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1. A catalogue of all the valuable copper plates, with their etchings, proofs, and impressions : an assemblage of original drawings, finished in the finest stile of the several admired Masters : viz. Cipriani, Morland, Wheatley, Angelica, Benwel, Bellange, Westall, Hamilton, &c. &c. &c. : a few pictures and many capital prints, framed and glazed : French and English printing paper, &c.: being the entire stock of Mrs. Diemar, Printseller and Publisher of the Strand : which will be sold by auction by Mr. Christie, at his Great Room, Pall Mall, on Saturday, June the 1st, 1799 : to begin precisely at twelve o'clock, on account of the number of lots : to be viewed two days preceding the sale : catalogues may be had a the Rainbow Coffee House, Cornhill : at Mrs. Diemar's Strand : and in Pall Mall.

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Creator:
Christie, Mr. (James), 1730–1803
Date:
[1799]
Physical Description:
8 pages ; 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

2. 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.

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Creator:
Coxe, Peter, -1844
Date:
[1811]
Physical Description:
15, [1] pages ; 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

3. A catalogue of the extensive and valuable collection of prints and engraved copper plates, in high condition : with a number of proofs, impression, & coloured prints : the whole engraved in mezzotinto, in a superior style of excellence, by Messrs. James and William Ward : from the admirable productions of the following celebrated artists : Sir W. Beechy, W. R. Bigg, H. B. Chalon, J. W. Chandler, C. W. E. Dietricy, T. Gainsborough, J. Green, J. Hoppner, G. Morland, William Owen, J. Opie, Rembrandt, Sir J. Reynolds, J. Rising, Sir P. P. Rubens, M. A. Shee, H. Thompson, J. Ward, G. Walker, and R. Westall : an excellent grand eagle copper plate printing press, with iron and lignum vitae rollers, and apparatus, complete : a ditto, on a small scale : a quantity of thick Swiss grand eagle printing paper, milled boards, print chests, colours, and materials for printing, &c. : which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Dodd, at his auction room, no. 101, St. Martin's Lane, on Wednesday, the 27th day of April, 1808, and following evening, at five o'clock.

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Creator:
Dodd, Thomas, 1771–1850
Date:
[1808]
Physical Description:
8 pages ; 24 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

4. A catalogue of the wholesale stock of copper-plates and dupicate impressions of Mr. John Manson : including Mrs. Pinkerton's Scotch portraits, with many thousand impressions : Cardonnel's Antiquities of Scotland : one hundred plates, with ditto : plates to PIne's Virgil, with four hundred copies : sundry portraits of artists, actors, and unpublished plates, by Mrs. Cosway : duplicate impressions of Bunbury's Shakespeare, by Bartolozzi : a few lots of French printing paper, &c. &c. : which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Richardson, at his house, no. 31, corner of Villiers' Street, Strand, on Tuesday, July 2d, 1805, at five o'clock : to be viewed on Saturday, and till the time of sale, when catalogues may be had.

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Creator:
Richardson, William, active 1778–1815
Date:
[1805]
Physical Description:
7, [1] pages ; 25 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

5. A catalogue of the valuable collection of prints, drawings & pictures of the late distinguished artist, Thomas Rowlandson, Esq. ... : the drawings include several of his most celebrated subjects, many of them the originals, from which he made duplicate drawings : the engravings consist of specimens of the Italian, German, Dutch & Flemish schools : including some fine and most rare productions of Marc Antonio, J. Bonasone, Aug. Veneziano, Aeneas Vico, The Carracci, J. Van Meck, M. Zagel, Albert Durer, Lucas Krug, Le Maitre a L'Ecrevisse, the little German Masters, &c. : amongst the Dutch Masters, are some very fine etchings by Rembrandt, with a few drawings by his hand : a large collection of the works of Rubens, &c. &c. : to which is added, several valuable copper plates, etched by himself, including some of his admired caricatures : also, a few valuable paintings, by Andrea del Sarto, Pordonne, Paris Bordone, Marco Ricci, Vernet, Vandyke, Teniers, &c. : which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Sotheby, at his house, Wellington Street, Strand, on Monday, 23d June, 1828, and three following days.

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Creator:
Sotheby, Samuel, 1771–1842
Date:
[1828]
Physical Description:
35, [1] pages ; 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

6. A catalogue of the valuable collection of original drawings, designs and pictures : the labour of many years' close application, and unremitting study of that ingenious artist, Mr. Thomas Malton, Dec. : comprising an extensive assemblage of views of the principal public buildings in London, Westminster, Oxford, Cambridge, Bath, &c. &c. : many of them enriched with figures by the late W. Hamilton, Esq. R.A. : also, a collection of tinted etchings, in imitation of drawings : together with many valuable copper-plates, with their impressions : loose drawings, sketches and prints : a piano forte, by Beck : a model for a theatre : drawings boards, &c. : which (by order of the executor,) will be sold by auction by Mr. Christie, at the Great Room, Pall Mall, on Friday, May 4, 1804, and following day, at twelve o'clock.

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Creator:
Christie, James, 1773–1831
Date:
[1804]
Physical Description:
12 pages ; 26 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

7. 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.

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Creator:
Christie, James, 1773–1831
Date:
[1809]
Physical Description:
14, [2] pages ; 26 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

8. A catalogue of the valuable collection of copper-plates with impressions : late the property of Mr. Robert Grave, deceased : principally consisting of English portraits, among which are several very scarce, many after Sir Joshua : portraits of comedians : the Cambridge Founders by Faber, retouched by Parker : plates to plot's Staffordshire, and various others : by Bartolozzi, Dickinson, James and Thomas Watson, John Smith, Valentine Green, Fisher, Vertue, Blcoteling, Gaywood, Worlidge, R. White, etc. : together with sundry duplicate impressions, without plates : which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Richardson, at his house, no. 31, corner of Villiers' Street, Strand, on Monday, July 1st, 1805, at five o'clock : to be viewed at Saturday, the 29th of June, and morning of sale.

