Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Leigh and Sotheby
Title:
A catalogue of a genuine and valuable collection of topographical prints and drawings in England and Wales, the most extensive ever offered to public sale : which will be sold by auction, on Friday, December 11, 1795, and the three following days, (Sunday excepted) by Leigh and Sotheby, booksellers, at their house in York-Street, Covent-Garden, where catalogues may be had.
Published / Created:
[London] : [Leigh and Sotheby], [1795]
Physical Description:
[2], 40 pages ; 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
'"This collection was the property of Dr. Coombs a physician who had prepared this catalogue in order to sell it by auction but the whole was purchased by private contract by John Symmons Esqr. at the price of £650."--Getty provenance index.
Subject Terms:
Combs, Charles, 1743–1776 -- Art collections -- Catalogs. | Art auctions -- England -- London -- Catalogs. | Art -- Private collections -- Great Britain -- Catalogs. | Drawings, English -- Catalogs. | Prints, English -- Catalogs. | Topographical drawing -- Catalogs. | Catalogs, Booksellers' -- England -- London -- Early works to 1800.
Form/Genre:
Auction catalogues -- England -- London -- 1795. | Auction catalogs.