A scene outside a racetrack or at Tattersall's horse market with an auctioneer on a platform at the right and some dozen other male figures, probably caricatures of real individuals, occupy the foreground, while a groom runs with a horse in front of the stables
Alternative Title:
Tatter'd-sale
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate numbered "39" in upper left corner and "V. 1" in upper right corner., and For a brief mention of this print, see description for no. 5369 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Mary Darly
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain. and England
Subject (Name):
Tattersalls (Firm)
Subject (Topic):
Horse buyers, Horse trading, Clothing & dress, Auctioneers, and Horses
Leaf 8. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A scene outside a racetrack or at Tattersall's horse market with an auctioneer on a platform at the right and some dozen other male figures, probably caricatures of real individuals, occupy the foreground, while a groom runs with a horse in front of the stables
Alternative Title:
Tatter'd-sale
Description:
Title etched below image., For a brief mention of this print, see description for no. 5369 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., On leaf 8., and With remnant of red wax seal on bottom edge of sheet.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Mary Darly
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain. and England
Subject (Name):
Tattersalls (Firm)
Subject (Topic):
Horse buyers, Horse trading, Clothing & dress, Auctioneers, and Horses
"A half length portrait of Christie standing in his auctioneer's rostrum, the upper part of which forms the base of the design. He leans insinuatingly to the left, his head in profile, spectacles on his forehead, his hammer delicately raised."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Three lines of text below title: Will your ladyship do me the honor to say £50-000 - a mere trifle - a brilliant of the first water, an unheard of price for such a lot, surely., Temporary local subject terms: Auctioneers' hammers., Leaf 10 in an album with the spine title: Characatures by Dighton., 1 print : etching with stipple on laid paper, hand-colored ; plate mark 19.8 x 14.9 cm, on sheet 31.1 x 25.5 cm., and Figure identified as "Mr. Christie" in pencil in lower left corner of sheet.
"A half length portrait of Christie standing in his auctioneer's rostrum, the upper part of which forms the base of the design. He leans insinuatingly to the left, his head in profile, spectacles on his forehead, his hammer delicately raised."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Three lines of text below title: Will your ladyship do me the honor to say £50-000 - a mere trifle - a brilliant of the first water, an unheard of price for such a lot, surely., and Temporary local subject terms: Auctioneers' hammers.
Title from item., Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram., Series numbers in upper left and right corner of plate, respectively: V.2 5., Eight lines of text below title: All the valuable goods and effects of a savoir-vivre bankrupt consisting of a collection of very scarce books (not to be met with in any of the public libraries) ..., Another state, with volume and plate number added. Cf. No. 5171 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5., and Temporary local subject terms: Bankruptcy.
Title from description in the British Museum catalogue for the original version of the print., Publication date based on an adverstisement of the series in Robert Sayer's catalog for 1766. See no. 1858 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 2., Slightly reduced copy in reverse, without attribution and with different verses, of a print published ca. 1730. Cf. No. 1863 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 2., Original print was etched by W.H. Toms after a design by Egbert van Heemskerck II., Eight lines of verse in two columns below image: Now gentlemen - see, here's a piece! I hope you'll all bid up for this, two guineas, thirty shillings, twenty sure gentlemen, that will content ye ..., and Temporary local subject terms: Paintings: Anthony Van Dyck, 1599-1641 -- Paintings: Adriaen van de Velde, 1636-1672, or Cornelius van de Velde, 1699-1729 -- Lighting: trident-like torch -- Reference to South Sea Company -- Reference to East India Company -- Artist's implements: palette and brushes -- Lions -- Monkeys -- Bulls -- Cats -- Sheep -- Goats.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Art auctions, Auctioneers, Jewelry, Paintings, Torches, and Artists' materials
Volume 1, page 127. Catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill collected by Horace
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Interior view of the temporary wooden structure built for the Strawberry Hill Sale of 1842. Several dozen men in top hats and some women sit or stand around a long table on the left; the auctioneer George Robins sits on a platform on the right, holding a gavel
Description:
Title devised by curator., Signed by the artist in lower left corner of image., and Bound in as page 127 in volume 1 of Thomas Mackinlay's extra-illustrated copy of A catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill collected by Horace Walpole.
Subject (Name):
Robins, George Henry, 1777-1847, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Volume 1, page 161. Catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill collected by Horace
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
The auctioneer George Robins is shown full-length in profile to the left, sitting at a small table draped with a tablecloth, an inkwell and a goblet on the table in front of him. He sits on the 16th-century oak chair from Glastonbury Abbey, an item from Horace Walpole's collection at Strawberry Hill that Robins auctioned off in 1842
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Signed with initials and dated by the artist in lower left corner of image., and Bound in as page 161 in volume 1 of Thomas Mackinlay's extra-illustrated copy of A catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill collected by Horace Walpole.
Subject (Name):
Robins, George Henry, 1777-1847, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Auctioneers, Tables, Chairs, Writing materials, and Drinking vessels
Page 65. Catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
The auctioneer George Robins is shown full-length in profile to the left, sitting at a small table draped with a tablecloth, an inkwell and a goblet on the table in front of him. He sits on the 16th-century oak chair from Glastonbury Abbey, an item from Horace Walpole's collection at Strawberry Hill that Robins auctioned off in 1842
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Signed in lower left corner with the initials of artist E. Bell., Date of production based on the 1842 publication date of the Strawberry Hill sale catalogue, into which this drawing was inserted as an illustration., Mounted with a clipped facsimile signature of George Robins, a clipping about Robins having "assumed for his throne the very ancient chair of oak once pertaining to Glastonbury Abbey", and another clipping about the chair itself., and Mounted on page 65 in an extra-illustrated copy of A catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill.
Subject (Name):
Robins, George Henry, 1777-1847, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Auctioneers, Tables, Chairs, Writing materials, and Drinking vessels
