Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Christie & Manson
Title:
A catalogue of the very celebrated gallery of pictures of the late Sir Simon H. Clarke, Bart. removed from Oakhill, Herts : which will be sold by auction / by Messrs. Christie and Manson, at their great room, King Street, St. James Square, on Friday, May 8 and Saturday, 9, 1840, at one o'clock precisely.
Published / Created:
[London] : [Messrs. Christie and Manson], [1840]
Physical Description:
23, [1] pages ; 23 cm
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
N8640 .N6+v.12 no. 19 Oversize
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Rare Books and Manuscripts
N8640 .N6+ v. 12b no.2 Oversize
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Rare Books and Manuscripts
N8640 .N4 v. 1 no.9
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Getty provenance index databases, sale catalog Br-5138

Lugt, F. Répertoire des catalogues de ventes publiques, 15805

Date of auction: May 8-9, 1840.

Place of auction: London.

BAC: British Art Center copy N8940.N6+ v.12 no.19 is annotated in ink with prices for all lots and most buyers'. Number 19 of 28 auction catalogs bound together. The volume bound in contemporary half calf; with the armorial bookplate of Baron Northwick.

BAC: British Art Center copy N8640.N6 v.12b no.2 is annotated in ink with prices for all lots and most buyers'. Number 2 of 42 auction catalogs bound together. The volume bound in contemporary half calf; with binder's ticket of T. Armstrong (the Strand); with the armorial bookplate of Baron Northwick.

BAC: British Art Center copy N8640 .N4 v. 1 no.9 is annotated in ink with sale prices and buyers' names for all lots. Number 9 of 34 auction catalogs bound together. The volume bound in contemporary quarter roan; with the armorial bookplates of the Earl of Normanton and Rupert Gunnis; with a manuscript index on the volume's catalogs on the front endpapers.
Subject Terms:
Clarke, Simon Houghton, Sir, 1764–1832 -- Art collections -- Catalogs. | Art auctions -- England -- London -- Catalogs. | Art -- Private collections -- Great Britain -- Catalogs. | Painting, European -- Catalogs. | Painting, British -- Catalogs. | Northwick, John Rushout, Baron, 1770–1859 -- Bookplate. | Agar, James Charles Herbert Welbore Ellis, Earl of Normanton, 1818–1896 -- Bookplate. | Gunnis, Rupert -- Bookplate.
Form/Genre:
Auction catalogs.