ink pen / brush In the

Sir Robert Smirke the younger, 1781-1867, British, Road to Sarzana, 1802-1804. Graphite on medium, slightly textured, blued white, laid paper.

Sketchbook Peter Frederick Rothermel (American, 1817-1895). Sketchbook, 1857. Graphite with ink and watercolor on cream, medium-weight, slightly textured wove paper, 5 11/16 x 8 5/8 x 3/8 in. (14.4 x 21.9 x 1 cm). This forty-two-page sketchbook contains drawings by the history painter Peter Frederick Rothermel of scenes in Genazzano, Italy, forty miles east of Rome. He documented the local architecture, sculpture, landscape, and people, while also including sketches for narrative subjects. The costumes and daily life of the townfolk are captured in several skillful figure studies, including this image of a man leaning against a stone wall. American Art 1857

The Little Putney, no. 1. Whistler, James McNeill (1834-1903). 1879. Avery, Samuel Putnam, 1822-1904. Prints. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection

Album Page, Gate at Laon; Whitney Warren Jr. (American, 1864-1943); France; graphite on off-white wove paper tipped into binding with fabric; 31.3 x 23.9 cm (12 5/16 x 9 7/16 in.)

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Design for a painting, Arcadian landscape, draughtsman: Dionys van Nijmegen, (possibly), 1715 - 1798, paper, brush, h 326 mm × w 210 mm

Skaters on a frozen sail next to a bridge. Along the speed there are homes, a building with towers and a cake and sopion. Leaf 66 Recto from a sketchbook with 95 sheets.

Schjerfbeck, Helene, work, Subject from Helsinki, stall, human figures, marker on paper, drawing, dimensions : 13.7 cm x 21.5 cm, Helena Sofia Helene Schjerfbeck 1862 - 1946, Finnish modernist painter, known for her realist works, self-portraits, landscapes and still lifes, finland.

Ships at sea, Robert Frederick Blum, American, 1857-1903, Graphite on wove paper, Sketch of ships under sail with clouds in the sky., USA, 1884, seascapes, Drawing, Drawing

Henry Swinburne, 1743-1803, British, Brindisi from the HIll South of the New Channel, 1777 to 1780. Pen and brown ink over graphite on medium, moderately textured, cream, wove paper, mounted on, moderately thick, slightly textured, cream, wove paper.

From the Strand to Kilkenny. Elizabeth Murray; English, c. 1815-1882. Date: 1843. Dimensions: 176 mm × 254 mm. Graphite on cream wove paper. Origin: England. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.

Drawing, Fishing boats, Japan; Robert Frederick Blum (American, 1857-1903); USA; pastel crayon on wove paper; 17.6 × 26.4 cm (6 15/16 × 10 3/8 in.)

Sketchbook of American and Italian Subjects William Trost Richards (American, 1833-1905). Sketchbook of American and Italian Subjects, 1855-1856. Sketchbook containing drawings in graphite on wove paper, 4 1/16 x 6 5/8 x 3/8 in. (10.3 x 16.8 x 1 cm). Richards first traveled to Europe in 1855, remaining abroad for a year and spending most of the time in Italy. Like so many artists before him, Richards was overjoyed to be in Florence: I have not as yet realized that I am in Italy that all the dreams of a boyhood are fulfilled.” Richards carried this small sketchbook on a walking tour in the Apennine mountains in October 1855. The carefully drawn vista shown here of the broad valley through which the Arno river winds reminded Richards, always quick to compare American and European landscape scenery, of the view of the Hudson from the Catskill Mountain House. American Art 1855-1856

Man drives a donkey towards a bridge; Landscapes to Esaias van de Velde.

The mill-wheel , Water mills. Francis Seymour Haden (1818-1910). Prints and Drawings

Edward William Cooke, 1811-1880, British, Enkhuysen, undated. Graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, white wove paper.

River scene with company on a boat and an arbor, c. 1655 drawing Zwolle paper. chalk

John Sell Cotman, 1782-1842, British, Bridge and Tower, after Richard Wilson, ca. 1820. Graphite on medium slightly textured, cream wove paper.

Edelfelt, Albert, work, Sketch book, drawing, 13 cm x 20.5 cm, Edelfelt, Albert, Albert Gustaf Aristides Edelfelt 1854 - 1905, Finnish painter. Painting in a naturalistic style and with a Realist approach to art. He lived in Finland

Rokin in Amsterdam, seen from artists' association Arti et Amicitiae ..

