Unique collection of drawings & prints : A catalogue of all the great and valuable collection of ancient drawings, scarce prints, and books of prints, which belonged to Sir Joshua Reynolds, deceased, late President of the Royal Academy; consisting of the works of Michael Angelo, Raphael, Correggio, Titian, Liornardo da Vinci ... the Three Caracci, Nicolo Poussin, Rubens, Vandyke, Rembrandt, with many other great masters, too numerous to mention: also, a few bronzes, plaister figures; port folios and folios of plain paper bound in vellum; cabinets, and a small Library of books, treating of the arts. Which (by order of the executors) will be sold by auction by Mr. H. Phillips, at his great room, 67, New Bond Street, on Monday, March 5, 1798, and seventeen successive days, (Sundays and fast day excepted), precisely at half past one o'clock ...

By: Phillips, H, -1840 [auctioneer.]
Contributor(s): Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723-1792 | Smith, William, 1808-1876 [former owner.]
Publisher: [London : s.n., 1798].Description: 91 p. ; 23 cm.Subject(s): Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723-1792 -- Art collections -- Catalogs | Prints -- Catalogs | Drawing -- Catalogs | Art auctions -- England -- London -- CatalogsOwnership: PD copy was given by William Smith
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Sc.A.1.41 (19) Rare English portraits, prints, books of prints, &c. : A catalogue of a valuable collection of prints, comprising some exceeding fine and scarce English portraits. Among them are some of the choicest works of Faithorne, Delaram, Wierx, Hollar, the Pass's, Smith, &c. Several foreign portraits, by Blooteling, Vorsterman, Drevet, Nanteuil, &c. ... Which will be sold by auction, by Mr. King, at his great room, King-Street, Covent-Garden, on Tuesday, July 29, 1800, and following day, at twelve o'clock ... Sc.A.1.41 (2) A catalogue of the genuine duplicates of an eminent collector of British portraits : Among them are many fine and scarce prints, by Hollar, Faithhorne, Cross, Pass, Vaughan, Smith, Mc. Ardell, Masson, &c. After Van Dyck, Lely, Hogarth, Reynolds, and other painters. Including a great number of foreign portraits, many of which belong to the British series, the whole arranged alphabetically, to assist the purchasers in finding more readily the prints they may want, and very convenient for those who may wish to illustrate Morreri's, or any other biographical dictionaries, which, with many capital portfolios, superbly bound in morocco, will be sold by auction, by Mr. King, at his house, No. 6, Tavistock-Row, Covent-Garden, on Thursday, February 22, 1798, and two following days, at twelve o'clock ... Sc.A.1.41 (20) Portraits, drawings, books of prints, copper-plates, &c. : a catalogue of a choice collection of English portraits, by Faithorne, Hollar, Gaywood, Smith, &c. Portaits from Van Dyck, Vanden Enden impressions. Capital prints, from Rubens, Sandby, &c. ... Which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Richardson, at his house, no. 31, the corner of Villiers' Street, in the Strand, on Thursday, December 4, 1800, and the two following days, at twelve o'clock ... Sc.A.1.41 (3) Unique collection of drawings & prints : A catalogue of all the great and valuable collection of ancient drawings, scarce prints, and books of prints, which belonged to Sir Joshua Reynolds, deceased, late President of the Royal Academy; consisting of the works of Michael Angelo, Raphael, Correggio, Titian, Liornardo da Vinci ... the Three Caracci, Nicolo Poussin, Rubens, Vandyke, Rembrandt, with many other great masters, too numerous to mention: also, a few bronzes, plaister figures; port folios and folios of plain paper bound in vellum; cabinets, and a small Library of books, treating of the arts. Which (by order of the executors) will be sold by auction by Mr. H. Phillips, at his great room, 67, New Bond Street, on Monday, March 5, 1798, and seventeen successive days, (Sundays and fast day excepted), precisely at half past one o'clock ... Sc.A.1.41 (4) A catalogue of the duplicate prints, and the whole collection of elegant plaister figures, terra cota models, sharp casts from the finest pieces of antiquity, &c. in whole-length figures, heads, legs, arms, hands, &c. of Sir Joshua Reynolds, deceased : which will be sold by auction, (by order of the executors,) by Mr. Greenwood, at his room in Leicester-Square, on Monday the 16th of April, 1792, and following days, at twelve o'clock ... Sc.A.1.41 (5) A catalogue of portraits, fancy pictures, studies and sketches, by the late Sir Joshua Reynolds : consisting of family pieces, whole and half lengths, and three quarter size pictures of some of the most distinguished personages in the kingdom; several studies, and sketches for his historical pictures, and many celebrated fancy subjects ... which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Greenwood, by order of the excecutors, at the Great Room, Saville-Row, on Thursday, 14th April, and two following days, at 12 o'clock. Sc.A.1.41 (6) Catalogue of a capital collection of prints and drawings, by the most esteemed masters, antient and modern, from the time of Israel van Meek and Martin Schoen inclusive, to the present; comprehending considerable works of Rubens, Vandyck, Jordaens, Hollar, Rembrandt, Berchem, Visscher, proofs by Woollett, including his scarcer works;--a set of Boydell's Shakespear, large and small, with the book--first impressions; and many other interesting particulars: which will be sold by auction under the direction of Mr. Thomas Philipe, at his rooms, in Warwick Street, Golden Square, (adjoining the chapel,) on Tuesday, the 18th of December, 1798, and four following days, at twelve o'clock ...

PD copy is partly annotated in pencil with prices.

ESTC, T181785

PD copy was given by William Smith.