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Edwin Austin Abbey

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Pencil sketch of a woman in a doorway of a horse-drawn cart, captioned "Aunt Eunice comes home".

"Aunt Eunice comes home" - unidentified illustration

Charcoal and white chalk sketch on brown paper of a bearded man seated with his hand raised to his head.

Study for one of the murals from The Quest of the Holy Grail (a series of 15 paintings for the Boston Public Library,…

1883

Pen drawing of a classical banquet under Ionic columns, with a bearded man in the foreground and women dancing with garlands.

Apemantus: "Hoy-day! what a sweep of vanity comes this way! They dance! They are mad women!" - Act I, Scene II, Timon…

1902

Pencil and watercolor sketch of a young boy lying on his side with one arm stretched out, on torn-edge paper.

Study of a young boy, lying down

Charcoal and white chalk study of hands on blue-grey paper, drawn as preparation for a painting.

Study of hands for "A Pavane" (oil painting)

Pencil costume sketch of a standing figure in a long robe with ruffled collar, with handwritten notes on sleeves and braid.

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

Pen and ink drawing of a crowded 18th-century ale house with men drinking, smoking, and a waiter serving drinks.

An Ale House Room - "Tony sings the Three Pigeons," illustration for Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer

1884

Pen and ink drawing of a decorative calligraphic page with red illuminated initials and a pen-drawn circular seal below.

Title page design, Scribner's Magazine, 1894

1894

Pencil sketch of a horse standing beside a wooden barn, with a stone wall, milk can and trough in a farmyard.

Sketch of a farmyard, with a horse

Charcoal study of a standing man in a long cloak gazing upward, with a small hand sketch at lower left, on grey paper.

Figure study for King Arthur's Round Table (recto); Figure study for The Departure (verso), from The Quest of the Hol…

Pencil sketch of an industrial workshop with a riveted tank machine on wheels beneath timber roof beams.

Sketch of "Tank Department" [industrial interior]

Costume sketch of two standing figures in dark tunics, red hoods and yellow stockings, labeled Richard II servant and gaoler.

Sewart to Gaoler, costume sketch for King Richard II

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

Printed sheet of numbered comic panels with Dutch verses, showing a burglary story, a fairy dream and a central cave scene.

Een onnoozele inbreker

1905

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