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| Indian and Japanese drawings collected by Alfred Bendiner, ca. 1800 - 1920 | |||||||||||||
| Call No.: LOT 13160 (H) | |||||||||||||
| Drawings of Indian gods and goddesses; Japanese drawings showing a man riding a donkey and medical procedure. | |||||||||||||
| [Japanese man riding a donkey], [between 1800 and 1899] | |||||||||||||
| Creator: Unattributed | |||||||||||||
| Call No.: LOT 13160, no. 1 (H) | |||||||||||||
| Extent: 1 drawing on kozo paper: ink and wash ; 17.5 x 13 cm (sheet) | |||||||||||||
| [Two women making tea and a man sits reading while receiving a medical treatment involving heat application], [between 1800 and 1899] | |||||||||||||
| Creator: Unattributed | |||||||||||||
| Call No.: LOT 13160, no. 2 (H) | |||||||||||||
| Extent: 1 drawing on laid rice paper: ink ; 20 x 30.5 cm (sheet) | |||||||||||||
| Note: Drawing shows a medical treatment similar to acupuncture, with heat used instead of needles. The older woman on right burns incense, used to heat cotton then applied to the body. The man has small dots on his back indicating where the cotton has been applied. | |||||||||||||
| Lakhnainetti g, [ca. 1920] | |||||||||||||
| Creator: Unattributed | |||||||||||||
| Call No.: LOT 13160, no. 3 (H) | |||||||||||||
| Extent: 1 drawing on wove paper: ink, watercolor, gouache, and silver metallic paint ; 19.5 x 15.5 cm (sheet) | |||||||||||||
| Note: Two figures standing on a pedestal. Inscribed below image and translated: goddess. This drawing is probably from the western region of Gujart in India. | |||||||||||||
| Narsingh, [ca. 1920] | |||||||||||||
| Creator: Unattributed | |||||||||||||
| Call No.: LOT 13160, no. 4 (H) | |||||||||||||
| Extent: 1 drawing on paper: ink, watercolor, gouache, and silver metallic paint ; 20 x 15.5 cm (sheet) | |||||||||||||
| Note: A figure with four arms standing on a pedestal. | |||||||||||||
| [Female figure flanked by elephants], [ca. 1920] | |||||||||||||
| Creator: Unattributed | |||||||||||||
| Call No.: LOT 13160, no. 5 (H) | |||||||||||||
| Extent: 1 drawing on wove paper: ink, watercolor, gouache, and gold ; 14.5 x 20.5 cm (sheet) | |||||||||||||
| [Male figure surrounded by four elephants], [ca. 1920] | |||||||||||||
| Creator: Unattributed | |||||||||||||
| Call No.: LOT 13160, no. 6 (H) | |||||||||||||
| Extent: 1 drawing on paper: ink, watercolor, gouache, and silver metallic paint ; 10.5 x 17 cm (sheet) | |||||||||||||
| Mahdeo [and] Parbati, [ca. 1920] | |||||||||||||
| Creator: Unattributed | |||||||||||||
| Call No.: LOT 13160, no. 7 (H) | |||||||||||||
| Extent: 1 drawing on paper: ink, watercolor, gouache, and gold metallic paint ; 20 x 16 cm (sheet) | |||||||||||||
| Note: Female figure with an Indian goddess seated on a tiger. Mahdeo means great goddess. She was the consort of Sheba. Parbati is also a name meaning god or goddess. | |||||||||||||
| Ganesh g, [ca. 1920] | |||||||||||||
| Creator: Unattributed | |||||||||||||
| Call No.: LOT 13160, no. 8 (H) | |||||||||||||
| Extent: 1 drawing on paper: ink, watercolor, gouache, and gold metallic paint ; 20 x 16 cm (sheet) | |||||||||||||
| Note: Image of an Indian god with the head of an elephant. Ganesh is a god and the letter "g" in the title denotes greatness. | |||||||||||||
| Castigat ridano mores, Alessandria elegante, 1880 - 1940 | |||||||||||||
| Call No.: LOT 13162 (H) | |||||||||||||
| Castigat ridando mores, Alessandria elegante, [between 1880 and 1940] | |||||||||||||
| Creator: Unattributed | |||||||||||||
| Call No.: LOT 13162, no. 1-17 (H) | |||||||||||||
| Extent: 1 volume: 19 lithographs, color ; 41.5 x 32 cm | |||||||||||||
| Note: Caricatures of men, including military officers, conductors, coachmen, priests, knights, and jockeys, usually with shadows in the shape of animals. One of the men has the body of an umbrella and another of a grasshopper. Some of the caricatures are annotated with the names Max Levinson, Clementi, Jacques de Zaghet, Alexandre Capraro, Alexandre de Zaghet, Max (or Ernest) Lavisse, and Bongue Alexandre Pastre (Directeur). | |||||||||||||