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Creator:
Richardson, William, active 1778–1815
Date:
[1805]
Physical Description:
19, [1] pages ; 24 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

9. Catalogue of the collection of pictures, particurlarly several interesing marine subjects, the Battles of the Nile, Trafalgar, Algiers, &c. : a sea view, with the Royal Sovereign Yacht, and others from Vandevelde, &c. by Mr. Cartwright, who long enjoyed the patronage of His Royal HIghness the Duke of Clarence as a marine painter : also his series of drawings, taken whilst residing at the Ionian Islands : the plates and copyright of Views in the Ionian Islands, Costumes, Shipping, &c. : with a selection of original drawings and engravingss, by Old Masters : mahogany easels, dresses of Grecian costume, frames, canvass, and unfinished sketches : which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Phillips, at his Great Room, no. 73, New Bond Street, on Thursday, the 28th of May, 1829, at one o'clock, by order of the administrator : may now be viewed, and catalogues had at Mr. Phillips's, 73, New Bond Street.

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Creator:
Phillips, H., -1840
Date:
[1829]
Physical Description:
10 pages ; 21 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

10. A catalogue of the whole of the copper plates, remaining books and prints, of that elegant and accurate publication the Antiquities of Athens, by Stuart and Revett : three volumes Imperial folio : which will be sold by auction by Messrs. King and Lochée at their Great Room, 38, King Street, Covent Garden, on Tuesday, April 15, punctually at three o'clock : catalogues may be had at the room.

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Creator:
King & Lochée
Date:
[approximately 1806]
Physical Description:
4 pages ; 30 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

11. A catalogue of the genuine and intire stock of capital and valuable prints, drawings, and copper-plates, some of which have never been published : and a few pleasing cabinet pictures : the property of Mr. G. Bartolozzi, retiring from business : comprising an extensive assemblage of prints of the finest impressions : drawings by Cipriani and Bartolozzi : and amongst the plates, the celebrated one after the N. Poussin in the possession of the Marquis of Landsdown : a ditto after the four elements of Albano : and a capital engraving in strokes after the celebrated picture of the Madona Del Sacco, of A. Del Sarto, at Florence by Bartolozzi, lately finished, and which may be truly deemed the finest plate ever executed by that artist : which will be sold by auction by Mr. Christie, at his Great Room in Pall Mall, on Friday, June the 23d, 1797, at twelve o'clock : to be viewed till the sale : catalogues may be had at the Rainbow Coffee House, Cornhill : and in Pall Mall.

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Creator:
Christie, Mr. (James), 1730–1803
Date:
[1797]
Physical Description:
6 pages ; 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

12. A catalogue of a valuable collection of pictures, drawings, copper plates, &c., the property, and principally the works of that esteemed and excellent artist Mr. Gainsborough Dupont, dec. : removed from his late dwelling house in Fitzroy Street, amongst which are included several of the most capital and fine productions of his late uncle Mr. Gainsborough, of Pall Mall, dec. : comprising an assemblage of finished and unfinished portraits of many persons of distinction, together with a selection of cabinet pictures, the works of the old esteemed masters : also, a grand selection of the views in India, by the late Ingenious artist Mr. Hodges : -- Portraits by Kettle, &c. the property of Warren Hastings, Esq. brought from his house in Park Lane : which will be sold by auction by Messrs. Christie, Sharp, and Harper, at the Great Room, Pall Mall, on Monday, April 10th, 1797, and following day, at twelve o'clock : to be viewed on Friday and Saturday preceding the sale : catalogues may be had as above, and at no. 32, Great Winchester Street,

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Creator:
Christie, Sharp, and Harper
Date:
[1797]
Physical Description:
10 pages ; 28 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

13. A catalogue of all the remaining works of that distinguished artist, Mortimer : which have been preserved by the Family ever since his decease, and have never yet been exposed to sale : they comprise his sketches and finished drawings, among them : a capital and noble finished pen drawing, St. Paul Preaching to the Druids, and the Death of Sir Philip Sidney : with the copper-plate of the former, by Haynes, and of the latter by Bartolozzi : the copper-plate of the Battle of Agincourt, by Burke : the copper-plates from the subjects of Shakspeare and others, by Mortimer : and etchings by Haynes : the original picture of Vortigern and Rowena, (never engraved) and The Agincourt, by Mortimer : and a charming Landscape by Jones : with figures representing the Death of Orpheus, by Mortimer : which (by order of the Widow,) will be sold by auction, by Mr. Christie, at his Great Room, Pall Mall, on Friday, March the 25th, 1808, at twelve o'clock.

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Creator:
Christie, James, 1773–1831
Date:
[1808]
Physical Description:
8 pages : 27 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

14. A catalogue of the remaining part of the valuable collection of modern drawings : a few paintings, a set of cartoons by L. da Vinci, consisting of the original designs by that great master, for the heads in his picture of the Last Supper : ... models, in wax and terra cotta, by M. Angelo and G. di Bologna : a few bronzes and antique marble bustos : and an engraved copperplate portrait of the young Duke of Reichstadt, never published ; the property of Sir Thomas Lawrence ... deceased : which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Christie, at his great room, King Street, St. James's Square, on Thursday, the 17th of June, and two following days at one o'clock precisely : may be viewed two days preceding, and catalogues had (at 1s. each) at Mr. Christie's Office, 8, King Street, St. James's Square.

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Creator:
Christie, James, 1773–1831
Date:
[1830]
Physical Description:
28, [1] pages ; 29 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts