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Creator:
Christie, James, 1773-1831
Title(s):

A catalogue of a truly choice and capital collection of Italian, French, Flemish, and Dutch pictures : comprising superb gallery chef d'œuvres, and an assemblage of high-finished cabinet bijoux ..., being the admired collection lately exhibited at the Academy rooms in Pall Mall, which were purchased at great expence on the continent or from the Orleans, Holderness, Lansdown, Gordon, and other collections : among them are of particular value and celebrity : Heads of the Virgin and Child : the original finished studio by Corregio, for the Marriage of St. Catharine, formerly in the possession of the King of Naples : The Woman Taken in Adultery, Titian ... : The Death of Archimedes, S. Rose ... : a wood scene, by Hobbima ... : ...Landscape with Horsemen, and a View of Dort, Cuyp ... : a beautiful landscape, Potter, the Favorite Holderness Netscher : besides finest specimens of the following great and rare Masters : Schidone, Garofalo, Albano, C. Dolce, P. Da Cortona, Bourdon, Rubens, V. Dyck , Teniers, P. Neefs, Wouvermans, Du Jardin, A.V. De Velde, Berchem, Pynaker, Wynants, Capella, Maes, Metzu, F. Mieris, Lingelback, V. Os, Dietrich, Wilson : which will be sold by auction by Mr. Christie at his Great Room, Pall Mall, on Saturday, January the 26th, 1811, precisely at one o'clock.

Published/Created:
[London] : Mr. Christie, [1811]
London : G. Smeeton, Printer, 17, St. Martin's Lane,
Physical Description:
18 pages ; 28 cm
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
N8640 .N6+ v. 5.no.40 Oversize
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Getty provenance index databases, sale catalog Br-841
Lugt, F. Répertoire des catalogues de ventes publiques, 7919
Date of sale: Jan. 26, 1811.
Place of sale: London.
BAC: British Art Center copy is not annotated. Number 40 of 42 auction catalogs bound together. The volume bound in contemporary half calf; with the armorial bookplate of Baron Northwick; signed in manuscript: William Upcott, London Institution, 1823.
Subject Terms:
Art -- Private collections -- Great Britain -- Catalogs.
Art auctions -- England -- London -- Catalogs.
London Institution -- Ownership.
Northwick, John Rushout, Baron, 1770-1859 -- Bookplate.
Painting, European -- Catalogs.
Upcott, William, 1779-1845 -- Autograph.
Form/Genre:
Auction catalogs.
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