Original Works of Art

Williams and Norgate. London., 1921. FIRST EDITION. Large 8vo.(10.2 x 7.8 inches). Illustrated with 96 plates. Publishers original green cloth binding with gilt lettering and ruling to spine. Binding a bit rubbed and bumped but overall sound and the gilt still bright. This copy has a full page original ink self portrait of Orpen on the front blank endpaper, showing the artist painting the famous American Wall Street lawyer and art collector, Paul Cravath. ---- The drawing is inscribed by Orpen at the bottom of the page "My very dear Mr Cravath-It was a big job to tackle on those hot summer afternoons you must admit. All good wishes in 1922.-------(?) William Orpen". The drawing shows Cravath, a large man who stood 6ft 4inches, sat posing while a much smaller Orpen, the heat rising from his head and his sleeves rolled up, paints the portrait. ------ The book has the bookplate of the prolific author and traveller Cecil Roberts who has written a note on the blank verso of the frontis piece about… Read More

Original Art. Page 34 from the story Naga: per il pelo di zita. Ink on paper. 18 x 25.5 cm. Condition is fine.

Original Art. Story code I-PP88-1. Pencil on 24 x 33 cm Fabriano paper. Signed by the artist on the lower left corner. ; Signed by Artist.

Antwerp: Phillip Galle, 1581. Original Engraving . Single Sheet. Near Fine. 16 Cm x 9.2 Cm. Original Engraving, 6 3/8 X 3 5/8". Maarten De Vos Of Antwerp (1532-1602). De Vos Studied In Rome 1551,Then To Venice Where He Was The Pupil And Friend And Collaborator Of Tintoretto. In 1558 He Returned To Antwerp Where He Worked As A Painter. He Executed Some Engravings, And Was A Prolific Source Of Drawings That Were Then Engraved And Published By Others. In The Twenty Pieces Depicting The Celebrated Women Of The Old Testament, His Drawings Were Engraved By Adrien Collaert (C. 1560-1618) And Karel De Mallery (C, 1576-After 1631), Two Of Phillip Galle's Sons-In-Law, And Adrien's Brother Hans / Jan Collaert (1566-1628). Sara (New Holl. De Vos 224 Ii/Ii), Published In Antwerp By Phillip Galle (1537-1612). This Example Is A Fine, Very Eary Printing, All Lines And Shade Lines Very Sharp. Mounted On A Fragment Of An Album Sheet. Part Of A Large Collection Of Original Antique Engravings Formed By A… Read More

Philadelphia:: Audubon, J.J.,, 1845.. Imperial Folio Edition. Very Good Condition with original hand-coloring. . Original hand-colored lithograph by JT Bowen after painting by John James Audubon, FRS, FLS. Imperial Folio; 213/8 x 27 3/8 inches. Very Good condition; toning to extreme edges of sheet. 1/2 inch chip on top edge. Archivally double matted and framed in 1 inch gilt moulding. A classic Audubon still life: a charming composition of two mice nibbling on a corncob in a harvested field.  The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America (Philadelphia c.1845-48) represents the culmination of a lifelong dream held by America's most prominent naturalist and visionary, John James Audubon (1785-1851). Following the completion of his magnum opus, the Double Elephant Folio Edition of Birds of America, c. 1824-38, Audubon was at liberty to pursue a project close to his heart, large scale portraits of all of North America's native animals. Audubon's effort to render America… Read More

1800. Original Painting . No Binding. Very Good. Antique Painting On Paper, Almost Certainly Nineteenth Century Or Earlier, Depicting Blue Skinned Hindi God And His White Skinned Consort Shooting Each Other With Colored Water Using Water Guns (Pichtari: Tubes With Plungers) In The Hindu Indian Festival Of Holi. The Guns Were Made Of Brass And Most Date From The Mughal Period. Well Preserved, Slight Edgewear, 3/4" Faint Waterspot Near Center. Mounted On White Card, Markedon The Verso With Signature And Stamps Of California Artist Pasquale Giovanni Napolitano (1901-2001) And From His Estate.

1920. No Binding. Fine. Original Textile Embroidery, Abstract Design, Wool On Silk, 7 5/8" X 5 1/2". From The Estate Of Artist Herman (Hermann) Sachs. Born In Romania To Jewish Parents, Herman [Hermann] Sachs Immigrated To The U.S. As A Child. He First Trained Under His German-Born Father, A Painter In The Court Of Queen Elisabeth Of Romania. Sachs Continued His Artistic Training In Europe, Spending The 1910-1920 Period In Germany, Where He Founded The Munich School Of Expressionists (Munich Expressionist Werkstätten). Upon Returning To The United States In 1920, Sachs Exhibited At The Art Institute Of Chicago And Established The Chicago Industrial Art School, Which Soon Failed Due To Lack Of Sufficient Funding. Afterward, Sachs Became The First Director Of The Dayton Museum Of Fine Arts, Now The Dayton Art Institute. During This Time, He Also Served As The U.S. Representative Of Artist George Grosz. Around 1924, Sachs Moved To Los Angeles Where He Designed The Interiors Of The New… Read More