Ruiny zamku w Helenental. Bilińska-Bohdanowiczowa, Anna (1854-1893), draughtsman, cartoonist

Pont spring at Rhenen, draughtsman: Johannes Abraham Mondt, George Henry Boughton, 1869 - 1941, paper, h 207 mm × w 174 mm

Abklatsch of the chalk drawing on page 8 Recto, 1892 The artist also signed a cloudy sky at the Abklatsch. Leaf 7 Verso from a sketchbook with 25 sheets. paper. chalk clouds

Road to Fiesole, page from a sketchbook. Czachórski, Władysław (1850-1911), draughtsman, cartoonist

Large market in Haarlem, Gerard ter Borch (II), 1634, draughtsman: Gerard ter Borch (II), draughtsman: Pieter de Molijn, (rejected attribution), Haarlem, 1634, paper, h 163 mm × w 203 mm

River landscape with a mill, Adrianus Everssen, c. 1828 - 1897 River landscape. On the left a cityscape with a mill. Sailing ships are moored at the quay. Page 22 Verso from a sketchbook with 27 magazines. Netherlands paper. pencil river. windmill in landscape. city-view, and landscape with man-made constructions. sailing-ship, sailing-boat

Henry Swinburne, 1743-1803, British, Chteau Sainte-Marie, France, undated. Pen and gray ink on medium, moderately textured, cream, laid paper, mounted on, moderately thick, slightly textured, cream, wove paper.

Rowing boat, a head and a fence at a meadow, 1822 - 1893 Page 6 Recto from a sketchbook with 36 sheets. paper. pencil. chalk Page 6 Recto from a sketchbook with 36 sheets. paper. pencil. chalk

Drawing, Water Carriers on the Magdalena (Bay), Barranquilla, Republic of Nueva Grenada, now Colombia; Frederic Edwin Church (American, 1826-1900); Colombia; graphite, brush and oxidized white gouache on cream-colored wove paper, darkened to brown and greenish gray; Sheet: 30.8 x 44.6 cm (12 1/8 x 17 9/16 in.)

Donkey and figures on a path along a waterfront, c. 1811 Page 27 Recto from a sketchbook with 75 sheets. paper. chalk Page 27 Recto from a sketchbook with 75 sheets. paper. chalk

Church in Doorwerth and figures on a country road near Heelsum, 1868 Leaf 36 Verso from a sketchbook with 57 sheets. Doorwerth paper. watercolor (paint). pencil brush city-view, and landscape with man-made constructions. church (exterior). landscapes (+ landscape with figures, staffage). road, path Doorwerth. Heelsum

Bunting, Print made by James McNeill Whistler, 1834-1903, American, active in Britain (from 1859), 1887, Etching on medium, slightly textured, cream antique laid paper, Sheet: 6 15/16 x 4 7/8 inches (17.7 x 12.4 cm), Sheet: 6 7/8 x 4 7/8 inches (17.4 x 12.4 cm), Plate: 6 7/8 x 4 7/8 inches (17.4 x 12.4 cm), and Image: 6 7/8 x 4 7/8 inches (17.4 x 12.4 cm), boats, bunting, caps, flags, fleet review, flotilla, genre subject, jackets, jubilee, marine art, masts, men, navy, pulleys, railing, ropes, sailing, sea, seamen, ships, trousers, wind, England, Europe, Hampshire, Spithead, The Solent, United Kingdom

Hilly landscape with figures on a quay, 1874 On the quay, presumably from a river, stands and sit figures with crates and other luggage. There are houses along the quay. Leaf 46 Verso from a sketchbook with 47 sheets. paper. pencil landscapes with waters, waterscapes, seascapes (in the temperate zone) (+ landscape with figures, staffage). pier, quay, wharf. sailing-ship, sailing-boat

Edelfelt, Albert, work, Sketch book, drawing, 9.5 cm x 16.5 cm, Edelfelt, Albert, Albert Gustaf Aristides Edelfelt 1854 - 1905, Finnish painter. Painting in a naturalistic style and with a Realist approach to art. He lived in Finland

A Fountain at Grottaferrata. Grottaferrata is located southeast of Rome, on the northern side of Lake Albano. Knip worked up only a small section of his crisply, carefully detailed graphite sketch with grey wash and a touch of watercolour. It is precisely this unfinished’ character that often lends his drawings their exceptional appeal.

Stadsplein met figuren.There is a well or fountain on the town square. Leaf 13 Recto from a sketchbook with 43 sheets.

