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Title(s)
A catalogue of the genuine, entire and curious collection of prints and drawings, (bound and unbound) of the late Doctor Mead : consising of the works of the most eminent masters : and particularly of a matchless collection, containing 95 drawings of exotics, insects, fruit and flowers in water colours, on vellum, by Melian, in 2 vol. by Ehret, all colour'd from nature, and finished to the greatest perfection : which, (by order of the executors) will be sold by auction, by Mr. Langford, at his house in the Great Piazza, Covent-Garden, on Monday the 13th of January 1755, and the thirteen following evenings.
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Published/Created
[London] : [Mr. Langford], [1755]
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Physical Description
30 pages ; 19 cm
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Holdings
Rare Books and Manuscripts
N8640 .B35 1754
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Accessible in the Study Room [Request]
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Copyright Status
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Full YALE Library Record
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Classification
Books
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Notes
"Six-Pence each"--Price on title page.
Date of sale: January 13-26, 1755.
Place of sale: London.
English short title catalogue, T1341
Getty provenance index databases, sale catalog Br-A499
Lugt, F. Répertoire des catalogues de ventes publiques, 858
BAC: British Art Center copy annotated in pen and ink with prices for all lots. Armorial bookplate: Bibliotheca Lindesiana. Bound in contemporary smooth calf. Bound with Bibliotheca Meadiana, sive, Catalogus librorum Richardi Mead, M.D. London, 1754. -
Subject Terms
Art -- Prices -- Catalogs. | Art -- Private collections -- Great Britain -- Catalogs. | Art auctions -- England -- London -- Catalogs. | Bibliotheca Lindesiana | Brit tracts -- 1755. | Drawing, British -- Catalogs. | Drawing, European -- Catalogs. | Mead, Richard, 1673–1754 -- Art collections -- Catalogs. | Prints -- Catalogs -- Early works to 1800. | Private libraries -- England.
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Form/Genre
Annotations (Provenance) -- 18th century. | Armorial bookplates (Provenance) | Auction catalogs -- 1755 01 13-01 27. | Auction catalogs. | Catalogs. | Prices (Provenance)
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