Repository: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library / Subject (Topic): Auctions

Creator:: Skinner and Co. (London, England)
Published / Created:: [1786]
Call Number:: X348 S620 1786/4/24 1
Image Count:: 4
Description:: BEIN X348 S620 1786/4/24 Copy 1: With the "No." on t.p., left blank. Inscribed: Georgina Mary Anne Port. Windsor April 1786. Copy 2: With the "No." on t.p., with "1006" in ms. Bound with: Skinner and Co. A marked catalogue containing the lots, wha...
Publisher:: Catalogues may now be had on the premises, and of Mr. Skinner and Co ...
Subject (Geographic):: England and London
Subject (Name):: Wildgoose, Jane,, Portland, Margaret Cavendish Holles Harley Bentinck, Duchess of, 1715-1785, and Portland Museum
Subject (Topic):: Library, Auctions, Natural history, Zoological specimens, Catalogs and collections, Art objects, Shells, and Booksellers' catalogs
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > A catalogue of the Portland Museum : lately the property of the Duchess Dowager of Portland, deceased : which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Skinner and Co. on Monday the 24th of April, 1786 ...

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 Hutch...
Description:: Title etched below image.
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]

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 fr...
Description:: Title etched below image.
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].

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