| Cabinet of American Illustration (CAI), ca. 1880 - 1944 | |||||||||||||
| Call No.: CAI (AA) (A) (D) | |||||||||||||
| [Rendering for a proposed reconstruction of King Solomon's temple], [between 1923 and 1924] | |||||||||||||
| Creator: Hugh Ferriss (b. 1889) | |||||||||||||
| Call No.: CAI: Ferriss, no. 1 (D) | |||||||||||||
| Extent: 1 drawing on paper: charcoal ; 62.5 x 92.5 cm (sheet) | |||||||||||||
| Note: Elephants, boats and people gathered at Schuykill River (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) in front of temple; the Philadelphia Museum of Art is the background. In 1923 Hugh Ferriss was hired by Harvey Wiley Corbett on a project to design a full-scale reproduction of King Solomon's temple and citadel, as a symbol of piety and peace for the Philadelphia Sesquicentennial Exposition of 1926. The idea was originated by Dr. John Wesley Kelchner and many artists created drawings for the project. Date from Hugh Ferriss, the metropolis of tomorrow. New York: Ives Washburn, 1986. | |||||||||||||
| [Couple dancing], 1944 | |||||||||||||
| Creator: Lyle Justis (1892-1960) | |||||||||||||
| Call No.: CAI: Justis, no. 1 (AA) | |||||||||||||
| Extent: 1 drawing on laid paper: brush and ink ; 22 x 18.5 cm (sheet) | |||||||||||||
| Note: Title devised by cataloger. Signed: Lyle Justis, 1944. | |||||||||||||
| Between neighbors, [ca. 1903] | |||||||||||||
| Creator: Rose Cecil O'Neill (1874-1944) | |||||||||||||
| Call No.: CAI: O'Neill, no. 11 (A) | |||||||||||||
| Extent: 1 drawing on wove paper: ink and wash ; 38.5 x 55 cm (sheet) | |||||||||||||
| Note: An elderly woman talking to a younger woman who holds two babies while a third child is standing next to her. Signed: O'Neill. Caption: Mrs. Doolan: "Did yez hear the landlord had lowered the rent for us, Mrs. Carey?" Mrs. Carey: "Yez don't say! I s'pose he thanks he'll lose less money when yez skip widout payin it." | |||||||||||||
| [Window washers], [between 1919 and 1924] | |||||||||||||
| Creator: Robert Riggs (1896-1970) | |||||||||||||
| Call No.: CAI: Riggs, no. 1 (D) | |||||||||||||
| Extent: 1 drawing on paper: watercolor ; 69 x 87 cm (sheet) | |||||||||||||
| To Aphrodite, [between 1880 and 1889] | |||||||||||||
| Creator: Angelo Michael Woolf (1837-1899) | |||||||||||||
| Call No.: CAI: Woolf, no. 8 (AA) | |||||||||||||
| Extent: 1 drawing on writing paper: brush and ink ; 23 x 14.5 cm (sheet) | |||||||||||||
| Note: A thermometer incorporating a self-portrait of Woolf suffering from the heat. Inscribed below image: The day's too hot I'm forced to throw, My pen aside with much compunction, A fellow's thoughts come rather slow, with Mercury and Venus in conjunction. | |||||||||||||
| One particular case in which five Michet champagne bottles, etc., [between 1880 and 1889] | |||||||||||||
| Creator: Angelo Michael Woolf (1837-1899) | |||||||||||||
| Call No.: CAI: Woolf, no. 9 (AA) | |||||||||||||
| Extent: 1 drawing on wove paper: ink ; 12.5 x 13 cm (sheet) | |||||||||||||
| Note: A military officer and a woman seated under a suitcase drinking champagne. The officer has his back turned to viewer. Inscribed below title: (Likeness not attainable). | |||||||||||||
| [Self-portrait with blue scarf], 1884 | |||||||||||||
| Creator: Angelo Michael Woolf (1837-1899) | |||||||||||||
| Call No.: CAI: Woolf, no. 10 (AA) | |||||||||||||
| Extent: 1 drawing on laid paper: ink and watercolor ; 22 x 12.5 cm (sheet) | |||||||||||||
| Note: Title devised. Signed: M. Angelo Woolf. Drawing adhered to letter: Studio Dec. 27/84. With best wishes for your future and with the hope that you will live to enjoy many Christmases to come, believe me to be, Yours Sincerely M. Angelo Woolf. | |||||||||||||
| [Self-portrait with a hangover], [between 1880 and 1889] | |||||||||||||
| Creator: Angelo Michael Woolf (1837-1899) | |||||||||||||
| Call No.: CAI: Woolf, no. 11 (A) | |||||||||||||
| Extent: 1 drawing on writing paper: ink ; 25 x 19.5 cm (sheet) | |||||||||||||
| Note: Title devised by cataloger. Inscribed by the artist: The above will give you some idea of my suffering last night. I am better now. | |||||||||||||
