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Delicate sketches capturing serene landscapes and natural forms, using graphite and watercolor techniques to evoke tranquil outdoor scenes.

Wiik, Maria, work, Sketch book, undateable, drawing, Wiik, Maria, unscheduled, Maria Catharina Wiik 1853 - 1928 a Finnish painter of still life, genre images, landscape paintings and portraits. Lived in Finland
Wiik, Maria, work, Sketch book, undateable, drawing, Wiik, Maria, unscheduled, Maria Catharina Wiik 1853 - 1928 a Finnish painter of still life, genre images, landscape paintings and portraits. Lived in Finland
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La Princesse Bondour, Design for a Fan. Artist: George Sheringham (British, London 1884-1937 London). Dimensions: Sheet: 9 1/8 × 18 3/8 in. (23.2 × 46.7 cm). Date: after 1909. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.Melville Castle John Clerk of Eldin (British, 1728-1812). Melville Castle. Etching and drypoint on China paper laid down, 22 13/16 x 37 13/16 in. (58 x 96 cm). European ArtStudy for Easthampton , Sidewalks, Elms, Residential streets. Childe Hassam (1859-1935). Prints and DrawingsThe mystic death of a scholar, James Ensor, 1880, drawing, between circa 1880 and circa 1886, Belgian ArtPresenting the Tripod Wang Xuehao Chinese 1803 As a youth, Wang Xuehao studied with a grandson of Wang Yuanqi, who trained him in the elements that made the elder Wangs manner so beloved: loose dotting, bold interplays of solid and void, and a studied awkwardness of line that somehow never departed from elegance. Wang Xuehao shows his mastery of this style in this short handscroll, which depicts the scholar and art collector Ruan Yuan donating a famous ancient bronze vessel to a Buddhist monastery. View more. Presenting the Tripod. Wang Xuehao (Chinese, 1754-1832). China. 1803. Handscroll; ink on paper. Qing dynasty (1644-1911). PaintingsPrint made by James McNeill Whistler, 1834-1903, American, active in Britain (from 1859), Tilbury, 1887. Etching on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper.Simberg, Hugo, work name: Cross lock with angel wing and decorative ribbons. Sketches for the vaults of the north and south aisles of Tampere Cathedral, sketch undated, watercolor and pencil, drawing, 39.5 cm x 56.5 cmSERT , JOSE MARIA. PINTOR ESPAÑOL. BARCELONA 1874 - 1945. " DEFENSA HEROICA DE TRES ALMOGAVERS ASSETJATS EN UNJA TORRE ". MUSEO DE ARTE MODERNO. BARCELONA.Emile René Ménard (1862-1930). "Bath time". Graphite pencil, pastel on paper. Museum of Fine Arts of the City of Paris, Petit Palais. 122540-3 Tree, seaside, coastal coast, drawing, woman, coast, monochromia, show, artistic movement, sea, female naked, female nudite, ocean, pastel, landscape, parasol pine, watch, evening, symbolism, water, 19th XIX 19th 19th 19th century, 20th XXth XX 20th 20th 20th century, Nature, nakedDrawing, Sailboat; Robert Frederick Blum (American, 1857-1903); USA; graphite on wove paper; 14.2 × 11.2 cm (5 9/16 × 4 7/16 in.)Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775-1851, British, The Channel Sketchbook, ca. 1845. Watercolor on medium, slightly textured, white wove paper.Sketch of Angels, Francis Augustus Lathrop, American, 1849 - 1909, Graphite on paper, Probably a study for a mural. Groups of figures on each side, and above, moving towards a central winged figure., USA, ca. 1895, mural designs, Drawing, DrawingHarbor view in Rotterdam. Draughtsman: Adolf le Comte. Dating: 1860 - 1921. Measurements: h 135 mm × w 215 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.Blush -up study after the wall; Thoma, Hans (1839-1924); around 1920 (1915-00-00-1925-00-00);Marengo (vignette), Print made by Edward Goodall, 