Is there a market for these? 0

[Blastaar]

Let me start off with an apology that these are not comic art. But they are original pencils. Found several of these going through my parents old things. Know nothing about them other than that they are from England and at least over 40 years old. 
 

any info appreciated. 
 

 

[ESeffinga]

Looks like a printed book plate to me, based on the printed text at the bottom.

That said, printing screens didn't get really good until after the year 2000 or so. I can't see a dot screen, but it's a small pic. I'd have to see a super closeup to confirm it's original. But that printed text at the bottom is very weird.

Anyhow, parts of it look like pencil and parts look like ink wash.  As for value... whatever you can get someone to pay you for them, as with anything else. Absent knowing where they were used and how, they are simply unattributed drawings.
This is were the old monetary value is almost always tied to something. Be it the artist's name, the book the work was done for, the reach that the image has had, etc. and so on. Without having any of that...

To someone into landed gentry style hunting, steeplechase, horses, even maybe hunting dogs, they might have some value. I've seen framed stuff like this in antique stores sit for $100-300 for years and years. It's all about getting eyes on it and letting the market set itself.
If you can find the source of publication, if any (family, asking around groups for which this type of material might be familiar), maybe you get lucky and it's from something people have heard of? Or you find out what it is, and discover it's from some book no one even cares about any more, and your parents just fancied the drawings. Might have more value as keepsake than art find, really.

If you ever get to go to a really large market in a very large old city (London, Paris, Rome) you can often find such drawings by the dozens or hundreds. Random scenes of life, etc. As an art subject it didn't really take off until the late 1800s/early 1900s, as before that, most art and drawings were made for the rich, and they didn't fancy seeing average people in their homes. Hah. My suspicion is that this was to illustrate a story or something.  Could have been done as late as the 70s, but possibly before.

If you know 100% for sure it is really original art, and not printed, you should directly ask Mitch at Graphic Collectibles, as he's sold a fair amount of illustration art over the years. You could hit up any folks that specialize in selling illustration art to see if they recognize the style, or the style that this drawing might be aping. And you could reach out to David Apatow via his Illustration Art blog, and see if he has any thoughts. he's written several books on illustrators, and pays attention to a lot of it. He might be gracious enough to give you his .02¢. http://illustrationart.blogspot.com/ 

There are also Illustration Art groups on Facebook. You could post them there and ask if anyone has any thoughts on where to look.

At the end of the day, my recommendation is to not get your hopes up, be methodical. Take your time. Figure out what you do and or don't have.
But ONLY if it's worth your time and you have a genuine curiosity. Otherwise, chances are it is a big waste of time and not worth the hours of work you'll put into it to find out it's gonna net you $45 on eBay. people talk all the time about barn finds. Attic finds, etc. Hitting the mother lode as it were. But that only works best if you know what you have. Knowledge is almost 9/10s of value in a case like this.

Good luck.

 

 

[Blastaar]

3 hours ago, ESeffinga said:

Looks like a printed book plate to me, based on the printed text at the bottom.

That said, printing screens didn't get really good until after the year 2000 or so. I can't see a dot screen, but it's a small pic. I'd have to see a super closeup to confirm it's original. But that printed text at the bottom is very weird.

Anyhow, parts of it look like pencil and parts look like ink wash.  As for value... whatever you can get someone to pay you for them, as with anything else. Absent knowing where they were used and how, they are simply unattributed drawings.
This is were the old monetary value is almost always tied to something. Be it the artist's name, the book the work was done for, the reach that the image has had, etc. and so on. Without having any of that...

To someone into landed gentry style hunting, steeplechase, horses, even maybe hunting dogs, they might have some value. I've seen framed stuff like this in antique stores sit for $100-300 for years and years. It's all about getting eyes on it and letting the market set itself.
If you can find the source of publication, if any (family, asking around groups for which this type of material might be familiar), maybe you get lucky and it's from something people have heard of? Or you find out what it is, and discover it's from some book no one even cares about any more, and your parents just fancied the drawings. Might have more value as keepsake than art find, really.

If you ever get to go to a really large market in a very large old city (London, Paris, Rome) you can often find such drawings by the dozens or hundreds. Random scenes of life, etc. As an art subject it didn't really take off until the late 1800s/early 1900s, as before that, most art and drawings were made for the rich, and they didn't fancy seeing average people in their homes. Hah. My suspicion is that this was to illustrate a story or something.  Could have been done as late as the 70s, but possibly before.

If you know 100% for sure it is really original art, and not printed, you should directly ask Mitch at Graphic Collectibles, as he's sold a fair amount of illustration art over the years. You could hit up any folks that specialize in selling illustration art to see if they recognize the style, or the style that this drawing might be aping. And you could reach out to David Apatow via his Illustration Art blog, and see if he has any thoughts. he's written several books on illustrators, and pays attention to a lot of it. He might be gracious enough to give you his .02¢. http://illustrationart.blogspot.com/ 

There are also Illustration Art groups on Facebook. You could post them there and ask if anyone has any thoughts on where to look.

At the end of the day, my recommendation is to not get your hopes up, be methodical. Take your time. Figure out what you do and or don't have.
But ONLY if it's worth your time and you have a genuine curiosity. Otherwise, chances are it is a big waste of time and not worth the hours of work you'll put into it to find out it's gonna net you $45 on eBay. people talk all the time about barn finds. Attic finds, etc. Hitting the mother lode as it were. But that only works best if you know what you have. Knowledge is almost 9/10s of value in a case like this.

Good luck.

 

 

 Thank you for the thoughtful answer.