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A catalogue of the very valuable and entire collection of drawings and paintings in oil, of Sir Robert Ainslie, Bart. : the whole of which were executed by that ingenious artist, Mayer, for Sir Robert Ainslie, during his travels in the Levant, his residence at Constantinople, and his return from thence to England : of this extensive collection, a few drawings have been executed (by permission of the proprietor), but the greater part will be found particularly interesting, being views of celebrated spots and remains of antiquity, unnoticed by intelligent writers and picturesque tourists : together with the complete itinerary, in a series of views through the little frequented countries of Bulgaria and Wallachia, from Constantinople to the Austrian Frontiers : also, a few marbles : which will be sold by auction by Mr. Christie, at his Great Room, Pall Mall, on Friday, 10th March, 1809, and following day.
Creator:
Christie, James, 1773–1831
Date:
1809
Physical Description:
14 pages ; 26 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
2.
A catalogue of a most capital collection of Italian, French, Flemish, and Dutch Pictures, by the most esteemed Masters, in the highest state of preservation : also a valuable selection of capital high-finished drawings, remarkable fine prints, books of prints and bronzes : small but well-chosen library of books in elegant and uniform bindings : a number of fine casts in plaster from the rarest subjects of the antique : capital models, a great variety of drawing implements : mathematical and musical instruments : a quantity of choice music : also all the elegant household furniture : fine china : a fine-toned piano forte by Longman and Broderip : a modern chaise and harness : and a great variety of curious and valuable effects : the property of John Alexander Gress, Esq. deceased, eminently and most deservedly distinguished for his knowledge in the fine arts, at his late house, No. 24, on the west side of Tottenham Court Road, nearly opposite Tavistock Street, Bedford Square : which will be sold by auction (by order of the executor) by Mr. Christie, on the premises, on Monday, April 7th, 1794, and five following days, at twelve o'clock : to be viewed Frida and Saturday preceding the sale.--catalogues may be had on the premises : at the Rainbow Coffee House : and in Pall Mall : also, at one o'clock, on the first day's sale, will be sold, the valuable lease of the premises--particulars may be had : N.B. the first and second days sale, will consist of prints, books of prints, &c. : third and fourth days, the drawings, drawing implements, models, &c. : fifth day, the capital collection of pictures, and library of books : sixth day, all the houshold furniture, china, musical instruments, &c.
Creator:
Christie, Mr. (James), 1730–1803
Date:
[1794]
Physical Description:
30 pages ; 26 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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A catalogue of the very curious and valuable museum : consisting of rare Oriental china, natural history, antiquities, coins : among which is a genuine Queen Anne's farthing ... cameo's, intaglios, sculpture, miniatures by Zincke and Petitot : books, rare bibles and books of common prayer, by Field, Newcomb and Bill : and choice cabinet of high finished Flemish and Dutch pictures, of the late Clement Bellamy, Esq. Dec. at his late residence, no. 11, Church Court, Kensington : among the pictures are exquisite specimens by Schiavone, Marratti, Holbein, Rubens, Teniers, P. Neefs, Brughel, Cuyp, Ostade, Ruysdael, J. Steen, V. Der Heyde, Terburg, Poelemberg, Breemberg, Stork, De Heusch, Dietrich, Vernet, Zuccarelli, Canaletti, and Morland : which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Christie, on the premises, on Tuesday, June 1th, 1810, at one o'clock, precisely, by order of the executors.
