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Chinese Woman: a pencil portrait. William Alexander.

Chinese Woman: a pencil portrait.

Alexander (1767-1816) was particularly noted for his pencil and watercolor portraits of Chinese people, of which this frontal bust drawing is a fine, typical example. Many of these derive from his lengthy stay in Peking, beginning in 1792; on his return to London he became a professor of art, and... Read More

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Anastatic Drawing Society, for the years 1855-57, and 1860. The Ilam Anastatic Drawing Society, for 1862, Vol. XI (1871), Vol. XII (1872), edited by Rev. G.R. Mackarness. [AND] Anastatic Drawing Society, for the years 1876, 1877, Vol. XX (1882), Vol. XXI (1883), Vol. XXII (1884-86), and Vol. XXIII (1887-89), edited by Llewellyn Jewitt

Anastatic Drawing Society, for the years 1855-57, and 1860. The Ilam Anastatic Drawing Society, for 1862, Vol. XI (1871), Vol...

Ashby-De-La-Zouch; (Vols. XXII & XXIII) Ipswich: S.H. Cowell, 1855-1889. “The object of the Society is to delineate remains of Antiquity; e.g. ancient Ecclesiastical, Military, and Domestic Edifices, Sepulchral Monuments, Fonts, Brasses, Stained Glass, Tiles, Armour, Dress, Jewellry, Plate Embroidery, Furniture, Carvings, Illuminstions of ancient MSS, Copies of rare Prints, Portraits... Read More

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Sketchbook of 19 pages of pencil and pen and ink sketches and captioned cartoons, all signed by initials S.B. and dated (January to April 1896). C. Stanley Bate.

Original Late Victorian Cartoon Sketchbook

Sketchbook of 19 pages of pencil and pen and ink sketches and captioned cartoons, all signed by initials S.B. and...

London: 1896. Original Late Victorian Cartoon Sketchbook. An amateur production, but quite a nice one. The artist, residing at 170 Loughboro Road, Brixton, was heavily influenced by the work of the great comic artist Phil May, and comes quite close to May's spirit and technique, particularly in his depiction of... Read More

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Bon-Mots. Aubrey Beardsley, Sydney Smith, R. Brinsley Sheridan.

With Beardsley “Grotesques”, One of 100 Large Paper Copies

Bon-Mots.

London: J.M. Dent, 1893. Large Paper Edition, No. 100 of 100 copies on Large Paper. With Beardsley “Grotesques”, One of 100 Large Paper Copies. A compilation of the witticisms of the great wit, and dramatist. Sprinkled throughout are small drawings by Beardsley, most of them delightfully decadent and, truly, grotesque... Read More

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Heroes and Heroines of Bitter Sweet. Max Beerbohm.

Heroes and Heroines of Bitter Sweet.

[London]: [1931]. Beerbohm, Max. First edition, Number 134 of 900 copies. At the request of Charles Cochran, the producer of Noel Coward's 1929 operetta, Beerbohm did drawings of Coward, Cochran, and the principals: Peggy Wood, Georges Metaxa, and Ivy St. Helier. This was the last book of caricatures Beerbohm published. Read More

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Lord Londonderry. Sir Max Beerbohm.

Lord Londonderry.

1932. Excellent portrait in Beerbohms's characteristic style of Charles Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 7th Marquess of Londonderry (1878-1949), Conservative politician, sometime Minister of the Air and second cousin to Winston Churchill. Read More

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Japanese Street Vendor Carrying Her Child. Katie Blackmore.

Original Watercolor by Katie Blackmore

Japanese Street Vendor Carrying Her Child.

Ca. 1930. Blackmore, Katie. Original Watercolor by Katie Blackmore. An exquisite and highly decorative sudy of a kimono-clad woman against a black india ink background. Katie Blackmore, R.B.A., (fl. 1920-1950) was noted for the delicacy of her detail as well as her keen sense of design, and both are amply... Read More

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