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Creator:
Christie, James, 1773–1831
Title(s):
A catalogue of a valuable and capital collection of Italian, French, Flemish, and Dutch pictures, and prints, elegantly framed and glazed : the property of a Gentleman, dec., brought from his seat in the country : among which are, a grand picture by Snyders and Rubens : a landscape by Nicolo Poussin : the celebrated picture, the Death of Germanicus, by the same Maser : and the Horrors of War, by Rubens : besides other capital specimens of : Paul Veronese, Bassan, Caracci, Salvator Rosa, Velasquez, Paul Bril, Borgognone, Carlo Maratti, Albert Durer, Zucchero, Vandyck, Jordaens, Adrian Vandevelde, Wynants, Mieris, Waterloo, Breughel, Molinaer, Heemskirk, Vernet, Lely, Kneller, Hogarth, Sir J. Reynolds : which (by order of the executors,) will be sold by auction by Mr. Christie, at his Great Room, Pall Mall, on Friday, April 29, 1808, and following day, at twelve o'clock.
Published/Created:
[London] : Mr. Christie, [1808]
London : J. Smeeton, Printer, 148 St. Martin's Lane,
Physical Description:
[12] pages ; 26 cm
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
N8640 .N6+ v. 5 no.6 Oversize
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
[Request]
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Getty provenance index databases, sale catalog Br-576
Lugt, F. Répertoire des catalogues de ventes publiques, 7390
Date of sale: April 29th-30th, 1808.
Place of sale: London.
BAC: British Art Center copy is not annotated. Number 6 of 42 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. Page 12 misnumbered as page 21.
Subject Terms:
Art -- Private collections -- Great Britain -- Catalogs.
Art auctions -- England -- London -- Catalogs.
London Institution -- Ownership.
Northwick, John Rushout, Baron, 1770–1859 -- Bookplate.
Painting, European -- Catalogs.
Upcott, William, 1779–1845 -- Autograph.
Form/Genre:
Auction catalogs.
Contributors:
Smeeton, Joseph, printer.
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