Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Christie & Manson
Title:
Catalogue of the celebrated collection of pictures, of the very highest class : the property of John Penrice, Esq., and removed from Great Yarmouth : which will be sold by auction, by Messrs. Christie and Manson, at their Great Room, King Street, St. James's Square, on Saturday, July the 6th, 1844.
Published / Created:
[London] : [Messrs. Christie & Manson], [1844]
Physical Description:
7, [1] pages ; 24 cm
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
N8640 .N6+ v. 12a no.21 Oversize
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Artists included in the sale are Bassano, Coello, Canaletti, Van Os, Titian, Wouvermans, Teniers, G. Poussin, Claude, Guido, Ostade, and Rubens.

Getty provenance index databases, sale catalog Br-5643

Lugt, F. Répertoire des catalogues de ventes publiques, 17446

Date of sale: July 6, 1844.

Place of sale: London.

BAC: British Art Center copy is annotated with prices and buyers' names for all lots. Number 21 of 37 auction catalogs bound together. The volume bound in contemporary half calf; with the armorial bookplate of Baron Northwick.
Subject Terms:
Penrice, John, 1818–1892 -- Art collection -- Catalogs. | Art auctions -- England -- London -- Catalogs. | Art -- Private collections -- Great Britain -- Catalogs. | Painting, European -- Catalogs. | Northwick, John Rushout, Baron, 1770–1859 -- Bookplate.
Form/Genre:
Auction catalogs.
Contributors:
Bassano, Jacopo, approximately 1518–1592, artist. | Canaletto, 1697–1768, artist. | Coello, Claudio, 1642–1693, artist. | Dughet, Gaspard, 1615–1675, artist. | Lorrain, Claude, 1600–1682, artist. | Os, Jan van, 1744–1808, artist. | Ostade, Adriaen van, 1610–1685, artist. | Reni, Guido, 1575–1642, artist. | Rubens, Peter Paul, 1577–1640, artist. | Teniers, David, 1610–1690, artist. | Titian, approximately 1488–1576, artist. | Wouwerman, Philips, 1619?-1668, artist.