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Sotheby and Son

Catalogue of a most interesting & magnificent collection of Egyptian antiquities ... : together with a splendidly illuminated manuscript, on vellum, consisting of eighty-six superb paintings : among the antiquities will be found fourteen unrolled and perfect papyri ... : ... statues in white and black stone found in the various Temples in Egypt, Nubia, &c. : five mummies, in the highest state of preservation : a magnificent wooden sarcophagus, the inside being most delicately painted, and covered with hieroglyphics : ... collection of forty sepulchral tablets in stone ... : beautiful vases in alabaster and black marble : idols in terra-cotta, & in wood : painted wooden tablets : miscellaneous antiquities, &c. : which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Sotheby and Son, at their house, Wellington Street, Strand, on Friday and Saturday, 15th and 16th of March, 1833, at twelve o'clock.

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Catalogue of a most interesting & magnificent collection of Egyptian antiquities ... : together with a splendidly illuminated manuscript, on vellum, consisting of eighty-six superb paintings : among the antiquities will be found fourteen unrolled and perfect papyri ... : ... statues in white and black stone found in the various Temples in Egypt, Nubia, &c. : five mummies, in the highest state of preservation : a magnificent wooden sarcophagus, the inside being most delicately painted, and covered with hieroglyphics : ... collection of forty sepulchral tablets in stone ... : beautiful vases in alabaster and black marble : idols in terra-cotta, & in wood : painted wooden tablets : miscellaneous antiquities, &c. : which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Sotheby and Son, at their house, Wellington Street, Strand, on Friday and Saturday, 15th and 16th of March, 1833, at twelve o'clock, [London] : [Mr. Sotheby and Son], [1833], Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection.




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    Sotheby and Son

  • Title(s)

    Catalogue of a most interesting & magnificent collection of Egyptian antiquities ... : together with a splendidly illuminated manuscript, on vellum, consisting of eighty-six superb paintings : among the antiquities will be found fourteen unrolled and perfect papyri ... : ... statues in white and black stone found in the various Temples in Egypt, Nubia, &c. : five mummies, in the highest state of preservation : a magnificent wooden sarcophagus, the inside being most delicately painted, and covered with hieroglyphics : ... collection of forty sepulchral tablets in stone ... : beautiful vases in alabaster and black marble : idols in terra-cotta, & in wood : painted wooden tablets : miscellaneous antiquities, &c. : which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Sotheby and Son, at their house, Wellington Street, Strand, on Friday and Saturday, 15th and 16th of March, 1833, at twelve o'clock.

  • Published/Created

    [London] : [Mr. Sotheby and Son], [1833]
    [London] : Printed by J. Davy,

  • Physical Description

    23, [1] pages, [2] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm

  • Holdings

    Rare Books and Manuscripts
    N8640 .N6+ v. 10 no. 10 Oversize
    Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
    Accessible in the Study Room [Request]

  • Copyright Status

    Copyright Not Evaluated

  • Classification

    Books

  • Notes

    Lithography by G. E. Madeley.
    Lugt, F. Répertoire des catalogues de ventes publiques, 13237
    Date of sale: March 15-16, 1833.
    Place of sale: London.
    BAC: British Art Center copy is not annotated. Number 10 of 20 auction catalogs bound together. The volume bound in contemporary half calf; with the armorial bookplate of Baron Northwick.
  • Subject Terms

    Art -- Private collections -- Great Britain -- Catalogs. |
    Art auctions -- England -- London -- Catalogs. |
    Davy, J. -- Printer. |
    Decorative arts -- Catalogs. |
    Egypt -- Antiquities -- Catalogs. |
    Northwick, John Rushout, Baron, 1770–1859 -- Bookplate.

  • Form/Genre

    Auction catalogs. | Lithographs -- 1833.

  • Contributors

    Madeley, George Edward, lithographer.

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