1795-1870, British, after Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775-1851, British, 1830, Etching and line engraving; engraver's proof on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper with chine-collé, Sheet: 17 1/2 × 12 1/4 inches (44.5 × 31.1 cm), Plate: 10 1/4 × 5 5/8 inches (26 × 14.3 cm), Chine collé: 10 × 5 1/2 inches (25.4 × 14 cm), and Image: 2 × 3 1/2 inches (5.1 × 8.9 cm)Edelfelt, Albert, work, Sketch book, drawing, 11.5 cm x 14 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 FinlandFirouz-abad Firuzabad. District de Firouz-Abad. Firouzabad. Plan topographique.. Coste, Pascal, 1787-1879. Flandin, Eugène (1809-1876). Prints. 1851 - 1854. General Research Division. Iran, Iran , Antiquities, Firuzabad (Iran)Fresco from the Roman Villa in Boscoreale (Naples). Roman Civilization, 1st Century.Vogel E., Alte Oak (after 1911): View. Pencil on paper, 32 x 39.6 cm (including scan edges) Vogel E. : Alte EicheUp channel, 1925, England, by Arthur Briscoe. Gift of Sir John Ilott, 1952.Tak-i Bostan. Bas-relief, chasse aux sangliers., 1851 - 1854, Flandin, Eugène (1809-1876)., 1851 - 1854., Paris. Publisher, Gide et J. Baudry. Iran, Antiquities, EtchingsThe story of a dory: cards depicting a dory on the shore, in the ocean, filled with fish and nets, in a yard as a flower planter.. Mathews, F. Schuyler (Ferdinand Schuyler) (1854-1938). Proofs, Cards. 1865 - 1899. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection. Boats, Plants, Potted, FishingMonro School, On the Banks of the Lago di Como, ca. 1796. Watercolor, gray wash and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper.A Sailing Dinghy with Three Men Leaving a Rocky Inlet, Joseph Farington, 1747-1821, British, undated, Watercolor, with pen in brown ink, black ink, and graphite; verso: graphite on moderately thick, moderately textuered, beige, wove paper, Sheet: 19 1/8 × 25 3/8 inches (48.6 × 64.5 cm), dinghy, inlet, landscape, marine art, rocks (landforms)Francesco Casanova depicts a fourage train on a country road crossing a bridge at sunrise, executed in chalk with brown and reddish laved tones and highlighted with cover color.Roman sketchbook, Gauffier, Louis, 1761-1801, pencil, pen and black and brown ink, grey and brown wash, and black and white chalk, 1784-1789, executed during the artist's stay in Rome at the Acadeìmie de France as a recipient of the Grand Prix de Rome. Twenty-four drawings depict urban views of Rome, some inscribed by monument (including S. Gregorio, S. Lorenzo Fuori delle Mura, S. Giovanni Laterano, Villa Negroni, Villa Mattei). The remaining sketches are landscapes and figure studies, some after classical sculpture.Ariccia Seen from across a Valley. Dated: 1866. Dimensions: sheet: 29.9 x 36.6 cm (11 3/4 x 14 7/16 in.). Medium: watercolor over graphite heightened with white, on brown laid paper. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: August Christian Geist.Design for Urne Buriall - Funeral Pyre, 1932. By Paul Nash (d. 1947).. Illustrations to accompany Sir Thomas Browne's 1658 book 'Urne Buriall and the Garden of Cyrus'Cai Wenji Returning to China. Origin: China. Date: 16th-17th century. Period: Ming dynasty. Ink and color on silk. Museum: Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery.Design for a Stage Set. Artist: Eugène Cicéri (French, Paris 1813-1890 Fontainebleau). Date: 1830-90. