A catalogue of a very large collection of foreigners who have been in England, ranged alphabetically : bomprising almost all those mentioned by Granger and Bromley in their appendixes, with many others not generally known; most of them illustrated with notes and references to Clarendon, Burnet, and other books, &c. giving some account of the parties. Here, also, will be found some of the rarest works of British painters and engravers; because the plates, having been done for foreigners, were sent abroad as soon as finished, and very few impressions have since found their way back into this country. An opportunity like the present will not often occur, to form a numerous collection of eminent statesmen who have figured here in the diplomatic character. To these are added, some very rare private plates, and some curious anonymous prints, all belonging to the British series. Together with sundry parcels of elephant and other paper, of various sizes fit ... pasting prints, as also blank-paper books, for transcribing catalogues, with many articles useful to collectors; which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Ricardson, at his house, no. 31, the corner of Villiers Street, in the Strand, on Monday, April 29, 1799, and the following day, at twelve o'clock ...

By: Richardson, William, active 1778-1815 [auctioneer.]
Contributor(s): Musgrave, William, Sir, 1735-1800 | Smith, William, 1808-1876 [former owner.]
Publisher: [London] : [s.n.], [1799].Description: 14 p. ; 23 cm.Subject(s): Musgrave, William, Sir, 1735-1800 -- Art collections -- Catalogs | Prints -- Catalogs | Portrait prints -- Catalogs | Art auctions -- England -- London -- CatalogsOwnership: PD copy was given by William Smith
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Sc.B.1.19 (7) Prints and drawings : A catalogue of a valuable collection of prints and drawings. The prints consist of the most choice and rare specimens of the works of Bartolozzi, Woollett, Sharpe, Earlom, and Schiavonetti, most of them proofs, etchings, or the most brilliant impressions ... being the reserved part of the collection of Mr. John Woodhouse: which will be sold by auction, by Messrs. King and Lochée, at their great room, 38, King-Street, Covent-Garden, on Wednesday, Jan. 22, 1806, and two following days, at twelve o'clock ... Sc.B.1.19 (8) A catalogue of the reserved part of the capital collection of prints, of John Woodhouse, Esq. : Among them are some of the finest proofs, by Woollett and other masters; also the proofs of Cook's second and third voyage to the South Seas; Sir George Staunton's embassy to China, &c. &c. Which will be sold by auction, by Leigh, Sotheby, and Son, at their house in York-Street, Covent-Garden, on Monday, March 12, 1804 ... Sc.B.1.2 (1) 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.B.1.2 (2) A catalogue of a very large collection of foreigners who have been in England, ranged alphabetically : bomprising almost all those mentioned by Granger and Bromley in their appendixes, with many others not generally known; most of them illustrated with notes and references to Clarendon, Burnet, and other books, &c. giving some account of the parties. Here, also, will be found some of the rarest works of British painters and engravers; because the plates, having been done for foreigners, were sent abroad as soon as finished, and very few impressions have since found their way back into this country. An opportunity like the present will not often occur, to form a numerous collection of eminent statesmen who have figured here in the diplomatic character. To these are added, some very rare private plates, and some curious anonymous prints, all belonging to the British series. Together with sundry parcels of elephant and other paper, of various sizes fit ... pasting prints, as also blank-paper books, for transcribing catalogues, with many articles useful to collectors; which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Ricardson, at his house, no. 31, the corner of Villiers Street, in the Strand, on Monday, April 29, 1799, and the following day, at twelve o'clock ... Sc.B.1.2 (3) British portraits : A catalogue of a genuine and extensive collection of English portraits, consisting of the royal families, peers, gentry, clergy, lawyers, military, literary, artists, actors, writing-masters, musicians, female sex, phenomena, convicts, monsters, &c. from Egbert the Great to the present time; comprising the choicest works of Delaram, Elstrack, Faithorne, Hollar, Loggan, Lumley, the Pass's, Place, Smith, Rob. White, &c. And nearly the whole that have been engraved after Sir Joshua Reynolds, and other modern artists, most of them proofs, many private plates, and unique prints, not to be found in any other collection, with biographical and genealogical remarks. By an eminent collector, during the last forty years. The collection is in perfect preservation, and the choicest impressions, with sixty solander port-folios, uniformly lettered, and print-presses, with sliding shelves; which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Ricardson, at his house, no. 31, the corner of Villiers Street, in the Strand. In two parts, the first, on Monday, Feb. 3, and the seventeen following days; the second part, on March 3, and the twelve following days, at twelve o'clock ... Sc.B.1.20 Catalogue of a choice collection of capital prints, the pure and genuine works of the most celebrated masters of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, of a brilliancy of impression, and in a state of preservation very rarely to be seen : abounding in chef d'oeuvres, and containing numerous articles of taste, both etchings and engravings, never hitherto brought into this country ... which will be sold by auction, under the direction of Mr. T. Philipe, at his rooms, in Warwick Street, Golden Square (adjoining the chapel,) on Monday, March 16, 1801, and eleven following days, at twelve o'clock ... Sc.B.1.21 (1) Catalogue of a very curious collection of prints and portraits, many of which are very scarce, and by the following masters : Rembrandt, Della Bella, Callot, Bartolozzi, Hogarth, Audran, Woollett, Hollar, Edelinck, Smith, Passe, Loggan, Faithorne, &c. &c. Which will be sold by auction, by Mr. W. Stewart, at his auction-room, (194,) opposite York House, Piccadilly, on Monday, the 6th of April, 1801, and two following days, beginning each day exactly at one o'clock ...

PD copy is annotated with prices.

PD copy has a note on the title-page attributing the collection to Sir William Musgrave.

ESTC, T181893

PD copy was given by William Smith.