Sketches and paintings have been produced since prehistoric times, as demonstrated by cave and rock paintings.

McLean co-edited the book Songs and Sketches of the First Clearwater Crew with sketches by Thomas B. Allen for which Pete Seeger wrote the foreword.

Sketches of Spain ( 1959 – 1960 ) featured songs by contemporary Spanish composer Joaquin Rodrigo and also Manuel de Falla, as well as Gil Evans originals with a Spanish flavor.

Beginning February 29, 1928 on NBC, Socony Oil reached radio listeners with a comedy program, Soconyland Sketches, scripted by William Ford Manley and featuring Arthur Allen and Parker Fennelly as rural New Englanders.

These bawdy, loud and unruly drinking dens so often described by Charles Dickens in his Sketches by Boz ( published 1835 – 6 ) increasingly came to be held as unbridled cesspits of immorality or crime and the source of much ill-health and alcoholism among the working classes.

* American ( U. S. A .)— Abelle, Victor: " Pierrot and Pierrette " ( 1906 ; piano ); Foote, Arthur: " Pierrot " and " Pierrette ", from Five Bagatelles ( c. 1894 ; piano ); Hoiby, Lee: " Pierrot " ( 1950 ; # 2 of Night Songs for voice and piano ; text by Adelaide Crapsey above under # Poetry | Poetry ); Neidlinger, William Harold: Piano Sketches ( 1905 ; # 5: " Pierrot "; # 7: " Columbine "); Oehmler, Leo: " Pierrot and Pierrette – Petite Gavotte " ( 1905 ; violin and piano ).

The inn features in Sketches by Boz, David Copperfield and The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens.

In live performances, Jones ' keyboard showpiece was " No Quarter ", often lasting for up to half-an-hour and sometimes including snatches of " Amazing Grace ", Joaquín Rodrigo's " Concierto de Aranjuez ", which had inspired Miles Davis ' Sketches of Spain, and variations of classical pieces by composers such as Rachmaninoff.

The full-page frontispiece portrait of the author was well-known to generations of doodling school children and is mentioned in Dickens ; in Sketches by Boz.

* http :// www. underthesun. cc / Classics / Dickens / sketches / sketches17. html " Sketches by Boz: The River "

" Two Aotearoa Sketches for Bassoon and Piano " are two pieces composed by bassoonist Michael Burns.

* Bachura Scandal and Other Stories and Sketches, translated by Alan Menhenett

* The prison appears in a number of novels by Charles Dickens, including Oliver Twist, A Tale of Two Cities, Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of ' Eighty and Great Expectations, and is the subject of an entire essay in his work Sketches by Boz.

In " A Christmas Dinner " from Sketches by Boz ( 1833 ), Dickens had approached the holiday in a manner similar to Irving, and, in The Pickwick Papers ( 1837 ), he offered an idealized vision of an 18th century Christmas at Dingley Dell.

Sketches of John VIII Palaiologos during his visit at the Council of Florence in 1438, by Pisanello.

* War Between the States: Autographs and Biographical Sketches by Jim Hayes, Palmetto Pub., 1989, 464 pages.

* Sketches ( album ), an album by Bert Jansch

* 1888 Merrimac article by William T. Davis on pages 1535 – 1556 in Volume II of the History of Essex County Massachusetts with Biographical Sketches, published by D. Hamilton Hurd in 1888.

Alonzo Hall Quint, " Daniel Hall ," Sketches of Successful New Hampshire Men, 1882, Published by John Badger Clarke, Manchester, New Hampshire

A genealogical history of Portland, New York was published in 1873 by Dr. H. C. Taylor titled " Historical Sketches of the Town of Portland, New York ".

* Eddie Marsh — Sketches for a Composite Literary Portrait ... Compiled by Christopher Hassall and Denis Mathews ( 1953 )

* W. Woodford Clayton with William Nelson, History of Bergen and Passaic Counties, New Jersey, with Biographical Sketches of Many of its Pioneers and Prominent Men.

* W. Woodford Clayton with William Nelson, History of Bergen and Passaic Counties, New Jersey, with Biographical Sketches of Many of its Pioneers and Prominent Men.

William Henry Foote, " Sketches of North Carolina " ( 1846 ) Links to: Cover, Contents xix, 80, 126, 134, Chapter XII pg148, 155 ( return to NC in 1775 )

* Michigan State Library, Biographical Sketches of American Artists, " Baer, William J.

* Augusta Theodosia Drane, The Three Chancellors, or Sketches of the Lives of William of Wykeham, William of Waynflete and Sir Thomas More.

* William Blake-Poetical Sketches

The Fonthill sale was the subject of William Hazlitt's scathing review of Beckford's taste for " idle rarities and curiosities or mechanical skill ", for fine bindings, bijouterie and highly-finished paintings, " the quintessence and rectified spirit of still-life ", republished in Hazlitt's Sketches of the Picture Galleries of England ( 1824 ), and richly demonstrating his own prejudices.

* William Lyon Mackenzie, Sketches of Canada and the United States ( 1833 )

* Stone, William L. Life of Joseph Brant-Thayendanegea: Including the Border Wars of the American Revolution, and Sketches of the Indian Campaigns of Generals Harmar, St. Clair, and Wayne, and Other Matters Connected with the Indian Relations of the United States and Great Britain, From the Peace of 1783 to the Indian Peace of 1795.

William Blake invokes " the linnet's song " in one of the poems entitled " Song " in his " Poetical Sketches.

Other works by Hodgkin were Biographical Sketches of James Cowles Prichard ( 1849 ), and William Stroud ( 1858 ).

Source: SECRETARIES OF WAR AND SECRETARIES OF THE ARMY: Portraits & Biographical Sketches by William Gardner Bell from the CENTER OF MILITARY HISTORY, UNITED STATES ARMY

Sketches of the Christian Life and Public Labors of William Miller

Sketches were also made by William Lassell in 1862 using his four-foot telescope at Malta, and by M. Trouvelot from Cambridge, Massachusetts and Edward Singleton Holden in 1875 using the twenty-six inch Clark refractor at the United States Naval Observatory.

* Poetical Sketches by William Blake.

Bell, Jr., “ William Henry ( 1729 – 1786 ),” in Patriot-Improvers: Biographical Sketches of Members of the American Philosophical Society, Volume One: 1743 – 1768 ( Philadelphia, 1997 ), 349 – 61.

In 1856 a series of lithographs of his sketches were published as Portfolio of Marine and Coastal Sketches by Mr. William Brierly.

* Biographical and Historical Sketches of Early Indiana, By William Wesley Woollen

* Compton, Charles B .: Born to Fly: Some Life Sketches of Lieutenant Colonel William P. Benedict, self-published 2002, revised 2006.

Lindsay drew occasionally for The Bulletin and illustrated William Moore's Studio Sketches ( 1906 ) and designed posters.