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.Edelfelt, Albert, work, Sketch book, drawing, 11.5 cm x 14 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"Sometimes his tinkling waters slipt. Down through frost-leaved forest- crypt.". Benjamin West Kilburn (American, 1827 - 1909)Pencil sketches by Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller, circa 1827, featuring studies of figures, landscapes, and objects on paper.Sketches for Compositions and Groups of Figures (recto and verso) ca. 1568-88 Circle of Paolo Veronese (Paolo Caliari) Italian. Sketches for Compositions and Groups of Figures (recto and verso) 426620Remnants of standing male figures, ruler in informal contact with his subjects, Willem I Frederik (King of the Netherlands), anonymous, 1662, paper, chalk, h 197 mm × w 320 mmEdward Lear, 1812-1888, British, Thebes, 1854. Watercolor, graphite, pen and cochineal and brown ink on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper.Original Americans robbed two white men in a canoe, 1874 - 1876 drawing Original Americans jump into the water from a tree and wade armed to a canoe with two white men. From the boat a man focuses his gun on them. Rotterdam paper. pencil Native peoples of the Americas. landscapes with waters, waterscapes, seascapes (in the temperate zone) (+ landscape with figures, staffage). mountains. battle. rowing-boat, canoe, etc.Samuel Bradshaw, 1830-1869, British, The Paring of Her and Leader, A Fire at Sea and The Sun Rising in a Mist. Engraving.Anne Rushout, ca. 1768-1849, British, Lower Thornery, Sezincote, 1824, 1824. Watercolor and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper.Salle VII. Bas-reliefs 7, 8. ... Ce n'était pas probablement la représentation d'un aminal réel, mais plutôt celle d'un cible servant de but pour exercer les archers. ... (V, p. 150). Flandin, Eugène, 1809-1876. Botta, Paul Emile. Prints, Illustrations. 1849. General Research Division. Assyria , Antiquities & archaeological sites, Nineveh (Extinct city)Capt. Thomas Hastings, 1778-1854, British, Beaulieu, Hampshire, 1827. Graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper.Remnants of standing male figures ..Bertin, Edouard (n.1797-10-07-D.1871-09-14), landscape with a citadel (main title). Charcoal and chalk on paper. Petit Palais, Museum of Fine Arts of the City of Paris.Figure on a Bridge. John Marin; American, 1870-1953. Date: 1895-1900. Dimensions: 155 x 305 mm. Graphite on brown wove paper. Origin: United States. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.S/T - 2005 - TECNICA MIXTA/LIENZO - 50X50. Author: UGALDE JUAN 1958-. Location: GALERIA SOLEDAD LORENZO. MADRID. SPAIN.Sakia at the Nilometer, Island of Elephantine Edwin Howland Blashfield (American, 1848-1936). Sakia at the Nilometer, Island of Elephantine, 1887. Graphite on paper mounted to gray paperboard, Sheet: 11 3/4 x 10 1/16 in. (29.8 x 25.6 cm). American Art 1887The River Bridge at Uji. Date/Period: 1568 - 1615. Painting. One of a pair of six-fold screens: ink and color over gold-foil ground on paper One of a pair of six-fold screens: ink and color over gold-foil ground on paper. Height: 1,714.50 mm (67.50 in); Width: 3,384.55 mm (11.10 ft). Author: UNKNOWN.Design for a Stage Set at the Opéra, Paris 1828-90 Eugène Cicéri French. Design for a Stage Set at the Opéra, Paris 357868Village face at Dongen, draughtsman: August Allebé, 1848 - 1927, paper, brush, h 338 mm × w 450 mmBeautiful.. Benjamin West Kilburn (American, 1827 - 1909)Pościg, pl. 6, Szkice graficzne, Op. I. Klinger, Max (1857-1920), graphic artist, Danz, Alexander (Lipsk ; wydawnictwo ; 1869-1900), publishing houseLAS NUEVAS UTOPIAS O LA CIUDAD IDEAL - 1992 - 200x282 - DIBUJO - POSTMODERNISMO. Author: GUILLERMO PEREZ VILLALTA. Location: GALERIA SOLEDAD LORENZO. MADRID. SPAIN. HERCULES. HIDRA DE LERNA.Design for Ceiling, Frederick Crace, English, 1779-1859, Pen and black ink, brush and watercolor on white wove paper, Horizontal rectangle. Painted sky ceiling with dove and flower garland center, gray borders right side, decorated borders at left. Lined., 1801 or earlier, interiors, Drawing, DrawingChinese