N. C. Wyeth

 N. C. Wyeth 

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Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley
Published by Charles Scribner's Sons ~ 1920

Fortunino Matania

 

King Charles I and Parliament (Original) (Signed)

Artist: Fortunino Matania
Medium: Pen & Ink on Board
Size: 7" x 5" (170mm x 130mm)
Date: 1956
Signature: Signed by Artist lower right

This is the Signed original Pen & Ink drawing by Fortunino Matania.

One of a series of original pen and ink illustrations by Matania drawn for a history of Britain through the ages. As always with Matania what appears a simple pen and ink work turns into a mini masterpiece. Signed lower right.

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Henry VIII at Hampton Court (Original) (Signed)

Artist: Fortunino Matania Medium: Pen & Ink on Board
Size: 6" x 5" (160mm x 130mm)
Date: 1956
Signature: Signed by Artist lower right

This is the Signed original Pen & Ink drawing by Fortunino Matania.

One of a series of original pen and ink illustrations by Matania drawn for a history of Britain through the ages.

Presenting The Magna Carta (Original) (Signed)

Artist: Fortunino Matania
Medium: Pen & Ink on Board
Size: 7" x 5" (170mm x 125mm)
Date: 1956
Signature: Signed by Artist bottom left

This is the Signed original Pen & Ink drawing by Fortunino Matania.

The Barons of England present the first charter of rights for a reluctant King John to sign at Runnymede, near London. One of a series of original pen and ink illustrations by Matania drawn for a history of Britain through the ages.

Albert Levering

 

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  Albert Levering

 This cartoon by Albert Levering appeared in a 1905 issue of Life magazine and imagines the lap-dog sized horse of a thousand years hence.

Physiognotrace portrait of Thomas Jefferson

Physiognotrace portrait of Thomas Jefferson

Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin (1770-1852), Physiognotrace portrait of Thomas Jefferson, n.d. [1804]. Engraving and copperplate. 7.1 x 6.6 cm. Graphic Arts French prints. Gift of Charles Scribner Jr., Class of 1943. 

 

originally posted by Julie L. Mellby on February 26, 2012 on the Graphic Arts Collection, Princeton University Library

 

The French musician Gilles-Louis Chrétien (1754-1811) invented the physiognotrace (physionotrace in French) in 1887. He used the apparatus to trace the silhouette of a sitter and at the same time, create a reduced copy, which could be used to engrave a lifelike image on a copper plate. Chalk drawings and oil sketches were also made using this technique. One of Chrétien’s earliest sitters was Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), who paid for the privilege while in Paris.
Eight years later, the French émigré Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin (1770-1852) brought a physiognotrace to the United States and Jefferson, now age sixty-one, again sat for a portrait. According to records at Monticello, Jefferson purchased 48 prints of his own portrait and collected a number of other portraits of friends and colleagues, which sold for about $25 each.
Both a print and the copper plate are on view in our Leonard L. Milberg Gallery for the exhibition, Capping Liberty: The Invention of a Numismatic Iconography for the New American Republic, on view through July 8, 2012.
See also Howard Rice, “Saint-Memin’s Portrait of Jefferson,” Princeton University Library Chronicle 20 (Summer 1959): 182-92. http://libweb5.princeton.edu/visualmaterials/pulc/pulcv20n_4.pdf
See also Thomas Jefferson Encyclopedia, Monticello: http://www.monticello.org/site/research-and-collections/jefferson-portrait-saint-m%C3%A9min-physiognotrace

Paul Weber (German, 1823-1916)

 

Paul Weber (German, 1823-1916)  

pencil on paper

H: 6 1/16 x W: 4 15/16 in. (15.4 x 12.6 cm) 

 

 Paul Weber studied in Frankfurt, Germany, and then immigrated to the United States in 1848 at the age of 25. He settled in Philadelphia and exhibited frequently at the Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts. He returned to Europe in 1857 and, in 1860, was appointed court painter at Darmstadt, then the capital of the duchy of Hesse-Darmstadt. His landscapes were particularly admired by American collectors for their dramatic effects.

