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• Author/Creator:Christie, Mr. (James), 1730-1803, auctioneer,
  
• Title:A catalogue of the capital collection of pictures, pketches, and high-finished drawings, the property of the late much esteemed artist, John Baptiste Cipriani Esq. deceased : consisting of a few finished pictures, and many of his sketches in oil : a small collection of old Masters, among which is a Magdalen by A. Furini, remarkably fine : a high-finished Portrait of Prince Rupert by Verelst : a capital Head of Vasari by Himself : Marc Anthony and Cleopatry by A. Veronese : a numerous collection of high finished drawings, sketches, &c. that inestimable high finish-finished Drawing of the Diploma, done for the Royal Academy : a finished drawing in colors of the Death of Dido : and many of his large cartoons &c. &c. &c. : which will be sold by auction by Mr. Christie, at his Great Room, in Pall Mall on Wednesday March the 22d, 1786 and three following days : to be publickly viewed on Monday and Tuesday preceding the sale, which will begin each day at twelve o'clock.
  
• Published/Created:[London] : [Mr. Christie], [1786]
  
• Physical Description:12 pages ; 28 cm
  

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  • Location:BRITISH ART CENTER, Rare Bks & Mss (Non-Circulating)
    Request for use in the YCBA Study Room
    
    
  • Call Number: N8640 .N6+ v.1, no. 33 Oversize
    
  • Status:No information available 
  • Provenance:Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
    

   
• Local Notes:BAC: British Art Center copy is not annotated. Number 33 of 61 auction catalogs bound together. The volume bound in contemporary half calf; with the armorial bookplate of Baron Northwick; signed in manuscript: William Upcott, London Institution, 1823.
  
• Notes:Date of sale: March 22-25, 1786.
  Place of sale: London.
  
• Format:Book
• References:English short title catalogue, T30212
  Getty provenance index databases, sale catalog Br-A4012
  Lugt, F. Répertoire des catalogues de ventes publiques, 4007
  
• Subjects:Cipriani, Giovanni Battista, 1727-1785--Art collections--Catalogs..
  Art auctions--England--London--Catalogs.
  Art--Private collections--Great Britain--Catalogs.
  Drawing, European--Catalogs.
  Painting, European--Catalogs.
  
• Subjects (Local Yale):Northwick, John Rushout, Baron, 1770-1859--Bookplate.
  Upcott, William, 1779-1845--Autograph.
  London Institution--Ownership.
  
• Genre/Form:Auction catalogs.
  
• Also listed under:Great Britain--England--London.