Christie's Auction Room [graphic]

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Description

Title
Christie's Auction Room [graphic]
Creator
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker
Contributor
Pugin, Augustus, 1762-1832, artist.
Bluck, John (Printmaker), printmaker.
Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764-1834, publisher.
Published / Created
[1 February 1808]
Publication Place
London
Publisher
Pub. Feb. 1, 1808, at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
Abstract

"Scene in an auction room, a sale in progress; paintings hang from walls and are displayed from an easel, a crowd gathers in room."--British Museum online catalogue

Description
Title etched below image.
Plate numbered in upper right, above image: Plate 6.
Plate from: Microcosm of London. London : R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, No. 101 Strand, [1808-1810?], v. 1, opposite page 32.
1 print : etching and aquatint on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 25.2 x 30.7 cm.
Imperfect; plate number erased from sheet, and sheet trimmed within plate mark on top edge.
Watermark: 1805.
Mounted on leaf 24 of volume 9 of 14 volumes.
Provenance
From a collection in fourteen volumes compiled by Francis Harvey and dispersed at auction, Sotheby, London, June 1900. Sold at Sotheby, London, 12 March 1919. Bequest of Hugh Dudley Auchincloss to Yale University Library, 1981. Bound by Riviere & Son in three-quarters red morocco with gold tooling and gold lettering on spine.
Extent
1 print : plate mark 24.3 x 29.9 cm, on sheet 26.4 x 34 cm
Extent of Digitization
This object has been completely digitized.
Language
English

Collection Information

Repository
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Call Number
Auchincloss Rowlandson v. 9
Collection Title
V. 1 Microcosm of London.
Collection Date
[London] : R. Ackermann's repository of arts, no. 101 Strand, [1808-10]

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre
Pictorial works
Book illustrations
Aquatints England London 1808
Etchings England London 1808
Ink stamps (Provenance)
Material
etching and aquatint ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type
still image
Subject (Geographic)
London (England)
England
London.
Subject (Name)
Christie, Manson & Woods.
Subject (Topic)
Audiences
Crowds
Events
Interiors
Art auctions
Subjects
Christie, Manson & Woods
London (England) > Pictorial works
Audiences > England > London
Crowds > England > London
Events > England > London
Interiors > England > London
Art auctions > England > London
England > London > 1808
Chadwyck-Healey, Charles E. H. (Charles Edward Heley), Sir, 1845-1919 > Bookplate
Bradfer-Lawrence, H. L. (Harry Lawrence) > Bookplate
Riviere > Binding

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Rights
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Identifiers

Orbis Record
12971739
Object ID (OID)
11791985

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