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    • Author/Creator:Christie, James, 1773-1831, auctioneer, printer.
    • Title:A catalogue of a pleasing collection of drawing, by the most celebrated modern Masters : including the works of Girton, Gainsborough, Pocock, Anderson, La Porte, Dayes, Rooker, Cozens, Oben, &c. : likewise, thirty-six most beautiful, exquisitely-finished copies, in water colors, from paintings in Herculaneum, a unique set, lately bought from the Continent : also, a complete set of the large Shakspeare proof prints, framed and glazed, which composed the 57th prize in the Shakspeare Lottery : which will be sold by auction by Mr. Christie, at the Great Room, Pall Mall, on Saturday, June the 8th, 1805, at twelve o'clock.
    • Publication:[London] : Mr. Christie, [1805]
    • Manufacture: [London] : J. Smeeton, Printer, 148, St. Martin's Lane,
    • Physical Description:7, [1] pages ; 26 cm
    • Yale Holdings

      • Location:BRITISH ART CENTER, Rare Bks & Mss (Non-Circulating)
      • Call Number: N8640 .N6+ v. 4 no.13 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 13 of 38 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: June 8th, 1805.
      Place of sale: London.
    • Format:Book
    • References:Lugt, F. Répertoire des catalogues de ventes publiques, 6970
    • Subjects:Art auctions--England--London--Catalogs.
      Art--Private collections--Great Britain--Catalogs.
      Decorative arts--Catalogs.
      Drawing, European--Catalogs.
      Drawing, British--Catalogs.
      Prints, European--Catalogs.
      Prints, British--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:Smeeton, Joseph, printer.
      Great Britain--England--London.