A Catalogue of a valuable and highly interesting collection of pictures by favourite English artists, consisting of a very choice and fine assemblage of the works of that admired landscape painter Gainsborough, both paintings and drawings, framed and glazed : the property of the late S. Kilderbee, Esq., of Suffolk : who was the particular friend of Gainsborough, and for whom a few of these were painted expressly by the artist : also a capital landscpe by Wilson, and a few other pictures, the property of the Rev. W. Rose, of Cashalton, deceased : the chief of which was painted expressly for Mr. Rose by Wilson : an original portrait of Joseph Sharpe, Esq. by Sir Joshua Reynolds : a sea-scape by Calcott : the detected correspondence, and a portrait of his late mother, by Opie : and various by A. Kauffman, West, Stothard, Wheatley, Ward, Glover, Barker, Westall, Morland, Arnold, and some fine drawings in water colours by Glover, Turner, Copley Fielding, Reinagle, Robson, Nicholson, Munn, and P. Sandby : which will by sold by auction, by Mr. Christie, at his great room, 8, King Street, St. James's Square, on Saturday, May the 30th, 1829, precisely at one o'clock : may be viewed two days preceding, and catalogues had at Mr. Christie's office, King Street, St. James's Square.

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Christie, James, 1773-1831, A Catalogue of a valuable and highly interesting collection of pictures by favourite English artists, consisting of a very choice and fine assemblage of the works of that admired landscape painter Gainsborough, both paintings and drawings, framed and glazed , [1829]

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Creator:: Christie, James, 1773–1831
Title(s):: A Catalogue of a valuable and highly interesting collection of pictures by favourite English artists, consisting of a very choice and fine assemblage of the works of that admired landscape painter Gainsborough, both paintings and drawings, framed and glazed : the property of the late S. Kilderbee, Esq., of Suffolk : who was the particular friend of Gainsborough, and for whom a few of these were painted expressly by the artist : also a capital landscpe by Wilson, and a few other pictures, the property of the Rev. W. Rose, of Cashalton, deceased : the chief of which was painted expressly for Mr. Rose by Wilson : an original portrait of Joseph Sharpe, Esq. by Sir Joshua Reynolds : a sea-scape by Calcott : the detected correspondence, and a portrait of his late mother, by Opie : and various by A. Kauffman, West, Stothard, Wheatley, Ward, Glover, Barker, Westall, Morland, Arnold, and some fine drawings in water colours by Glover, Turner, Copley Fielding, Reinagle, Robson, Nicholson, Munn, and P. Sandby : which will by sold by auction, by Mr. Christie, at his great room, 8, King Street, St. James's Square, on Saturday, May the 30th, 1829, precisely at one o'clock : may be viewed two days preceding, and catalogues had at Mr. Christie's office, King Street, St. James's Square.
Published/Created:: [London] : [Mr. Christie], [1829]
Physical Description:: 10 pages ; 29 cm
Holdings:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
N8640 .N6+ v. 7 no.18 Oversize
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Rare Books and Manuscripts
N8640 .F67 1829
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Copyright Status:: Copyright Not Evaluated
Full Orbis Record:: http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/13674406
Classification:: Books
Notes:: Getty provenance index databases, sale catalog Br-3300
Lugt, F. Répertoire des catalogues de ventes publiques, 12074
Date of sale: May 30, 1829.
Place of sale: London.
BAC: British Art Center copy 1 is annotated in pen and ink with sale prices for some lots. Number 18 of 42 auction catalogs bound together. Two copies bound. The volume bound in contemporary half calf; with the armorial bookplate of Baron Northwick; signed in manuscript: William Upcott, London Institution, 1819.
BAC: British Art Center copy 2 is annotated in ink with sale prices for all lots. Bound in half calf with marbled boards. Armorial bookplate: Joseph Neeld. Bound with: Catalogue of the collection of pictures of that eminent connoisseur and collector the late Richard Mortimer, Esq. ... [London], [1829]
Subject Terms:: Arnold, George, 177763-1841.
Art -- Private collections -- Great Britain -- Catalogs.
Art auctions -- England -- London -- Catalogs.
Callcott, Augustus Wall, 1779-1844.
Drawing, British -- Catalogs.
Fielding, Copley, 1787-1855.
Gainsborough, Thomas, 1727-1788.
Glover, John, 1767-1849.
Kauffmann, Angelica, 1741-1807.
Kilderbee, Samuel, 1725-1813 -- Art collections -- Catalogs.
Morland, George, 1764-1804.
Munn, Paul Sandby, 1773-1845.
Neeld, Joseph -- Bookplate.
Nicholson, Francis, 1753-1844.
Opie, John, 1761-1807.
Painting, British -- Catalogs.
Reinagle, Alexander, 1756-1809.
Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723-1792.
Robson, George Fennel, 1788-1833.
Rose, William, -1829 -- Art collections -- Catalogs.
Sandby, Paul, 1731-1809.
Stothard, Thomas, 1755-1834.
Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775-1851.
Ward, James, 1769-1859.
West, Benjamin, 1738-1820.
Westall, Richard, 1765-1836.
Wheatley, Francis, 1747-1801.
Wilson, Andrew, 1780-1848.
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