Creator:

Sotheby and Son

Title:
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
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:

Lithography by G. E. Madeley.

Lugt, F. RĂ©pertoire 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 auctions -- England -- London -- Catalogs. | Art -- Private collections -- Great Britain -- Catalogs. | Decorative arts -- Catalogs. | Egypt -- Antiquities -- Catalogs. | Northwick, John Rushout, Baron, 1770–1859 -- Bookplate. | Davy, J. -- Printer.
Form/Genre:
Auction catalogs. | Lithographs -- 1833.
Contributors:
Madeley, George Edward, lithographer.