Scholar Contemplating a Waterfall late18th-early 19th century Follower of Soga Shōhaku Japanese This mountain landscape, in which the human presence is but a minor aspect of the vastness of nature, draws on an archetypal motif in East Asian art first formulated by Song-dynasty painters in the tenth century. Yet here the vision of nature is more foreboding than grand, and the minute humans seem more in peril than in harmony with their strangely animated environment. At the edge of a precipice in the left foreground a gentleman sits contemplating a distant waterfall, unaware of the improbably huge splash that arches up over him like a dragon. To the right a single traveler crosses a mountain ravine on a precarious bridge. He seems to be making his way toward the temple at far right, but the path disappears in light-filled mist. In the distance skeletal trees on barren mountaintops accentuate the forbidding nature of the vast landscape.Soga Shōhaku was notorious for his eccentric EL ICTINEO DE MONTURIOL EN EL PUERTO DE BARCELONA - SIGLO XIX. Location: CONGRESO DE LOS DIPUTADOS-ARCHIVO. MADRID. SPAIN.George Catlin, An Indian Encampment at Sunset, 1861 1869 An Indian Encampment at SunsetAbruzzo Teramo Teramo Pinacoteca8. Hutzel, Max 1960-1990 Collections include a panel painting of Pope Clement by Giovanni da Sulmona, a polyptych by Giacomo da Campli, painted Castelli ceramics, paintings of St. Sebastian and other saints, and a Last Supper, perhaps by Bernardo Rantvic or the Fiammingo School. German-born photographer and scholar Max Hutzel (1911-1988) photographed in Italy from the early 1960s until his death. The result of this project, referred to by Hutzel as Foto Arte Minore, is thorough documentation of art historical development in Italy up to the 18th century, including objects of the Etruscans and the Romans, as well as early Medieval, Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque monuments. Images are organized by geographic region in Italy, then by province, city, site complex and monument.Malhas Turksee alias Kauteseneo, Gangaram Chintaman Tambat, active 1790s, Anglo-Indian, undated, Gray wash and graphite with pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper, Sheet: 12 × 19 1/8 inches (30.5 × 48.6 cm), architectural subjectWalter Kampmann created a street scene using ink and watercolor in 1937.Drawing, Interior of the Temple of Bacchus, Baalbek; Frederic Edwin Church (American, 1826-1900); USA; brush and oil paint, graphite on cardboard; 28.4 × 45.2 cm (11 3/16 × 17 13/16 in.)Bound Volume illustrating the poetry and music of Georges Fragerolle: The Progress of the Stars: Les Pêcheurs, 1890. Henri Rivière (French, 1864-1951), C. Marpon & Flammarion. 18 color lithographs in a Bound Volume illustrating the poetry and music of Georges Fragerolle; book: 24.5 x 32.2 cm (9 5/8 x 12 11/16 in.).George Catlin, La Salle Taking Possession of the Land at the Mouth of the Arkansas March 10, 1682, 1847 1848 La Salle Taking Possession of the Land at the Mouth of the Arkansas. March 10, 1682Illustration of the Invasion of China During Which Our Troops Fourght Fiercely In Ice and Snow at Haicheng and Major-General Oshima Bravely Faced the Enemy. Date/Period: Meiji Period, dated 1895. Print. Tryptich woodblock print, ink and colors on paper Tryptich woodblock print, ink and colors on paper. Height: 14.75 mm (0.58 in); Width: 30 mm (1.18 in). Author: Beisaku Taguchi.Jacques Callot (1592-1635). "The whims, the hospice. Thirty-eighth number of the suite of 50 pieces engraved in Florence" (Lieure 251, Meaume 842). Etching. 1617. Museum of Fine Arts of the City of Paris, Petit Palais. 