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Auction House | Langford -- from catalog: Langford | Sale Location | Great Piazza Covent-Garden, London, England, UK | Seller(s) | Mead, Richard, Dr. from catalog: Dr. Richard Mead | Lugt Number | 858 | No. of Painting Lots | 211 | Notes | The seller was the physician and antiquarian Dr. Richard Mead, 1673-1754.
From catalogue: "A catalogue of the genuine, entire and curious collection of prints and drawings, (bound and unbound) of the late Doctor Mean; consisint ot the works of the most eminent mastes; and particularly of a matchless collection, containing 95 drawings of exotics, insects, fruit and flowers in water colours, on vellum, by Melian, in 2 vol. by Ehret, all colour'd from nature, and finished to the greatest perfection. WhHich, (by order of the executors) will be sold by auction, by Mr. Langford, at his house in the Great Piazza, Covent-Garden, on Monday the 13th of Jauary 1755, and the thirteen following evenings." | Catalog Location(s) | VAL [photocopy in Provenance Index Sales Files] Annot. with prices BMPL Annot. with prices BML I [photocopy in Provenance Index Sales Files] SM: 1509/1113.(1.); not annot. BML II SM: 272.k.1.(3.) BML III SM: C.28.g.15.(2.) JPGM [annotations used in Sales Contents; photocopy in Provenance Index Sales Files] Annot. with prices KKB Annot. with prices SRP PGE WC | See Also | Sale Contents | | Art Sales Catalogues Online | | Art World in Britain | | Digitized Catalog - GRI | | |
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