 

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Ward, Bill (William Hess)

 William Hess Ward (March 6, 1919 - November 17, 1998), known as Bill Ward, was an American cartoonist notable as a good girl artist and creator of the risqué comics character Torchy.

His work has appeared in comics titles such as Humorama Magazine, Sex to Sexty, Joker, and so many other Men's Magazines from the 1950's through the 1970's. Early in his career Bill Ward also worked for Military Comics and he even took over for Reed Crandall on Blackhawk after Crandall had been drafted during WW2.

After the war Ward brought Torchy to comics where she appeared in both Modern and Doll Man for almost 3 years. As Romance titles grew in popularity Ward was pulled off Torchy to work on other titles and the artist Gill Fox, a long time friend of Ward's, took over much of the duty of illustrating Torchy. The Telephone Girl was a recurring theme in many of Bill Ward's pinup illustrations and are some of the most prized pieces of Ward's to Pinup Art Collectors. Bill Ward also contributed to titles such as Cracked in the 1970's. · Updated about a month ago

Anonymous

 

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Preparation for Portrait Engraving of Artist in Frame

Anonymous, French, 18th century

Date: 18th century

Medium: Black chalk

Dimensions: sheet: 17 3/16 x 12 1/2 in. (43.7 x 31.7 cm)

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 The Grumbacker Library's

"The Art of Drawing Heads and Hands".

 

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Baccio Bandinelli

 

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Baccio Bandinelli
(Italian, Gaiole in Chianti 1493–1560 Florence)

 

Study for a Standing Young Man, Raising a Curtain and Looking at Left

Date: 1518–19

Medium: Red chalk

Dimensions: 15 x 10-5/16 in. (38.1 x 26.2 cm)

Classification: Drawings

Wilhelm M. Busch

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Wilhelm M. Busch

 

 

In 1948 WILHELM M.BUSCH illustrated this collection of fairy tales about a ghost from the mountain region in eastern germany.
© wilhelm m.busch / ensslin verlag reutlingen

Arthur Rackham

 

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Arthur Rackham

 ~ The Ring of the Niblung

CLARA ELSENE PECK

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CLARA ELSENE PECK

1883 ~ 1968

A Lady of King Arthur's Court

by Sara Hawks Sterling

Published by George W. Jacobs & Co ~ 1907

 

 

 

Harold Von Schmidt

 

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Harold Von Schmidt 

 1929  Death Comes For The Archbishop: 

Bernie Wrightson

 

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Bernie Wrightson

Original Unused Cover Art Rough to Batman: The Cult #4 (DC, 1988) 

12"x17.75"

Arthur Ignatius Keller

 

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Arthur Ignatius Keller

 

LEONARDO da Vinci

 

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LEONARDO da Vinci

(b. 1452, Vinci, d. 1519, Cloux, near Amboise)

Isabella d'Este

1500
Black and red chalk, yellow pastel chalk on paper, 63 x 46 cm
Musée du Louvre, Paris

The cartoon shows the portrait of Isabella d'Este. Holes were made in it so that it could be transferred, but these perforations do not match all the details of the drawing precisely, in some places correcting them with great sensitivity. Leonardo probably produced these perforations himself. The cartoon has clearly been trimmed and is in a poor state of preservation, so that it is no longer possibly to state with any certainty whether the unusual colouring with coloured chalks was produced by Leonardo himself.

Herbert Paus

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Herbert Paus

"The Yellow-Footed Bird"
Collier's, 1918

Kim Sang-jin

 

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Kim Sang-jin

 

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Louis-Léopold Boilly

 

 

Title	Compositional Drawing for 'Entrance to the Jardin Turc'
Object type	drawing
Date	about 1810 - 1812
Medium	Brown ink and graphite
Dimensions	Height: 279 mm (10.98 in). Width: 381 mm (15 in).
Current location	The J. Paul Getty Museum

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Ray Patterson

 

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Harrison Fisher

 

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W. Herbert Dunton and J.N. Marchand

 Alfred Henry Lewis. Faro Nell and her friends.
Illustrations by W. Herbert Dunton and J.N. Marchand.
Published 1913 by G.W. Dillingham Company in New York.

 

J.N. Marchand.

Images from: book-graphics

 

J.N. Marchand.

W. Herbert Dunton