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1. [Frontispiece to the catalogue of Charles Jervas's sale, 1740] [graphic].

Creator:: Van der Gucht, Gerard, 1696-1776, printmaker, artist
Published / Created:: [1740]
Call Number:: 724 791K
Collection Title:: Volume 3, opposite page 466. Epistles, elegant, familiar, & instructive, selected from the best
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: "Frontispiece to the catalogue of the sale of Charles Jervas' studio (1739/40); an allegorical female figure holding a palette and brushes standing on the right, who lays an oval bas-relief portrait of Jervas on a plinth attached to a pyramid, while a cherub cuts the inscription on the plinth below: 'The Collection of Charles Jarvis Esq Consisiting of Paintings, Prints, Drawings, Basso Relievo, &c &c'; with classical artistic fragments to left and classical buildings in the background, including Trajan's column, and a fragment on the right inscribed 'Heath Auctioneer'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:: Title, artist, and printmaker from the Catalogue of engraved British portraits., Frontispiece to: A catalogue of the most valuable collection of pictures, prints, and drawings late of Charles Jarvis Esq; deceased. [London] : [publisher not identified], [1740]., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Folded to 20.3 x 12.2 cm; mounted on leaf 24 x 14 cm., and Bound in opposite page 466 in volume 3 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Knox, V. Epistles, elegant, familiar, & instructive, selected from the best writers ... London : Rivington [etc.], 1791.
Publisher:: publisher not identified
Subject (Name):: Jervas, Charles, approximately 1675-1739,
Subject (Topic):: Artists' materials, Columns, Pyramids, Sculpture, and Portraits
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