Cityscape, draughtsman: Egbert Rubertus Derk Schaap, 1872 - 1939, paper, h 60 mm × w 91 mm

James McNeill Whistler, Long Venice, 1886, etching on paper.

Italy. Terrasina, April 1838. Drawing Avjörgen Pedersen Roed. Nordic

Valencia, Spain, Henry Swinburne, 1743-1803, British, 1775 to 1776, Pen and brown ink, over graphite on medium, moderately textured, blued white, laid paper, mounted on, moderately thick, slightly textured, cream, wove paper, Mount: 16 1/4 × 11 1/8 inches (41.3 × 28.3 cm) and Sheet: 5 × 7 3/16 inches (12.7 × 18.3 cm)

Clevedon, Capt. Thomas Hastings, 1778-1854, British, 1845, Graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper, Sheet: 7 5/8 × 10 5/8 inches (19.4 × 27 cm)

Pejzaż z miasteczkiem wśród wzgórz (Rio de Janeiro). Adalbert (książę pruski ; 1811-1873), draughtsman, cartoonist

Building of the General Secretariat, Buitenzorg, West Java. Draughtsman: Adrianus Johannes Bik (attributed to). Draughtsman: Jannes Theodorus Bik (possibly). Dating: c. 1816 - c. 1846. Place: West-Java. Measurements: h 233 mm × w 308 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

Schjerfbeck, Helene, Sketch book. Ritbok för Helena Sofia Schjerfbeck 1872., 1872-1874, drawing, 17 cm x 27 cm, Schjerfbeck, Helene, Section number A-2011 -324 / 6, part: Boat, 1872-1874, Helena Sofia Helene Schjerfbeck 1862 - 1946, Finnish modernist painter, known for her realist works, self-portraits, landscapes and still lifes, finland.

On the Parade, West Cowes, Isle of Wight, Capt. Thomas Hastings, 1778-1854, British, between 1826 and 1830, Graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper, Sheet: 4 3/4 × 6 1/2 inches (12.1 × 16.5 cm)

Doodle of a landscape, Adrianus Everssen, 1828 - 1897 drawing paper. pencil

Monitors, Print made by James McNeill Whistler, 1834-1903, American, active in Britain (from 1859), 1887, Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, greened white laid paper, Sheet: 5 5/8 x 8 11/16 inches (14.3 x 22 cm) and Image: 5 1/2 x 8 11/16 inches (14 x 22 cm), boats, bonnet, clouds, fleet review, flotilla, genre subject, hats, jubilee, marine art, masts, men, navy, sailing, sea, ships, smoke, warships, woman, England, Europe, United Kingdom

Landscape Sketch, Thomas Daniell, 1749-1840, British, active in India, William Daniell, 1769-1837, British, undated, Graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper; mounted on, moderately thick, moderately textured, cream, wove paper, Sheet: 5 1/8 × 7 3/8 inches (13 × 18.7 cm), Contemporary drawn border: 5 3/4 x 8 inches (14.6 x 20.3 cm), and Mount: 6 3/8 × 9 1/8 inches (16.2 × 23.2 cm), architectural subject, building, landscape, sketch, tree

Face at Bruges, draughtsman: Adolf le Comte, 1860 - 1921, paper, h 115 mm × w 174 mm

Department store Les Grands Magasins du Louvre, Paris, 1891 Page 61 from a sketchbook with 35 sheets. Paris paper. chalk department store, supermarket. street (+ city(-scape) with figures, staffage) Paris

Abklatsch of the chalk drawing on page 2. Page 3 from a sketchbook with 17 sheets.

Schjerfbeck, Helene, work, Illustration sketch for Esaias Tegnér's work Frithiofs saga, possibly 1870s, pencil on paper, drawing, 21 cm x 14.4 cm, Helena Sofia Helene Schjerfbeck 1862 - 1946, Finnish modernist painter, known for her realist works, self-portraits, landscapes and still lifes, finland.

Pejzaż, widok Rua do Catele i palma. Adalbert (książę pruski ; 1811-1873), draughtsman, cartoonist

Two Sketches of Sailboats Sailing, Arnold William Brunner, American, 1857-1925, Graphite on paper, Above, a narrows, with sailboat. Below, sailboat with a low shore beyond., USA, ca. 1881, seascapes, Drawing, Drawing

Finch, Alfred William, work, Helsingin Etelä-satama, black chalk, drawing, 30 cm x 38 cm

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