1925. No Binding. Fine. Original Textile Embroidery, Abstract Design, Wool On Linen, 7 1/4" X 4 7/8". From The Estate Of Artist Herman (Hermann) Sachs. Born In Romania To Jewish Parents, Herman [Hermann] Sachs Immigrated To The U.S. As A Child. He First Trained Under His German-Born Father, A Painter In The Court Of Queen Elisabeth Of Romania. Sachs Continued His Artistic Training In Europe, Spending The 1910-1920 Period In Germany, Where He Founded The Munich School Of Expressionists (Munich Expressionist Werkstätten). Upon Returning To The United States In 1920, Sachs Exhibited At The Art Institute Of Chicago And Established The Chicago Industrial Art School, Which Soon Failed Due To Lack Of Sufficient Funding. Afterward, Sachs Became The First Director Of The Dayton Museum Of Fine Arts, Now The Dayton Art Institute. During This Time, He Also Served As The U.S. Representative Of Artist George Grosz. Around 1924, Sachs Moved To Los Angeles Where He Designed The Interiors Of The New… Read More

London Circa 1655: Robert Walton At The Globe And Compass, 1655. 1st Edition 1st Printing. No Binding. Very Good. Original Engraving. Pride: A Well-Dressed Lady With A Fan, Her Hand To Her Forehead. Lettered With Titles Beneath Image, And Four Lines Of Verse. With Producer Names 'G.Glov. Inve. Fecit. Are To Be Sould At The Globe And Compass In St. Paul's Churchyard By Ro: Walton'. Trimmed Closely. Another Printing Of This Engraving Was Sold By William Webb And Annotated Thusly At Bottom. One Of A Large Collection Of Original Antique Engravings Formed By A Southern California Artist In The Early To Middle Twentieth Century. Each Plate Has Small Glue Marks On Reverse Where They Were Tipped In To An Album. George Glover (Active 1625-1650) Was An English Engraver, Working In The Reign Of Charles I. He Mainly Worked For London Publishers, Including Robert Peake, Thomas Banks, John Hinde And Peter Stent The Publisher Robert Walton (1618 - 1688) Sold At The Globe And Compass (Aka Compasses)… Read More

California?, 1897. Original Artwork . No Binding. Good. Oil Portrait, Canvas Mounted On Board. Signed Mann (?) 1897.

(Circa 1925-1945), 1930. Original Art Work . No Binding. Fine. Original Drawing On Paper, Signed, Undated. Well Framed In Contemporary Wood. Charlotte (Carlotta) Kennedy Petrina (1901 - 1997) Was An American Illustrator And Printer. She Was Educated At The Art Students League And At Cooper Union In The 1920'S. Petrina Won A Guggenheim Fellowship In 1933 (Postponed Until 1934) To Do Lithography In Paris. Her "Beautiful But Heartbreaking" Illustrations For John Milton's Paradise Lost Were Published In 1936. The Artist Used Herself As A Model For Eve, And Her Late Husband As The Model For Adam, Lending A Particular Intimacy And Poignancy To The Images. Milton Scholar Virginia Tufte Made A Biographical Film About Petrina, Titled Reaching For Paradise: The Life And Art Of Carlotta Petrina(1994). Petrina Also Illustrated Editions Of Norman Douglas's South Wind (1932), Shakespeare's Henry Vi, Part 2, And The John Dryden Translation Of Virgil's Aeneid(1944). She Made Some… Read More

(Circa 1925), 1925. Original Art Work . No Binding. Fine. Original Watercolor. Period Carved Wood Chinese Frame With New Uv Filter Acrylic By La Artbox, 151/8" X 14 5/8".

A fine archive of three original drawings by the English "mouth artist" John Carter, two letters by his biographer, a copy of the revised edition of Carter's Memoir, and related materials. A fine collection of three original drawings by John Carter (31 July 1815 - 2 June 1850), an English mouth artist, together with a memoir and two autograph letters discussing Carter's work by William James Dampier, Carter's first biographer. The collection also includes a heliotype after a drawing by Carter as well as a list of subscribers to Dampier's memoir. The small collection was apparently presented by Dampier to one of his friends. Original drawings by carter are rare, as most "of his work, now widely dispersed and probably unrecognized, is of course only known from nineteenth century reproductions" (Trevor Disley) John Carter was born in Coggeshall, Essex, "of humble parents", as Dampier notes. At school "he showed a disposition to scribble the figure of a man, a horse, or a bird, upon his desk or copy… Read More

Paris: Jacques Damase, 1973. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Signed by Illustrator(s). 1st Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Complete portfolio of 15 full page pochoirs in colors on Arches paper + 2 'title' page pochoirs illustrating poems by Arthur Rimbaud. Loose folded sheets as issued in publisher's linen wrappers lettered in colors. A bit of yellowing to spine of wrappers. Original red canvas portfolio box with black felt lining and title printed in blue on the front. Poems in French by Arthur Rimbaud, introduction by Jacques Damase. Scattered foxing, mostly to first (blanc) and last (colophon, blanc) leaves. Occasional light foxing to margins of pochoirs and text leaves, minor surface soiling to case. Copy 54 of a limited edition of 90. Hand signed and numbered by Sonia Delaunay. Folio, 56,5 x 39,5 cm. (box).

Washington, D. C.: Mage Pub, 1986. First edition with an original color marker drawing signed by Franta bound in. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published Washington, D. C., Mage, 1986. 4to, 9 3/4" x 11 1/4", 143pp., 109 illustrations, 50 in color, plus original color drawing. Text in English and French. Fine in fine dust jacket. . Signed by Illustrator. 1st. Hard. Fine/Fine. 4to.