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
"Satire on Bute's alleged sale of public positions paralleled with Earl Talbot's introduction of economies into the royal household. An auction is taking place in a large kitchen where, in the centre, Talbot, Lord Steward of the Household, instructs t...
Alternative Title:
Catalogue of the kitchen furniture of John Bull Esqr. leaving of house-keeping now selling by auction
Description:
Title etched above image.
Publisher:
Publish'd according to act of Parliament by J. Williams, next the Mitre Tavern, Fleet Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Talbot, William Talbot, Earl, 1710-1782, Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1719-1772, and Bute, John Stuart, Earl of, 1713-1792
Subject (Topic):
Royal households, Accounting, Auctions, Cooks, and Kitchens
"A spectacled auctioneer (the well-known Squibb) stands full-face in his rostrum with hammer raised, pointing downwards at a misshapen brass (yellow) figure of Queen Caroline in quasi-classical draperies, her arms akimbo, and displaying an ungainly le...
Alternative Title:
Going! A going! the last time ... To be sold by public auction, by Mr. Squib at Bullock's rooms ...
Description:
Title etched above image.
Publisher:
Pubd. Aprial [sic] 13, 1821, by G. Humphrey, No. 27 St. James's St., London
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821, Wood, Matthew, Sir, 1768-1843, Squibb, George, approximately 1764-1831, Bergami, Bartolomeo Bergami, Baron., Bullock, William, 1773-1849., and Xanthippe.
Subject (Topic):
Auctions, Auctioneers, Stages (Platforms), Gavels, Sculpture, Documents, and Liberty cap
"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
In the center an auctioneer, hammer in hand, stands behind a podium having sold a pack of hounds with the human faces; Sheridan holds the hounds leashes. One dog sleeps on the floor as another urinates on its bone. On the left, a grey horse neighs as...
Description:
Possibly by Williams, based on style.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 17th 1812 by Wm. Holland No 11 Cockspur Street
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Grey, Charles Grey, Earl, 1764-1845, and Sheridan, Richard Brinsley, 1751-1816
Page 73. Catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Exterior view of the temporary wooden structure built for the Strawberry Hill Sale of 1842, with part of Horace Walpole's Gothic villa visible on the left
Description:
Title and statement of responsibility written in ink below image, on mounting sheet.
"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.
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
"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.
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
"A portrait of James Christie the elder (1730-1803) standing in his auctioneer's rostrum. His head is turned in profile to the left. He smiles insinuatingly, his hands held out, his hammer in his right hand. The word 'eloquence' in the title is engrav...
Alternative Title:
King of epithets
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany. 1st 1782 by H. Humphrey, No. 18 New Bond Street
Byron, Frederick George, 1764-1792, attributed name
Published / Created:
July 8, 1790.
Call Number:
790.07.08.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
In a large room French aristocrats crowd across a table from Pitt who is taking money while handing a pen to the man opposite who holds a crown in his left arm as he throws coins toward Pitt's grasping hand. Above Pitt stands George III behind podium,...
Alternative Title:
English coronet auction by King, Pitt & Co., or, Comfort for the late French noblesse Comfort for the late French noblesse
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Willm. Holland, No. 50 Oxford Street
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain., France, and France.
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, Charlotte, Queen, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818, and Pitt, William, 1759-1806
Subject (Topic):
Refugees, History, Avarice, Auctions, Corruption, Crowds, Crowns, and Nobility
Page 71. Catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Exterior view of the temporary wooden structure built for the Strawberry Hill Sale of 1842, with part of Horace Walpole's Gothic villa visible on the left
Description:
Title and statement of responsibility written in ink below image, on mounting sheet.
"Interior view of the room, looking down from the gallery during a sale; a large round lightwell in centre of ceiling."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pub. 1st Decr. 1808 at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
Page 69. Catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Interior view of the temporary wooden structure built for the Strawberry Hill Sale of 1842. Men and women stand or sit on benches around a long table; auctioneer George Robins, surrounded by framed pictures, conducts the auction from a podium at the f...
Description:
Title from note in pencil below image, on mounting sheet.
Subject (Name):
Robins, George Henry, 1777-1847, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
An unfinished sketch for the engraving which appeared in the November 1845 issue of "George Cruikshank's Table-book," illustrating a brief article on railroad speculation by the periodical's editor, Gilbert Abbott a Beckett. John Bull is beset by lill...
Alternative Title:
Anticipated effects of the railway calls
Description:
Title from pencil annotation below image, in the artist's hand.
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Auctions, Fictitious characters, Money, and Railroads
"Imp-like creatures of the railway company, gathered around the seated figure of John Bull, stripping him of his clothes and possessions, an auctioneer selling elements of his wardrobe, trains pulling boxes of money and silver plate"--British Museum o...
Alternative Title:
Anticipated effects of the railway calls
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
George Bell
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Topic):
John Bull (Symbolic character), Auctions, Fictitious characters, Money, and Railroads
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.
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
