Early Original Warbler Watercolor by Edgar Burke
“Blackpoll Warbler”
n.p: 1914. Early Original Warbler Watercolor by Edgar Burke. The bird (an adult male) sits on a branch... Read More about “Blackpoll Warbler&rdquo
Price: $2,000
Artwork
Original works of art, photography, and prints. Including art from the Golden Age of book illustration by Edmund Dulac, Arthur Rackham, and Maxfield Parrish, as well as cartoons, comic books such as George Tuska's Iron Man and Power Man, and works by influential artists.
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"Fisherman's Cot - Lands End Cornwall"
1920. The watercolour is one of a series of travel scenes done in Cornwall , England about 1920. Cornwall was at the time a favourite holiday resort on the western coast of England. Read More about "Fisherman's Cot - Lands End Cornwall"
Price: $450
“Paulmerie” [Extracted from: Encyclopedie, ou Dictionnaire Raisonné des Sciences...
[Paris; Liege: Panckoucke; Plomteux, 1785]. The complete set of these beautiful plates relating to Court Tennis (“le Jeu des Paumes”) from the Récueil de Planches, that extraordinary illustrated supplement to the magnificent Encyclopédie of Diderot and d'Alembert. The plates depict the creation of implements and play of tennis and billiards..... Read More about “Paulmerie” [Extracted from: Encyclopedie, ou Dictionnaire Raisonné des Sciences, des Arts...
Price: $2,500
The Wingèd Coward
Portrait photograph of Noel Coward seated in his living...
[Montreux, Switzerland: ca. 1965]. The Wingèd Coward. A famous image of the playwright in his Swiss chalet, taken by the celebrated Swiss photographer Horst Tappe, INSCRIBED to the novelist (aka "Patrick Quentin") and librettist HUGH WHEELER, who wrote the book for musicals SWEENEY TODD, A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC, and CANDIDE..... Read More about Portrait photograph of Noel Coward seated in his living room, framed by angel's wings
Price: $750
The Master
Portrait of Noel Coward.
New York: n.d. ca late 1930's. The Master. Beautifully composed portrait of Noel Coward, at his most suave and debonair, by the noted photographer of society and stage. Read More about Portrait of Noel Coward
Price: $750
“His Royal back he'd stoop to chase a rolling...
[New York]: [May 1881]. An interesting example of original artwork Cox (1840-1912) appears to have completed for "St Nicholas Illustrated Magazine for Girls and Boys," May 1881. The story is titled "The King and the Clown," and captioned in pencil: "His Royal back he'd stoop / to chase a rolling..... Read More about “His Royal back he'd stoop to chase a rolling hoop Or do the game of leap frog with the wildest...
Price: $1,600
Winter landscape.
[Roslyn, New York: 1942]. Ernest Cramer (1892-1980) was an American artist known for his focus on New York subjects. Read More about Winter landscape
Price: $600
Small Hallmarked sterling silver Quaich. Inscribed on the side...
Sheffield [& London]: Mappin & Webb Ltd, [1923]. Read More about Small Hallmarked sterling silver Quaich. Inscribed on the side "Charles Hodges the Second/...
Price: $1,500
GRAND NATIONAL
An attractive pastel “'Over the water' - Liverpool Grand...
[England]: Ca. 1920. C. Crosley. GRAND NATIONAL. A spirited, somewhat stylized, picture of two horses, jockeys up, taking the water jump at Aintree, with a suggestion of landscape in the background. We have not been able to trace this artist, but he was almost certainly a professional, drawing with a...... Read More about An attractive pastel “'Over the water' - Liverpool Grand National”, signed and titled by the...
Price: $400
Fine pastel and pencil of a Horse's Head between...
[England: Ca. 1920]. C. Crosley. Read More about Fine pastel and pencil of a Horse's Head between a horse shoe with crop and cap beneath
Price: $250
A Superb Social Satire by Robert Cruikshank, Ca. 1820
"Café Burns Characters". Original ink and watercolor drawing on...
London: Ca. 1820. A Superb Social Satire by Robert Cruikshank, Ca. 1820. Isaac Robert Cruikshank, son of Isaac and elder brother of the more famous George, was a caricaturist, illustrator and (particularly apropos of the picture offered here) portrait miniaturist. His first caricatures appeared around 1810 and were often produced..... Read More about "Café Burns Characters". Original ink and watercolor drawing on paper, signed...
