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Edwin Austin Abbey

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Pen and ink drawing of an 18th-century woman with a cane and a man in breeches leaning toward her in a garden.

Illustration for "Sweet Nell - My Heart's Delight," from Old Songs

1887

Medieval street scene with a man in red standing over a fallen figure beside a striped Gothic church, onlookers and swordsmen

The Death of Mercutio - Act III, Scene I, Romeo and Juliet

1902

Pen and ink drawing of a man leaning on a fence above a boy with a fishing rod beside a stream bank.

"I knew him well, and every truant knew," illustration for Oliver Goldsmith's The Deserted Village (London and New Yo…

Ink and wash drawing of a man in a wide-brimmed hat on a rearing horse beside a wooden fence.

Unidentified illustration [Man on horseback]

Pencil sketch of a plumed rider on horseback with a lance, and rough sketches of sailing ships above on tan paper.

Study for Columbus in the New World(?) (oil painting)

Grey wash drawing of two seated women on a grassy slope, with a white fence, a cottage and swallows over a sandy bank.

Study for "Two Wives"

Watercolor and pencil costume sketch of three jester figures in colorful motley with pointed hoods and bells.

Fools, costume sketch for Henry Irving's Planned Production of King Richard II

Grey wash sketch of a cottage with a steep roof, dormer window, wooden bench, and clouds on tan paper.

Sketch of exterior of a cottage

Charcoal study of a seated man in draped cloth, head turned toward viewer, on gray paper.

Figure study for "Penn's Treaty," mural for the state capitol building in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, 1902-1911 (comple…

Pen and ink sketch of a ragged peasant with hood and staff, with faint pencil figure studies to the right.

Peasant, sketch for an unidentified Shakespeare play

Pencil and watercolor study of a woman with raised arms in a red-patterned gown over a squared grid, with blue and green wash

Study for Louis Comfort Tiffany's center window for "Children's Window", St. Peter's Church, Morristown, NJ

Watercolor sketch of a woman with long hair combing it, standing in a green wooded landscape beside a dark tree trunk.

Woman in landcape, combing her long, blond hair - (unidentified illustration)

Pen and ink study of a robed angel with clasped hands and spread wings, surrounded by radiating hatched lines.

Study of an Angel, for The Quest of the Holy Grail (series of fifteen paintings for the Boston Public Library, comple…

Pencil sketch of a horse pulling a carriage with a spoked wheel and seated driver, with loose shading in the background.

Sketch of a horse pulling a carriage

Pen sketches of a bust beside a handwritten letter from Harper & Brothers dated March 15, 1890.

Two sketches of a bust

Pencil sketch of cypress trees, rolling hills and a domed building in a rural landscape, with handwritten notes below.

Roman(?) landscape as seen from balcony (recto); Seascape (verso)

Grey wash drawing of a candlelit 18th-century room with seated men and a standing figure in a long coat near a fireplace.

"Around my fire an evening group to draw" study for The Deserted Village

1898

Ink sketches of a cow with handwritten verse lines and crossed bugles drawn on aged paper.

Sketches of Cows

Loose pencil sketch of a man bent forward with arms extended downward, as if shoveling, on a cream sheet.

Study of a figure shoveling

Watercolor costume sketch of an armored knight in heraldic tabard, with pencil notes, for Richard II.

Aumerle (armed), costume sketch for Henry Irving's 1898 Planned Production of Richard II

Pen and ink sketch of a man in a feathered cap and steel armor with a gorget and pauldron, unfinished lower body.

Sketch of a knight in armor

Charcoal and white chalk sketch of three men in hats and cloaks in a dim room, one seated beside a desk.

Three men, study for Taming of the Shrew (?)

Nude male figure study, life class

Sheet of sketches of faces and bodies

Charcoal and white chalk study of two hands gripping a vertical pole on blue-gray paper.

Sketch of two hands climbing a pole

1889

Pastel costume sketch of a standing man in green tunic, white headcloth and red-lined sleeves holding a staff, labeled Bushy.

Bushy, costume sketch for King Richard II

Watercolor costume sketch of a man in a cream fur-trimmed cloak, red hose, and red hat, labeled Aumerle.

Aumerle, costume sketch for Henry Irving's Planned Productino of King Richard II

Brown ink sketch of a helmeted man holding a sword, with a smaller head study at upper right, on squared paper.

Sketch for "Endicott Cutting the Cross from the King's Banner"

1875

Pencil sketch of a man in a wide hat and coat with a walking stick, beside a small boy, with a dark shadow at left.

Man and Boy (recto); Heads and Figures of Chinamen (verso)

Ink sketch of two seated men, one in a wide-brimmed hat and one in a top hat, on a cream sheet with a handwritten note.

Sheet of studies both sides, pilgrims, etc.

Man in apron holding a gun

Pencil sketch of a young child with bowed head and loosely drawn curly hair, body indicated by quick lines on white paper.

Portrait of an unidentified child