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Black and coloured chalks, white bodycolour, and pen and ink on pale pink prepared paper. 27.8 × 20.8 cm. Margaret à Barrow, Lady Elyot was the wife of the English diplomat and scholar Sir Thomas Elyot. [ 77] A drawing of her husband, by Holbein, is also in the Royal Collection.
Sketches by "Boz," Illustrative of Every-day Life and Every-day People (commonly known as Sketches by Boz) is a collection of short pieces Charles Dickens originally published in various newspapers and other periodicals between 1833 and 1836. They were re-issued in book form, under their current title, in February and August 1836, with ...
Died. ( 1863-12-04) 4 December 1863. Nationality. British. Known for. landscape painter. James Duffield Harding (1798 – 4 December 1863) was a British landscape painter, lithographer and author of drawing manuals. His use of tinted papers and opaque paints in watercolour proved influential.
Died. April 6, 1891. (1891-04-06) (aged 62) Marietta, Georgia, US. Alfred Rudolph Waud (Pronounced: / wɔːd /; October 2, 1828 – April 6, 1891) was an American artist and illustrator, born and raised in London, England. He is most notable for the sketches he made as an artist correspondent during the American Civil War.
The Visionary Heads is a series of black chalk and pencil drawings produced by William Blake after 1818 by request of John Varley, the watercolour artist and astrologer. The subjects of the sketches, many of whom are famous historical and mythical characters, appeared to Blake in visions during late night meetings with Varley, as if sitting for ...
Rosecliff in Newport, Rhode Island, was built for a silver heiress during the Gilded Age. It measures 28,800 square feet and features 30 rooms, including Newport's largest ballroom.
Size: 25.9 x 19.7 cm. Location: Private Collection. Infernal Landscape previously thought to have been made by an assistant in the workshop of medieval Dutch artist Hieronymus Bosch has been authenticated as a piece by the master himself by the Bosch Research and Conservation Project (BRCP). The BRCP is an international art history study that ...
Dimensions. 48.1 cm × 36.7 cm (18.9 in × 14.4 in) Location. Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands. The earliest known works of Vincent van Gogh comprise a group of paintings and drawings that Vincent van Gogh made when he was 27 and 28, in 1881 and 1882. Over the course of the two-year period Van Gogh lived in several places.