Price: $2,250
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Crumb’s ‘Nightmare’, one of 75
The Nightmare [Original signed print].
[San Francisco: n.d., early 1970s]. No. 67 of 75, numbered and signed by the artist (“R. Crumb”) in pencil beneath the image. Crumb’s ‘Nightmare’, one of 75. Striking and characteristic R. Crumb image, the great American underground cartoonist’s hommage to Fuseli’s celebrated painting of the same title, rendered in a...... Read More about The Nightmare [Original signed print
Price: $900
Anti-Semitic Hungarian Caricatures
Album of 89 original pen and ink drawings, probably...
Budapest: 1890-1900. Anti-Semitic Hungarian Caricatures. Pasted on the first page of this intriguing album is the cover of a 1900 art exhibition and the page listing this artist, his Budapest address, and the number of his exhibition entry. The drawings are carefully and competently executed, and are mostly of middle-class..... Read More about Album of 89 original pen and ink drawings, probably used as the illustrations to captioned...
Price: $2,500
“Breton”.
Given to Cummings’ Harvard schoolmate and good friend S. Foster Damon, poet and teacher at Brown University. Subsequently given to Ernest Costa, who, under Damon’s influence became a librarian at Brown. Read More about “Breton”
Price: $3,000
From E.E. Cummings to Allen Tate
“Marion”.
n.d. From E.E. Cummings to Allen Tate. An oil bust portrait of Cummings’ wife, Marion Morehouse, given to Allen Tate. With an inscription from Cummings to Tate and a letter from Tate’s wife establishing the provenance of the painting. Read More about “Marion”
Price: $4,500
From the Private Cabinet of an American Quaker
Collection of engravings for an unidentified edition of Jean...
N.p. [France]: n.d. [1700s]. From the Private Cabinet of an American Quaker. T. Wistar Brown was the descendant of the Philadelphia Quaker family of Moses Brown and Mary Wain Wistar. Author and poet Henry Goddard Leach married T. Wistar Brown’s daughter, Agnes. Read More about Collection of engravings for an unidentified edition of Jean de la Fontaine’s CONTES ET...
Price: $850
The Curragh Race Course, County Kildare, Ireland, showing 8...
New York: Published by Farrell & Co. 37 Spring St. NY, 1867. Peters, America on Stone "...is one of the crudest lithographs. I almost considered putting it as an example of the type to be avoided..." The Curragh Racecourse in Kildare is the head quarters of horse racing in Ireland..... Read More about The Curragh Race Course, County Kildare, Ireland, showing 8 horses reaching the finish line with...
Price: $850
Fine Drawing of Photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt
Portrait of Alfred Eisenstadt in profile in pen and...
Tokyo: 45-46. Fine Drawing of Photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt. A delightful profile caricature of the famed photographer by Currie. Read More about Portrait of Alfred Eisenstadt in profile in pen and ink and watercolor on paper. Inscribed...
Price: $450
“Darktown Fire Brigade. The Foreman on Parade”.
New York: Currier & Ives, 1885. One of the “Darktown Fire Brigade Series”: with the sub-caption, “De gals all mire me so much dey makes me blush.”. Read More about “Darktown Fire Brigade. The Foreman on Parade”
Price: $750
“On the Shores at Nootka”.
[Boston: D. Sacilotto for Charles Lauriat’s, 1967]. Plate 366 from The North American Indian. A fine restrike from the original plate from Curtis’ masterpiece, The North American Indian. Read More about “On the Shores at Nootka”
Price: $750
Photograph of a Russian Orthodox Church in Uzhgorad, Czechoslovakia.
[Uzhgorod, Czechoslovakia: 1937]. Printed circa 1984. A haunting, early image by this super Ukrainian-born photographer (1902 - 1995), whose work for LIFE magazine won him international acclaim. Read More about Photograph of a Russian Orthodox Church in Uzhgorad, Czechoslovakia
Price: $300
Albumen photograph of wheat harvest with steam-powered thresher and...
Grand Forks, Dakota: W. Caswell, Photographer, [c. 1870s]. Little is known of William Caswell, save in 1877 he formed a partnership with Simon Duffin in Winnipeg, having previously operated out of Duluth, Minnesota and Grand Forks. This photograph, with Caswell's Grand Forks stamp dates from the 1870's, the era of..... Read More about Albumen photograph of wheat harvest with steam-powered thresher and thirteen laborers
Price: $500