99607-16 Etching, engravingDesign for a ceiling painting with putti, flowers and garlands, draughtsman: Elias van Nijmegen, (possibly), 1677 - 1755, paper, brush, pen, h 247 mm × w 386 mmWindmill (II). Pruszyński, Aureliusz (Kraków ; zakład artystyczny ; 1873-post 1930), printing house, Wyczółkowski, Leon (1852-1936), graphic artistJohn Robert Cozens, 1752-1797, British, Monet della Madonna near Arquà, June 19, undated. Graphite and varnish on thin, slightly textured, beige laid paper.The Kangxi Emperor's Southern Inspection Tour, Scroll Three: Ji'nan to Mount Tai datable to 1698 Wang Hui Chinese In 1689 the Kangxi emperor (r. 1662-1722), a Manchu whose forebears had conquered China in 1644, made a grand tour to consolidate his authority over southern China. The renowned landscapist Wang Hui was commissioned to record the journey in a series of twelve oversize handscrolls. This scroll, the third in the set, highlights the emperor’s visit to Mount Tai, China’s “Sacred Peak of the East.” Although Wang based his design on maps and woodblock prints—he never visited the mountain—he also connected specific sites with imaginary landscape passages inspired by classical precedents and employed a traditional “blue-and-green” palette to underscore the emperor’s beneficent rule. Listen to experts illuminate this artwork's story Listen Play or pause #7610. The Kangxi Emperor's Southern Inspection Tour, Scroll Three: Ji'nan to Mount Tai Supported by Bloomberg PhilanthropiesScene tile, skating man and woman, in praise, wall tile tile sculpture ceramic earthenware glaze, baked 2x glazed painted Purple on white in octagon napkin régenceEleuzja. From travel to Greece; Cie Ski, Jan (1858-1913); 1905 (1905-00-00-1905-00-00);State Art collections (Warsaw - 1922-1939) - collections, message (provenance)Landscape fragment, sketch. Alchimowicz, Kazimierz (1840-1916), painter'The Swing', (detail), 1787, Oil on canvas. Author: FRANCISCO DE GOYA. Location: PRIVATE COLLECTION. MADRID. SPAIN.A Scholar and His Wife in Their Garden Ren Xun. A Scholar and His Wife in Their Garden, 19th century. Handscroll; ink on paper, image: 13 1/8 × 51 1/8 in. (33.3 × 129.9 cm). Asian Art 19th centuryLandscape, 1500s. Narihide (Japanese, active 1500s). Hanging scroll; ink on paper; mounted: 167 x 39.9 cm (65 3/4 x 15 11/16 in.). This composition includes imagery from the Eight Views of the Xiao and Xiang Rivers. Scanning the composition from top to bottom, at least six of the views are discernible: night rain over Xiao and Xiang, evening bell from a mist-shrouded temple, returning sails off a distant shore, geese descending to a sandbar, mountain village in clearing mist, and sunset glow over a fishing village. Inside the paintings box is a document with a long inscription by prominent calligrapher, collector, and connoisseur Maeda K?setsu (1841-1916) discussing the paintings subject and the matter of the painters biography—he appears to have been a Kano school artist, but his precise identity is unclear.Kaishien gaden = The Mustard Seed Garden Painting Manual, 1753, by Wang Gai, active 1677-1705, Kyoto, WoodcutsEdward Alfred Goodall, 1819-1908, British, The Boy of Egremond, 1834. Line engraving, engraver's proof on thick, slightly textured, cream, wove paper, with cream, chine colle.Edward Lear, 1812-1888, British, Amada, 9:30 am, 12 February 1867, 1867. Watercolor, pen and brown ink, and graphite on thick, rough, cream wove paper.Bound Volume illustrating the poetry and music of Georges Fragerolle: The Prodigal Son: Premier Tableau, 1895. Henri Rivière (French, 1864-1951), E. Flammarion. 15 color lithographs in a bound volume illustrating the poetry and music of Georges Fragerolle: color lithograph; book: 24.5 x 32.2 cm (9 5/8 x 12 11/16 in.).Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775-1851, British, The Channel Sketchbook, ca. 1845. Watercolor on medium, slightly textured, white wove paper.published in L'Estampe Originale : Birds of Prey, 1893. Victor Emile Prouvé (French, 1858-1943). Aquatint and etching in green; sheet: 43 x 60.5 cm (16 15/16 x 23 13/16 in.); platemark: 23.9 x 42.4 cm (9 7/16 x 16 11/16 in.).Frieze, Carey Bros. W.P. Mfg. Co., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, founded 1882, Machine-printed, distemper colors, Frieze shows mounted hunters in red coats, with hound dogs, against a landscape background in which green prevails. Filling shows a landscape without figures. Stamped on each upper margin: Carey Bros. W.P. Mfg. Co., and on frieze: 3248., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, 1900-05, Wallcoverings, FriezeBivouac of a Sioux War Party at Sunrise. Dated: 1861/1869. Dimensions: overall: 45.8 x 62.3 cm (18 1/16 x 24 1/2 in.). Medium: oil on card mounted on paperboard. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: George Catlin.View of the Capo della Colonna, 1778 drawing Drawing from the album 'Voyage and Italy, and Sicile et à Malte', 1778. paper. chalk. watercolor (paint) brushfine arts, Gogh, Vinvcent van, (1853 - 1890), drawing, ""the sower on the field"", 1888, pen on paper, 24 cm x 32 cm, Vincent van Gogh museum, Amsterdam,J. Duane Estate. Dated: c. 1936. Dimensions: overall: 51 x 38.2 cm (20 1/16 x 15 1/16 in.). Medium: watercolor, gouache, and graphite on paperboard. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Meyer Goldbaum.Anne Rushout, ca. 1768-1849, British, Sezincote, 1824, 1824. Watercolor and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper.Robert Brandard, 1805-1862, British, Rain, Steam and Speed, 1859-1879. Steel engraving.An Exiled Emperor on Okinoshima by Anonymous / Kimbell Art Museum / ca. 1600 / Japan / Watercolour and ink on paper / Landscape,Mythology, Allegory and Literature / 148x348El Luxor. Date/Period: 1867. Marine art. Watercolor with pen in brown ink over graphite, with white gouache on thick, modertately textured, gray wove paper. Height: 70 mm (2.75 in); Width: 346 mm (13.62 in). Author: Edward Lear.Utopia. Saul Steinberg; American, born Romania, 1914-1999. Date: 1974. Dimensions: 550 x 750 mm. Collage of cut-and-pasted paper, with pen and black ink, black crayon, graphite, watercolor, colored pencil, and rubber stamps in black ink, on ivory wove paper. Origin: United States. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.Vilanova i la Geltrú. Dibujo. Museum: COLECCION PRIVADA. Author: JOAQUIN MIR.Decorative panel, Block printed and hand painted on a combed background, Vertical rectangle. Simulation of elaborately carved oval wood frame, brought to the rectangle by simulated surface of graining. Enclosed in the frame is a painted representation of foliage and two deer., France, 1850-60, Wallcoverings, Decorative panelFir. Staats, Gertrud (1859-1938), draughtsman, cartoonistEdward Lear, 1812-1888, British, Amada, 7:30 am, 12 February 1867 (423), 1867. Watercolor, pen and brown ink, and graphite on moderately thick, moderately textured, brown wove paper.Art Show By Aborigines -- Water Colors by 11 aboriginal artists of the Aranda tribe whose headquarters is the Hermannsburg Mission are being exhibited at the Athenaeum Gallery in a show which will be officially opened tomorrow by the Chief Secretary, Mr. Galvin. Below are some of the paintings in the exhibition. November 18, 1954.The Great Fire at Ryōgoku Bridge, Viewed from Asakusa Bridge on the 26th of January, 1881. Kobayashi Kiyochika (Japan, 1847-1915). Japan, 1881. Prints; woodblocks. Color woodblock printScene tile, blue with landscape with house and tower, corner motif spider, wall tile tile sculpture ceramic earthenware glaze, baked 2x glazed painted