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Edwin Austin Abbey

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Loose charcoal sketch of an older man's head turned three-quarters, with wide eyes and heavy brows on pale paper.

Study for Smith?: sketch for mural for the state capitol building in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, 1902-1911 (completed b…

Watercolor of a yellow-haired figure on a dark rock beside a swimming figure in blue underwater seaweed.

Underwater scene

Pen and ink drawing of two women in long gowns descending a stone staircase past urns and balustrades in a garden.

Ursula: "She's lim'd, I warrant you!; we have caught her, madam." Hero: "If it prove so, then loving goes by haps: So…

1891

Charcoal study on blue-grey paper of a hooded, draped standing figure with head bowed and hand at the chest.

Study for figure of 8 pm in "The Hours" ceiling at the state capitol building in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

1902

Pencil sketch of a gondolier in a hat standing in a gondola, poling with a long oar.

Sketch of a gandoleer

Pastel portrait of a woman in a white tiara and high lace collar, drawn on grey paper.

Coronation of Edward VII Portrait: Princess Beatrice of Battenberg

1903

Pencil sketch of a smiling middle-aged man scratching his head, with two smaller facial studies above.

Study of a middle-aged man, scratching his head

Head and Figure Studies, and Study of a Chair (recto); Sketches for Book Illustrations (verso)

Pen and wash drawing of a seated man at a lamplit table with a standing woman in a long dress in an interior.

Man and woman in an interior - unidentified illustration

Pastel portrait of a mustached man in a red-collared uniform with white cord, on a gray ground.

Coronation of Edward VII Portrait: Prince Charles of Denmark

1904

Ink sketch of a horse carrying a rider and a slung figure through hatched rain, with a cloaked figure at left and handwritten

"Oh, Ransome, Ransome, do no hide mine eyes" (preliminary sketch for 1937.1090) - Act IV, Scene I, All's Well That En…

1891

Ink and wash sketch of a man and woman in a rowboat by a riverbank beneath a leaning tree, rendered in grey tones.

Man and woman in rowboat, near riverbank - unidentified illustration

Grey wash drawing of a mountain peak across water, with wooded shoreline on the right and cloudy sky above.

Highland Scene

1881

Watercolor and pencil study of a slender tree with green leaves against a pale blue wash, with a faint wine glass sketched be

Study of a tree

Pencil drawing of armored medieval knights and spearmen beside a kneeling blindfolded man before a heraldic banner.

Henry: "I pray them bear my former answer back. Bid them achieve me and then sell my bones.", Act IV, scene iii, Henry V

1908

Pastel study of a storm-tossed ship with robed and haloed figures on deck, painted in blues, reds and pale tones.

Study for "Solomon's Ship" in The Quest of the Holy Grail mural series at Boston Public Library

Charcoal and chalk sketch of a seated man gesturing toward a standing woman in a striped gown in an interior.

Petruchio banters Katharina (study for .1058) - Act II, Scene I, Taming of the Shrew

Ink drawing of a man ducking beside a post as a woman throws a vessel from a doorway onto a cobbled street.

Christopher Sly, illustration for Introduction, Scene ii, Taming of the Shrew

1892

Charcoal and chalk sketch of three figures in a dim interior, a standing man gesturing toward a seated woman at a table.

Sketch for an unidentified Shakespeare play

Study of a maid

Pen and ink drawing of armored guards and a hooded woman in a columned hall with robed figures, by Edwin Austin Abbey, 1891.

The Imprisonment of the Queen - Act II, Scene I, The Winter's Tale

1891

Coronation of Edward VII Portrait: William Dalrymple Maclagan, Archbishop

1904

Pencil sketch of a log cabin with a shingled roof, a tall cornfield, and a man in a hat carrying a tool at right.

Uncle Ned's Cabin

1866

Watercolor and pencil costume sketch of a fishmonger in a green and white striped tunic and green cap.

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

Grey watercolor of a calm sea with dark headlands along the horizon, a small sailboat, and a layered cloudy sky.

Water scene with landscape

Ink and wash sketch of soldiers at a Quartermaster stall with barrels, a hanging sack, and a Butter sign.

Civil war sketch (recto); Man viewing a painting (verso)

Pencil sketch on grey paper of a flowering branch with small blossoms and rough rock forms below.

Sketch of a flowering tree branch

Watercolor study of a young woman in a headscarf holding a basket and cup beside a tree and garden wall.

Study of a young girl in a garden

Charcoal sketch on brown paper of female figures with raised arms and flowing drapery in dancing poses.

Figure study for "The Spirit of Light" mural in the rotunda of the Pennsylvania state capitol building, Harrisburg, 1…

Pencil study of a bird wing with fanned primary feathers on grey paper, with soft shading at the joint.

Study of wing for the Infancy of Galahad, from the Quest of the Holy Grail (a series of fifteen paintings for the Bos…

Pen and pencil study of a man in a long coat and wide-brimmed hat with arms folded, with handwritten notes.

Study of a man in coat

Ink and wash drawing of a hunter with a rifle, a seated man with a feathered headband, and a snake in a woodland.

Woodland scene of a hunter, an Indian, and a snake - unidentified illustration