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1.
A catalogue of the superb household furniture, magnificent jewels, embellished watches and snuff

Creator:
Christie and Ansell (London, England), auctioneer
Published / Created:
[1777]
Call Number:
125 C555 777
Image Count:
27
Resource Type:
text
Description:
Not in ESTC and With extensive ms. notes recording prices paid throughout.
Publisher:
Christie and Ansell
Subject (Geographic):
England and London
Subject (Name):
Damer, John and Christie and Ansell (London, England)
Subject (Topic):
House furnishings, Book auctions, Jewelry, and Auctions
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A catalogue of the superb household furniture, magnificent jewels, embellished watches and snuff boxes. : ... of the Hon. Mr. Damer, dec. ... which will be sold by auction, by Mess. Christie and Ansell ... on Monday, February the 3d, 1777, and the nine following days

2.
A print sale [graphic]

Creator:
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1788]
Call Number:
Auchincloss Rowlandson v. 3
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"The interior of a sale-room lit by a candelabra hanging from the ceiling. The buyers and connoisseurs sit on the outer side of a line of trestle-tables arranged in the arc of a circle. Others stand behind them. In the centre sits the auctioneer Hutchins, stout and smiling, his hammer raised. The clerk (Judd) sits facing him in shadow, writing at a small table lit by two candles. Two attendants stand on the inner side of the trestles showing the lots. One (left) shows a large volume to a group of five, the centre figure being the spectacled Dr. Lort. On the walls of the room are framed pictures, including one of a reclining Venus. On the high chimney-piece are statuettes. The persons are portraits, slightly caricatured, and drawn with humour and expressiveness."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., From a series entitled: Imitations of modern drawings. See British Museum online catalogue., and Mounted on leaf 16 of volume 3 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Auctions, Candelabras, Auctioneers, Pictures, Sculpture, and Chimneypieces
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > A print sale [graphic]

3.
A treat for the ladies, or, An extensive dealer, disposing of articles of his own manufacture

Published / Created:
[1820]
Call Number:
Folio 724 835G v.1 (Oversize)
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Caricature with George IV as an auctioneer selling his royal crown with cuckold's horns to a group of ladies."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Extensive dealer, disposing of articles of his own manufacture
Description:
Title etched below image., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1975,0621.18., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., Temporary local subject terms: Crowns with cuckhold's horns -- Royal arms -- Furniture -- Auctioneer -- Costume: male, female, 1820 -- Coronets -- Cuckold's horns., 1 print : etching ; sheet 24 x 34.2 cm., Printed on laid paper with watermark "G. Pike 1820"; hand-colored., Mounted to 58 x 39 cm., Mounted on leaf 72 in volume 1 of the W.E. Gladstone collection of caricatures and broadsides surrounding the "Queen Caroline Affair.", and Figure of "George IV" identified in pencil at bottom of sheet; date "1820" written in ink in lower right.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821., and Conyngham, Elizabeth Conyngham, Marchioness, -1861.
Subject (Topic):
Adultery, Crowns, Horns (Anatomy), Coats of arms, Auctions, Auctioneers, Women, and Sofas
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A treat for the ladies, or, An extensive dealer, disposing of articles of his own manufacture [graphic].

4.
Sketches taken at print sales [graphic].

Published / Created:
[1 February 1798]
Call Number:
798.02.01.03
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Portrait heads of fifty-five men, mostly in profile, identified elsewhere as portraits of various print sellers, collectors, artists, etc., sketched by Paul Sandby while attending print sales in London
Description:
Title etched below image., "The portrait heads are based on thumbnail drawings made by Paul Sandby in the margins of print sale catalogues of the 1780s, now in an album in the Royal Library. They are described by A.P. Oppé in "The Drawings of Paul and Thomas Sandby at Windsor Castle" (Phaidon, 1947), pp. 83-85"--British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1876,1209.612., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Publisher:
Published Feby. the 1st, 1798, by Sylvester Harding, 127 Pall Mall
Subject (Geographic):
England, London, and London.
Subject (Topic):
Auctions, Print dealers, Prints, and Collectors and collecting
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Sketches taken at print sales [graphic].

5.
The celebrated Clark, exalted to the pulpit by the humility of a royal bishop [graphic].

Published / Created:
[22 April 1809]
Call Number:
53 C599 S809
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Mrs. Clarke auctions commissions from a rostrum to a crowd of bidders, while the Duke of York acts as her clerk. All are unconscious of a net in which they are enclosed, and with which the Devil flies off into flames (right). Mrs. Clarke (right), in profile to the left, with raised hammer, holds out a paper headed Commission. She says: Going for no more than £500 a Commission Positively worth 5000. An officer, probably Dowler, see British Museum satires no. 11253, holds out his arms towards her, saying, my dear dear dear Angel Knock it down to me or I am ruin'd. Another says: Let the good Bishop [the Duke, see British Museum satires no. 11227] have the Game & we my Boy will have the Cream. The other applicants are in civilian dress; one says to the bidder: my dear fellow dont be so anxious for depend upon it these tricks will be Found out & all will be Lost. The Duke of York, in uniform, records the bids in a book, his pen resting on the figure 500. He says Thus am I content to record & ratify the Destruction of the Army, my Country & myself, rather than loose my dear DARLING to [cf. British Museum satires no. 11228]. The Devil looks over his shoulder at Mrs. Clarke to say with a baleful grin: Going, Going Gon you may now say, for I have You tight enough my dear Honey."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Celebrated Clarke, exalted to the pulpit by the humility of a royal bishop
Description:
Title etched below image., Four lines verse below title: Who for the tricks he has done in the dark, is content to be his darling Clark's clerk. And to cure her from being more love sick, has given her a royal dukes bishopric., Sheet trimmed to plate mark at top., 1 print : etching ; sheet 24.6 x 34.9 cm., Printed on wove paper; hand-colored., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Bound in between pages 8 and 9.
Publisher:
Pubd. 22nd April 1809 by J.H. Warl, London
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Clarke, Mary Anne, 1776?-1852 and Frederick Augustus, Prince, Duke of York and Albany, 1763-1827
Subject (Topic):
Political corruption, History, Sex, Political aspects, Corruption, Military officers, British, Auctions, Nets, and Devil
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The celebrated Clark, exalted to the pulpit by the humility of a royal bishop [graphic].

6.
The state auction [graphic].

Creator:
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Published / Created:
[26 March] 1784.
Call Number:
Auchincloss Rowlandson v. 1
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
William Pitt, acting as an auctioneer in the dissoluted Parliament, sells from the rostrum decorated with Royal Arms "useless valuables," such as "Magna Charta." Cornwall, the Speaker sitting below the rostrum, records bids in the "Sundry acts." In front of him stands Thurlow in Chancellor's robes making dismissive comment on "nonsensical bidings of those common fellows," i.e. members of the House of Commons who leave through the door on the left. Last of them, Fox, turns back vowing to bid "with spirit" for lot 1, "rights of the people in 558 vol." held on display by Henry Dundas. A reference to the dissolution of the Parliament by the King on March 25.
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., 1 print : etching on laid paper ; plate mark 24.8 x 35 cm, on sheet 25.7 x 36.1 cm., Imprint annotated in ink with "/84" below the day of publication., and Formerly mounted on leaf 51 of volume 1 of 14 volumes.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 26th by W. Humphrey, No. 227 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain, England, and Westminster
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806, Cornwall, Charles Wolfran, 1735-1789, and Dundas, Henry, 1742-1811
Subject (Topic):
Great Britain, Politics and government, Political elections, Auctions, and Clothing & dress
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > The state auction [graphic].