| | | | | | | | Document | Sale Catalog Br-1281 | |
| Auction House | Christie's -- from catalog: Mr. Christie | | Sale Location | [No.125] Pall Mall, London, England, UK | | Seller(s) | from catalog: A Man of science
from auctioneer's copy: Richard Leigh Spencer; Glover; etc. | | Lugt Number | 8695 | | No. of Painting Lots | 5 | | Notes | The principal consignment was a group of watercolors executed by a variety of contemporary British artists illustrating Pennant's History of London. However, there were also a number of engravings, books, astronomical instruments and a few minor pictures. The title page indicates that everything belonged to an unidentified "man of science," but the auctioneer's (CL) catalogue reveals that a number of different consigners were involved. Most of the paintings belonged to a certain Richard Leigh Spencer, an attorney in Lamb's Conduit St. (B. Fredericksen) | | Catalog Location(s) | CL [annotations used in Sales Contents; photocopy in Provenance Index Sales Files] Auctioneer's copy, annot. with all sellers, most buyers and all prices. There are also some reserves.
OGA [photocopy in Provenance Index Sales Files] Annot. with the prices for the drawings only, 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.
YCNH Not annot. | | Photocopies | RKDH (of CL) | | See Also | Sale Contents | | | Art Sales Catalogues Online | | | |
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