A catalogue of the extensive and valuable collection of prints and engraved copper plates, in high condition : with a number of proofs, impression, & coloured prints : the whole engraved in mezzotinto, in a superior style of excellence, by Messrs. James and William Ward : from the admirable productions of the following celebrated artists : Sir W. Beechy, W. R. Bigg, H. B. Chalon, J. W. Chandler, C. W. E. Dietricy, T. Gainsborough, J. Green, J. Hoppner, G. Morland, William Owen, J. Opie, Rembrandt, Sir J. Reynolds, J. Rising, Sir P. P. Rubens, M. A. Shee, H. Thompson, J. Ward, G. Walker, and R. Westall : an excellent grand eagle copper plate printing press, with iron and lignum vitae rollers, and apparatus, complete : a ditto, on a small scale : a quantity of thick Swiss grand eagle printing paper, milled boards, print chests, colours, and materials for printing, &c. : which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Dodd, at his auction room, no. 101, St. Martin's Lane, on Wednesday, the 27th day of April, 1808, and following evening, at five o'clock.

[London] : Mr. Dodd, [1808]

8 pages ; 24 cm

BAC: British Art Center copy is not annotated. Number 5 of 42 auction catalogs bound together. The volume bound in contemporary half calf; with the armorial bookplate of Baron Northwick; signed in manuscript: William Upcott, London Institution, 1823.

English

February 26, 2018

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