| Cartoon Drawings, ca. 1800 - 1950 | |||||||||||||
| Call No.: CD 1 (AA) (A) (B) (C) | |||||||||||||
| Mr. Frank Brangwyn, taking a five minutes well-earned rest, [ca. 1925] | |||||||||||||
| Creator: Sir Max Beerbohm (1872-1956) | |||||||||||||
| Call No.: CD 1: Beerbohm, no. 1 (B) | |||||||||||||
| Note: Caricature shows the artist Frank Brangwyn standing by one of his murals, where only the legs and fingers of a figure are visible, as well as large pieces of fruit. Brangwyn holds a large paint brush, which looks like a broom, in his hands. Other equally large paint brushes rest on the floor below the mural. Several large buckets of paint stand on the floor. Signed lower right: Max. Title inscribed lower right. Inscribed on mount since removed: Plate 22 from Observations. | |||||||||||||
| [Caricature of Napoleon Bonaparte], [ca. 1890] | |||||||||||||
| Creator: Caran d'Ache (1859-1909) | |||||||||||||
| Call No.: CD 1: Caran D'Ache, no. 9 (AA) | |||||||||||||
| Extent: 1 drawing on laid paper mounted on board: ink and watercolor ; 17.5 x 27.5 cm (mount) | |||||||||||||
| Note: Caricature shows Napoleon Bonaparte standing in military uniform in the foreground with his hand in his shirt. A man sits at a table behind him, writing. | |||||||||||||
| [Series of seven humorous vignettes], [ca. 1890] | |||||||||||||
| Creator: Caran d'Ache (1859-1909) | |||||||||||||
| Call No.: CD 1: Caran D'Ache, no. 1 (B) | |||||||||||||
| Extent: 1 drawing on thin wove paper: brush and ink ; 26 x 53 cm (sheet) | |||||||||||||
| Note: Seven humorous vignettes from history and mythology. Characters include St. Nicholas, the Duke of Wellington, and Zeus. Signed lower right: Caran D'Ache. Inscribed lower right: To Al Bendiner from Henry C. Pitz with all good wishes; 33. Title devised. | |||||||||||||
| Merci! J n'ai plus faim! Tant qu'il y aura un Prussien en France voila la bouche qu'il faut nourrir: Thank you! I am not hungry anymore. As long as there is a Prussian in France there is the mouth that should be fed., 1871 | |||||||||||||
| Creator: Cham (1819-1879) | |||||||||||||
| Call No.: CD 1: Cham, no. 1 (AA) | |||||||||||||
| Extent: 1 drawing on wove paper: brown ink over pencil ; 13 x 15.5 cm (sheet) | |||||||||||||
| Note: Cartoon showing a woman holding an infant and pointing to the mouth of a cannon, in response to the offerings of a man standing facing her. She indicates that as long as the Prussians are in France, the cannons must continue to operate. Inscribed in pencil upper right: Cham 1871. This cartoon refers to the Franco-Prussian War, 1870-71. | |||||||||||||
| [Bust portrait of a boy], 1832 | |||||||||||||
| Creator: Cham (1819-1879) | |||||||||||||
| Call No.: CD 1: Cham, no. 2 (A) | |||||||||||||
| Extent: 1 drawing on off-white laid paper: graphite ; 12 x 7.5 cm (sheet) | |||||||||||||
| Note: Caricature of a boy, facing three quarters to the right, with a drooping eyelid. Inscribed in ink lower right: 1832. Title devised. Ink drawing of a seated woman on verso. | |||||||||||||
| Do you remember?, [between 1910 and 1934] | |||||||||||||
| Creator: Cham (1819-1879) | |||||||||||||
| Call No.: CD 1: Cham, no. 2 (B) | |||||||||||||
| Extent: 1 drawing on layered paper board: ink ; 37 x 29 cm (sheet) | |||||||||||||
| Note: A woman in a general store in late nineteenth century dress. Signed: Chapin. | |||||||||||||
| L'auteur embarassé: The perplexed artist, 1841 | |||||||||||||
| Creator: Léon Cogniet (1794-1880) | |||||||||||||
| Call No.: CD 1: Cogniet, no. 1 (AA) | |||||||||||||
| Extent: 1 drawing on off-white wove paper: watercolor, sepia and black ink, with gold edging ; 17 x 11 cm (sheet) | |||||||||||||
| Note: Full-length portrait of an artist sitting holding a pallet and a maulstick, his legs straddling the chair. His face appears in profile upper right. Half-length drawing of a bearded man wearing a fez on verso. | |||||||||||||
| [Man with crown of coins sitting backwards on a small horse], [ca. 1860] | |||||||||||||
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