All Items : Fine Art : Drawings : Pencil : Pre 1900 item #1422194 (stock #JB05038)
A charming little drawing, exceptionally well-traveled, and with a story to tell: pencil on paper, 6 1/2" by 9 3/4" inside the present mat opening, 12 1/2" by 15 3/8" as framed, not signed, but with inscription "Cesanne Aug. 13/74" at lower right, and "copper buckets" at lower left. And, on the backing, written in a modern hand: "Purchased at Kingston, Jamaica Municipal Art Museum/The date is 1874--purchased previous to 1974. Probably a sketch of town fountain in rural France...
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Etchings : Pre 1900 item #1479768
Jean Baptiste Camille Corot 1796-1875 French This is a fine rich impression of the well known Corot etching Souvenir of Italy, this was first created in 1863, and printed in three states, including later ones with the publishers information at the bottom edge of the sheet. This one does not have that so may be an earlier or possibly later impression. The image measures 12 9/16X9 3/8 inches, printed on an antique laid type paper. Very fine condition, matted not framed...
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Pre 1900 item #1473978 (stock #3071)
A beautiful Japanese woodblock print circa 1880s, depicting a scene from the famous Kabuki Theatre.,measuring 22” x 17” Hirsh Estate
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Pre 1900 item #1426390 (stock #TBD00343)
Hand colored lithograph of the excavation of two Lamassu, an Assyrian deity, at Nimrud near Mosul. They guarded an Assyrian palace. From Sketches between the Persian Gulf and Black Sea, Robert Clive. London: Dickinson, 1852. Robert Clive shows the dramatic unearthing of the statues.

The lithograph surrounded by a thin line and the printed information: “R. CLIVE, DEL” (lower left), “EXCAVATIONS ON THE MOUND AT NIMROUD.” (center) and “DICKINSON & CO LITH.” (lower right)...

All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1900 item #1441259 (stock #205)
L'Enfant Gallery
$1,200.00
Lago Maggiore late Nineteenth Century watercolor Artist B. Clark 13x9 inches,framed size 19x16”
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1900 item #1421428 (stock #938)
Original antique English watercolor titled "Fox Gloves by Stream" signed by Joseph Poole Addey (1852-1922), dated 1889. Addey was an especially gifted watercolorist. Born in Dublin, he studied at the Royal Dublin Society School of Design and the Cork School of Art. He began exhibiting at the RHA in 1877, and over the next forty years showed over 130 paintings. Image size: 19x29”, overall dimensions: 29.5 x 38.5”. less
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Pre 1900 item #1440826 (stock #3274)
Japanese Woodblock Print Nineteenth Century Geisha Women17x21 inches. Call or email. We have a rare and fine selection of Japanese art dating to 1860
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Pre 1900 item #1449569
L'Enfant Gallery
$6,000.00
French Orientalist Painter Alexander De Bar 1821-1908, views of the Nile, 11x17 inches, done in 1859 as a commemoration of the opening of the Suez Canal.
All Items : Fine Art : Drawings : Pre 1900 item #1415347 (stock #JB03370)
Watercolor and ink drawing of a stone house adjacent to a dirt road on which a horse is pulling a buggy, a split rail fence, trees and a cow completing this bucolic scene of times gone by, the art in an oval, vignette style, the painted area 5" by 6 1/2", 13 1/2" by 15" in modern framing, possibly signed at lower left but definitely dated there either 32 or 34. This is a very, very early drawing...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Pre 1900 item #1477163 (stock #3204)
L'Enfant Gallery
$3,500.00
A Spanish Colonial oil on canvas painting depicting Christ and The Holy Spirit near The Cross, with Saint Peter as Pope. Measuring about 24” x 20”, the work mounted on its original oak Done likely for Mexico about 1690
All Items : Fine Art : Sculpture : Clay : Pre 1900 item #1457634 (stock #2392)
L'Enfant Gallery
Price on Request
Abraham Lincoln Bust By Leonard W. Volk 1828-1895 32”x24” Original plaster made from the life mask that was done for Lincoln in 1860. The artist did both plaster and bronze large and small formats somewhere designed as Hermes format others were done such as this piece in the classical style 32”x24”
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Etchings : Pre 1900 item #1244778
Charles Adams Platt, American, 1861-1933, "Canal Boats and Tugs", etching, image size 4 1/4 x 6 7/8 inches, 1887, cat: Rice-85, plate signed and dated. A rich impression in sepia ink.
All Items : Fine Art : Drawings : Pencil : Pre 1900 item #1453113 (stock #1584)
L'Enfant Gallery
$1,600.00
“Cottage Entrance” By Artist Alfred Huntley Graphite Drawing signed 18x21” done in the mater of Whistler circa 1890
All Items : Fine Art : Drawings : Charcoal : Pre 1900 item #1449507 (stock #1323)
L'Enfant Gallery
$20,000.00
Xanthus Russell Smith (February 26, 1839, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – December 2, 1929, Glenside, Pennsylvania) was an American marine painter best known for his illustrations of the American Civil War.………….. The most historic event of Kearsarge's history was her historic duel with the Alabama off Cherbourg, France in 1864 as it was the only naval duel in which an American warship was one of the principals. On 19 June, Alabama stood out of Cherbourg Harbor for her last action...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1900 item #1419550 (stock #JB02280)
Watercolor with gouache highlights on paper painting 13 3/4" by 9 1/2" inside the mat, of a large and impressive castle on a hill, (possibly Windsor Castle near London), a pastoral landscape with figures in the foreground, signed in pencil at lower right "A WATT". There is a listing for an Arthur George Watt (1883-1935) but I doubt this be the same artist, as the techniques and style do not mesh and the dates are wrong; this drawing is earlier...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1900 item #1420343 (stock #JB02784)
The watercolor scene depicts a tent housekeeping camp on the shore of a body of water, with four figures, all African-American, in the composition, making it therefore quite unusual and scarce. The date of execution might be circa 1880 I feel, given the dress and the primitive camp set-up. The work is an historical record of African-American life in the 19th century. Size is 9 5/8" by 13 1/2" inside the mat, 18 1/4" by 22" in the narrow gold framing...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Pre 1900 item #1441811 (stock #497)
L'Enfant Gallery
$12,000.00
Dutch seascape, cards at Waters edge, signed FRILING Oil on canvas measuring 24 x 34“ and it’s original 19 century frame measuring 34 x 46“ Most likely a scene of the beach at Scheveningen, signed but signature largely illegible, appears to be dated "09," which along with the style of execution would suggest an affinity if not affiliation with the Amsterdam Impressionists who were active during the late 19th century into the early 20th...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1900 item #1419003 (stock #JB0841)
Watercolor on paper, unsigned, undated but likely dating from the period 1865 to 1885, 15 3/4" by 11 3/8" inside the mat, (27 1/2" by 22 1/2" as framed, but **frame is currently unaccounted for since photos were taken**), showing two young schoolgirls in the yard of a brick and wood shutters style mid nineteenth century home, such as would be found in Boston's Beacon Hill, or parts of New York City...