| | | | | | | | Document | Sale Catalog Br-1082 | |
| Auction House | Phillips (Harry) -- from catalog: Mr. H. Phillips | | Sale Location | No.73 New Bond St., London, England, UK | | Seller(s) | from catalog: General Sir James Craig
from auctioneer's copy: Geo. Watson; Wilkie; Forster; etc. | | Lugt Number | 8322 | | No. of Painting Lots | 119 | | Notes | The title page of the catalogue indicates that the owner of the pictures and a number of drawings was Gen. Sir James Henry Craig (1748-1812) who had recently died. In fact, Craig's paintings had been put up for sale by his heir, Ld. Harrington, at Christie's on Apr.18, 1812 (no.973) and according to the auctioneer's (WCL) catalogue of the present sale, just two of the lots -- nos.77-78 -- had come from him. The remainder belonged to a variety of private collectors and dealers, making this one of the more blatant examples of the misuse of a consigner's name. (A note at the end of the catalogue also announces a sale of Craig's wines, to be sold the next day.) The sale apparently contained works of more than average interest, so far as one can judge from the prices, but approximately half of the lots, including everything that exceeded £30, were bought in. (B. Fredericksen) | | Catalog Location(s) | WCL [annotations used in Sales Contents; photocopy in Provenance Index Sales Files] Auctioneer's copy, annot. with all sellers, buyers and prices.
OGA [annotations used in Sales Contents; photocopy in Provenance Index Sales Files] Annot. with some buyers and all prices, indicating which lots were sold and which bought in. The annotator was Geo. Watson who was working from a marked set of catalogues deposited by the auctioneers in the Excise Office.
RKDH [photocopy in Provenance Index Sales Files] Annot. by the dealer John Smith with most prices.
VAL I Annot. in pencil by the dealer Woodin with the prices for lots 1-53.
VAL II [photocopy in Provenance Index Sales Files] Annot. in pencil with a few prices. | | Photocopies | NGL, FLNY and CIL (all of VAL II) and BIB (of WCL) | | See Also | Sale Contents | | | Art Sales Catalogues Online | | | Digitized Catalog - Frick | | | |
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