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Creator:
White, John, active 1785–1816
Title(s):
A catalogue of the renowned and valuable collection of Italian, Venetian, Flemish, and Dutch pictures : late the property of John Purling, Esq., deceased .: whose accurate judgment, pure taste and liberality in purchasing, rendered his Cabinet equal to most of the private galleries in Europe, and exhibits a magnificent assemblage of the works of Raphael, Correggio, Carracci, Guido, Domenichino, P. Da Cortona, Pamegiano, Titian, Tintoretto, S. Ricci, P. Veronese, C. Maratti, Claude, Poussin, Murillo, Cuyp, Rubens, Teniers, Wouvermans, P. Potter, Vanderwerff, Vandervelde, Berchem, Ferg, Zuccarelli,Wilson, &c. : including the beautiful picture La Vierge au Peloton, by Guido, well known to have occupied a most distinguished place in the Royal Collection of France : which will be sold by auction (by authority of the executors without the least reserve) by Mr. White, on the premises, no. 68 Portland Place on Monday, the 16th of February, 1801 and following day, at twelve o-clock : to be viewed till the sale, admission of each person by catalogues (only) which may be had at one shilling each at the place of Sale, and of Mr. White, Storey's Gate, Westminster.
Additional Title(s):
Catalogue of the renowned and valuable collection of pictures of John Purling, Esq., deceased
Published/Created:
[London] : [Mr. White], [1801]
[London] : Mary Ann Low, Berwick Street, Soho,
Physical Description:
22, [2] pages ; 27 cm
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
N8640 .N6 + v. 3 no. 2 copy 1 Oversize
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Rare Books and Manuscripts
N8640 .N6 + v. 6 no. 13 copy 2 Oversize
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Includes appendix listing painting surface and frame size of each lot: [2] pages at end.
Getty provenance index databases, sale catalog Br-13
Lugt, F. Répertoire des catalogues de ventes publiques, 6199
Place of auction: London.
Date of auction: February 16th-17th, 1801.
BAC: British Art Center copy 1 is annotated with sale prices for all lots. Number 2 of 47 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. Black stamp with initials "JW" on title page. Tipped in before text is a 3 page extract from a descriptive catalogue of a collection of pictures published by Sir Robert Strange, 1769. Lot 46 in Mr. Purling's Collection. Raffaelle. The V‏irgin, with our Saviour and St, John.
BAC: British Art Center copy 2 is annotated with sale prices for some lots. Number 13 of 53 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. Black stamp with initials "JW" on title page.
Subject Terms:
Art -- Private collections -- Great Britain -- Catalogs.
Art auctions -- England -- London -- Catalogs.
London Institution -- Ownership.
Low, Mary Ann -- Printer.
Northwick, John Rushout, Baron, 1770–1859 -- Bookplate.
Painting, European -- Catalogs.
Purling, John, -1800 -- Art collections -- Catalogs.
Upcott, William, 1779–1845 -- Autograph.
Form/Genre:
Auction catalogs.
Contributors:
Berchem, Nicolaas Pietersz, 1620–1683
Carracci, Annibale, 1560–1609.
Corréggio, Niccolò da, 1450–1508
Claude, Jean, 1619–1687.
Cuyp, Jacob Gerritsz., 1594–1652.
Pietro, da Cortona, 1597–1669
De Dominici, Bernardo, 1684–1750.
Ferg, Franz de Paula, 1689–1740.
Guido,
Maratti, Carlo, 1625–1713
Murillo, Bartolomé Esteban, 1617–1682.
Parmigianino, 1503–1540
Potter, Paulus, 1625–1654
Poussin, Nicolas, 1594?-1665.
Raphael, 1483–1520.
Ricci, Sebastiano, 1659–1734
Rubens, Peter Paul, 1577–1640.
Teniers, David, 1610–1690.
Tintoretto, 1518–1594
Titian, approximately 1488–1576.
Werff, Adriaen van der, 1659–1722.
Velde, Adriaen van de, 1636–1672.
Veronese, 1528–1588
Wilson,
Wouwerman, Philips, 1619?-1668.
Zuccaro, Federico, approximately 1540–1609
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