Creator:
Christie, James, 1773–1831
Date:
[1810]
Physical Description:
10 pages ; 26 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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A catalogue of all the remaining property hitherto unoffered for sale, belonging to that very ingenious and celebrated artist, Guy Head, Esq. Deceased : consisting of a variety of original works and admirable copies from the Old Masters by his own hand : particularly of the celebrated Danæ by Titian, in the Capo Di Monte Gallery ... and other works : two small landscapes by Wilson : an extensive collection of original drawings, by Head, Ducrous, Kniep, Keiserman, and other Masters : which embrace the most beautiful scenery in and about Rome, Tivoli, and the environs, Naples, Sicily, and the Mediterranean : valuable prints ... : a set of twenty-four interior views of the Museo Clementino by Feoli : engravings by Cardon, Dunego, Morghen, &c. : capital books of prints including Albinus's Anatomical Tables, 1 vol. : Anatomia del disegno, 1 vol. : Le 'Antichita romane D'Albano, del Campo Marzio, &c. D'Piranesi, 4 vols : Il Museu Pio Clementino, 3 vols. : Les Ruines des Monuments de la Grece, 2 vols : Hamilton's Vases by Tischbein, 3 vols. : di Museo Capitolino, 3 vols : Mosaize Hisoire der Hebreeuwse Kerke, 4 vols. : Galleria Farnese di Annibale Caracci, 1 vol. : ... copy of Raphael's Bible : 1 Costumi Antichi Egiziani, &c. 1 vol. ... Costumes les Theatres Anciennes que Modernes, 2 vols. ... : and other scarce and valuable works : cork models of the Coloseum & Temples of Vesta & Minerva Medico : casts of medals and gems : a pair of black Etruscan vases : and a Patera : bronze heads : upwards of ninety lots of ultramarine : near twenty lots of Chinese Vermillion and other colours : drawing paper, drawing boards, port folios, and various other articles : which will be sold by auction, by Peter Coxe, at the auction mart, near the Bank of England, on Wednesday, the 11th of April, 1810, and two following days, at one o'clock, precisely, (by order of the administratrix.)
Creator:
Coxe, Peter, -1844
Date:
[1810]
Physical Description:
22 pages ; 26 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Prints and drawings, framed and glazed, pictures, cameos and intaglios, etruscan vases, capital basso relievos an marble, &c. : a catalogue of framed and glazed prints and drawings, from the herculaneum, pictures by Mortimer, &c. : about 30 cameos and intaglios, of exquisite wormanship, in rings, &c. etruscan vases : capital basso relievos, in marble : bronzes : a fine carving in ivory of Sir Issac Newton : globes, China, wearing apparel, &c. &c. of the late Edward Poore, Esq. deceased : which, by order of the acting executor, will be sold by auction by Mr. Richardson, at his house, No. 31, Strand, on Friday, April 19, and following day, at twelve o'clock : to be viewed on Thursday the 18th, and till the time of sale. catalogues may be had of Mr. Richardson, No. 31, in the Strand : collections of prints, books, &c. purchased in town or country, or sold by auction : money advanced on property intended for public sale.
Creator:
Richardson, William, active 1778–1815
Date:
[1799]
Physical Description:
8 pages ; 24 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
6.
The catalogue of all the genuine and valuable collection of ancient and modern paintings of the late John Francis Rigaud, Esq. R.A. : including a head by Raphael-a study from nature : a head of Christ, by Corregio : and all his own interesting and excellently accomplished performances : among which are, the finished designs for the Sampson, his justly celebrated academic picture, and the smaller picture for the engraving : the Exposure of Moses : the Portrait of Captain Brant, the American chief : Jupiter and Calista : the allegorical design for the literary fund : and other equally esteemed performances : the plate of the Sampson engraved by Bartolozzi, and the Portrait of Mallet du Pan, engraved by Heath : with all the remaining impression : and various valuable drawings, studies, prints, books of prints, easels, colors, porphyry grinding stone, plaster casts, &c. &c. : which will be sold by auction by Peter Coxe at the Great Room, no. 20, Lower Brook Street, Grosvenor Square, on Wednesday, the 3d of April, and following day at one o'clock precisely, by order of the administrator: may be viewed three days preceding the sale: when catalogues, at one shilling each, may be had at the Room, and of Mr. Coxe, 33 Throgmorton Street.
Creator:
Coxe, Peter, -1844
Date:
[1811]
Physical Description:
15, [1] pages ; 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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A catalogue of a capital, valuable and choice collection of pictures, by celebrated Masters of the Italian, French, Flemish, and Dutch Schools : a few of which are choice specimens, not long since purchased on the Continent, and in the highest preservation : they comprise the works of Titian, Giorgione, P. Veronese, M. Angelo, Cav. d'Arpino, Caracci, Comenichino, Guido, Guercino, Albano, D. Feti, A. Veronese, Teniers, Rembrand, Cuyp, J. Steen, De Honge, A. V. de Velde : also, a capital Historical Picture of N. Poussin : the Angels confounding the Men of Gomorrah : two portraits, Titian : a grand scene in Venice, with a procession of the Doge on St. Luke's Day : Caneletti, from the Vatican : and a few select landscapes, by Wilson, the property of the late B. Booth, Esq. : which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Christie, at his Great Room, Pall Mall, on Tuesday, May 30, 1809, and following day, punctually at one o'clock.
