Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Christie & Manson
Title:
Catalogue of the very celebrated Montcalm Gallery of Pictures, from Montpellier : which will be sold by auction, by Messrs. Christie and Manson, at their Great Room, 8, King Street, St. James's Square, on Friday, May 4, 1849, and following day, at one o'clock precisely.
Published / Created:
[London] : Printed by W. Clowes and Sons, [1849]
Physical Description:
31, [1] pages ; 24 cm
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
N8640 .N6+ v. 12b no.17 Oversize
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Rare Books and Manuscripts
N8640 .N4 v. 1 no. 17
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Rare Books and Manuscripts
N8640 .N4 v. 1 no.17a
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Lugt identifies the seller as Louis Pierre Marie Paulin Hippolyte Décadon, Marquis de Montcalm.

Getty provenance index databases, sale catalog Br-5794

Lugt, F. Répertoire des catalogues de ventes publiques, 19354

Date of sale: May 4-5, 1849.

Place of sale: London.

BAC: British Art Center copy N8640.N6+ v. 12b no.17 is annotated in ink with sale prices and buyers' names for all lots. Number 17 of 42 auction catalogs bound together. The volume bound in contemporary half calf, with binder's ticket of T. Armstrong (the Strand); with the armorial bookplate of Baron Northwick.

BAC: British Art Center copy N8640 .N4 v. 1 no. 17 is annotated in ink with sale prices and buyers' names for all lots. Number 17 of 34 auction catalogs bound together. The volume bound in contemporary quarter roan; with the armorial bookplates of the Earl of Normanton and Rupert Gunnis; with a manuscript index on the volume's catalogs on the front endpapers. Extra-illustrated with newspaper clipping announcing auction.

BAC: British Art Center copy N8640 .N4 v. 1 no. 17a is not annotated. Number 17a of 34 auction catalogs bound together. The volume bound in contemporary quarter roan; with the armorial bookplates of the Earl of Normanton and Rupert Gunnis; with a manuscript index on the volume's catalogs on the front endpapers. Includes newspaper clipping announcing auction.
Subject Terms:
Montcalm de Saint-Véran, Louis-Pierre-Marie, marquis de, 1775–1857 Art collection -- Catalogs. | Art auctions -- England -- London -- Catalogs. | Art -- Private collections -- Great Britain -- Catalogs. | Painting, European -- Catalogs. | Northwick, John Rushout, Baron, 1770–1859 -- Bookplate. | Agar, James Charles Herbert Welbore Ellis, Earl of Normanton, 1818–1896 -- Bookplate. | Gunnis, Rupert -- Bookplate.
Form/Genre:
Auction catalogs.
Contributors:
William Clowes and Sons, printer.