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 ...

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Title: 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: Skinner and Co. (London, England)
Contributor: Grignion, Charles, 1721-1810, engraver.
Burney, Edward Francis, 1760-1848, illustrator.
Published / Created: [1786]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Catalogues may now be had on the premises, and of Mr. Skinner and Co ...
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, what each respectively sold for, and the names of the purchasers. London : Printed for Kearsley ... Walker ... Sewell ... Flexney ... Robson ... and Egerton ..., 1786.
Frontispiece engraved by Charles Grignion; after Edward Francis Burney.
Signatures: pi⁴ A-2A⁴.
At foot of titlepage: "No.", the actual number to be inserted in MS.; a variant is without "No." at the foot of the titlepage.
A price list entitled 'A marked catalogue containing the lots' was published in the same year.
The present sale catalog, and the image depicted in its frontispiece, served as the primary point of reference for "Promiscuous assemblage, friendship & the order of things: an installation by Jane Wildgoose in celebration of the friendship between Mrs. Delany & the Duchess Dowager of Portland." The installation accompanied the exhibition "Mrs. Delany and Her Circle" (Yale Center for British Art and Sir John Soane's Museum, 2009-2010).
BAC: British Art Center copy bound in contemporary quarter calf with marbled boards. Armorial bookplates: Wm. Simonds Higgs and Baron Northwick. No. 1277 (completed in ms. on title page). Includes an added engraving of the Portland Vase printed in blue, tipped in at end.
BAC: British Art Center has an additional unbound copy of the frontispiece (QH70.G72 P67 1786a+).
Extent: viii, [1], 4-194 p., [1] leaf of plates : 28 cm. (4vo)
Extent of Digitization: This object has been partially digitized.
Language: English

Collection Information

Repository: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Call Number: X348 S620 1786/4/24 1

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre: Catalogs
Early works to 1800
Catalogs and collections
Auction catalogues England London 1786
Engravings 1786
Engravings Hand-colored 1786
Armorial bookplates (Provenance)
Chron
Material: ill. ;
Subject (Geographic): England
London
Subject (Name): Wildgoose, Jane,
Portland, Margaret Cavendish Holles Harley Bentinck, Duchess of, 1715-1785
Portland Museum
Subject (Topic): Library
Auctions
Natural history
Zoological specimens
Catalogs and collections
Art objects
Shells
Booksellers' catalogs
Subjects: Wildgoose, Jane
Portland, Margaret Cavendish Holles Harley Bentinck, Duchess of, 1715-1785 > Library > Catalogs
Auctions > England > London > Catalogs > Early works to 1800
Portland Museum > Catalogs > Early works to 1800
Natural history > Catalogs and collections > Early works to 1800
Zoological specimens > Catalogs and collections > Catalogs > Early works to 1800
Art objects > Catalogs > Early works to 1800
Shells > Catalogs and collections > Early works to 1800
Booksellers' catalogs > England > London > Early works to 1800
England > London > 1786
1786
Hand-colored > 1786
Portland, Georgina Mary Anne > Autograph, 1786
Chron > 1786
Mr. Skinner and Co. > Publisher
Higgs, Wm. Simonds > Bookplate
Northwick, Baron > Bookplate

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Identifiers

Catalog Record: 3879085
Object ID (OID): 2013321