Creator:
Christie, James, 1773–1831
Date:
[1809]
Physical Description:
11, [1] pages ; 26 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
8.
A catalogue of a valuable and interesting collection of high-finished modern pictures and drawings, framed and glazed : being the genuine and entire stock of an eminent publisher, retiring from business : among the paintings, are The Lord of the Vineyard, and Death of Sapphira, by Opie : original finished studies of wild animals by Northcote : an exquisite small modem of the Storming of Seringapaam, and a ditto the Death of Abercrombie, by R. K. Porter : Howard visiting the Prison, by Wheatley : and various historical, popular and fancy subjects, by Angelica, Wheatley, Morland, Fuseli, Tresham, Stothard, Cosway, Singleton, Benwell, Bigg, Naysmith, Schweickhardt, Jones, Farrington, Marlow, Hodges : the drawings are chiefly by Cipriani, Bartolozzi, Zuccarelli, Hamilton, Stothard, Wheatley, Ker Porter, Loutherbourg, Girtin, Hearne, Sandby, La Porte, Walmsley, Payne, Pocock : also, a small assemblage of architectural and other drawings, framed and glazed : loose prints and books of ditto : a choice collection of plaister casts and busts, from the antique, brought from Rome by an artist : mathematical instruments : skins of vellum for drawing : drawing implements, &c. : a small collection of pictures by Old Masters : and without reserve, sixty copper plates, never published, designed as a supplement to the Vitruvius Britannicus, being elevations of buildings executed by eminent architects : which will be sold by auction by Mr. Christie, at his Great Room, Pall Mall, on Friday, 24th February, 1809, and following day, at twelve o'clock.
Creator:
Christie, James, 1773–1831
Date:
[1809]
Physical Description:
14, [2] pages ; 26 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
9.
A catalogue of a most capital and truly valuable collection : consisting of about fifty well-known pictures, of the highest class and consequence, which have graced some of the first palaces in Florence, Rome, and Naples : the many judges who have visited Ital, and examined the justly celebrated works in the fine arts, in that country will recognize these pictures : which are in the same pure and perfect state as when they were first transferred from the easels of the immortal artists who painted them, to the apartments in the several distinguished palaces they adorned : they consist of the works of Raffael, Polidore, Titian, Parmegiano, L. Carracci, A. Carracci, Guido, Domenichino, Baroccio, Guercino, Schidoni, Albano, Bronzino, Velasquez, Claude Lorraine, N. Poussin, Caravagio, P. Brill, and various other great and esteemed masters : which will be sold by auction (without the least reserve,) by Mr. Christie, at his Great Room, Pall Mall, on Friday, April the 25th, 1800, at twelve o'clock : to be publickly viewed two days preceding the sale with catalogues only to be had in Pall Mall.
Creator:
Christie, Mr. (James), 1730–1803
Date:
[1800]
Physical Description:
8 pages ; 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
10.
A catalogue of all the valuable drawings, sketches, sea views, and studies, of that celebrated artist Philip James de Loutherbourg, Esq. R.A. deceased : oincluding several highly finished figures in colour, being the original designs and portraits for his well-known performances on national subjects ... also a few pictures painted by his ... pupil Mr. Lodder ... models and designs for scenery ... prints, ancient and modern, including several proof engravings, from his own works, capital books of prints, and extensive library of scarce books ... Macklin's Bible and Bowyer's History of England ... Mr. de Loutherbourg's casts for study ... various articles, colours, and materials used by this celebrated artist in the furtherance and prosecution of his art ... : which will be sold by Peter Coxe, in Maddox Street, Hanover Square, on Thursday, the 18th of June, 1812, and following days, at one o'clock precisely : by order of the executrix : may be viewed two days preceding the sale : and catalogues, at one shilling each, then had in Maddox Street : and at No. 33, Throgmorton Street, Royal Exchange.
Creator:
Coxe, Peter, -1844
Date:
[1812]
Physical Description:
32 pages ; 31 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts