The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-04-24 00:00:00

IMPORTANT SALE
OF A
MATCHLESS COL LECTION OF PROOF DIPRESSIONS

OF THE FINEST MODERN ENGRAVINGS,
SPLENDID BOOKS,
AND A

SELECTION OF CABINET PICTURES,
MANCHESTER.
vrESSRS. THOS. WINSTANLE
lt and SONS, (of
IVA LIVEPOOI.O most respectfully ann nce to the Admirers
of the Arts, that they have receive( directions to SELL
BY AUCTION, on WEDNESDAY, t d day of May, and the
following day, at Eleven o'clock, a the LARGE Roost, in the
Exchange, Manchester, to which they are removed for the
convenience of Sale,
The Entire, Matchless. and Universally-admired COLLEC-
TION. of the finest PROOF ENGRAVINGS, principally
Framed; a splendid Copy of the Large Plates to Boydell's mag-
nificent SHA.KSPEARE, beautiful Proof Impressions; a unique
Copy of the. First Fotio.Edition of LODGE'S PORTRAITS, proofs;
a fine early Copy of Galignani's First Edition of the'NlOsse
FRANcAIS; in tour Vole ; with several other Popular Works,
enriched with selected Proof Impressions of the Plates, in rich
substantial and elegant Bindings; and
• A Small COLLECTION of very desirable CABINET PIC-
TURES, by favourite Masters.,, The whole being the genuine
Property of, and collected withlnuch taste and judgment, at a
very liberal outlay, by
J. &OLDIE WALKER, ES.Q.,
of Broom House. Levenshulme, near Manchester, who is giv-
ing up his establishment, and has ordered his valuable collection
to be sold without reservation.
This collection will he found to comprise very rare proofs of
the Phaeton, the Solitude, and Cuero, at his Villa, after Wilson;
the Macbeth, after Zinarelli ; the Jocund Peasant, and the Cot-
tage Door, after Desert; all before the letters and in a fine
and perfect state, by Woo/tett. Of the Blind Fidler, the Cut
Finger, the Rat Hunters, the Rabbit on the Wall. the Penny
Wedding, and the Chelsea Pensioners, after Wilkie's ; justly
celebrated Pictures, by Burnet, Raimback, and Stewart; most
of them before the Letters, on India Paper, and in a rare state ;
brilliant unletterml Proofs of'' Nature," after Sir Thomas Law-
rence, by Duo; May Day, after Leslie, by Watt; Lord William'
Russell's Trial, after 'Hayden, by Bromlew; Venice, after
Prout, by Le Keux ; the Dead Soldier and Fisherman, by
Heath; a splendid set of the Cartoons, by Holloway, after Ra-
phael; capital P.oaraits of George IV., by Finden, of the Dukes
of York and Wellington,•Lord Byron, Sir Robert Peel, Sir
Walter Scott, and other eminent Characters, by Doo, Robinson,
&c., choice and selected proofs.
The Transfiguration after Rafjaelle, by Raphael MOrghen ;
The Marriage of the Virgin, by Folo ; La Verge en bas relief,
by Forster, after Da Vinci;. Hagar and Abraham, by IViqc ;
all unlettered and matchless proofs, a brilliant and early
lettered imnression'of the Last Supper, after L. Da`l4riria,lty-
Msighen, with other Engravings of great value anti
interest t 6 the judicious collector. These brilliant and select
specimens of modern engravings are carefully placed, with
broad margins, in tasteful frames of burnished gold, with excel-
lent plate glass.
The UNFRAMF.D PRINTS consist of rich and beautiful un-
lettered proofs of Bolton Abbey—The Maid of Saragossa—The
Red Riding Hood, and the Plower Girl, with portraits of
Napoleon, of Malihran, of Lady Selina Meade, and other
choice .prints, all proofs.
The PAINTINGS comprise a View of the Bay of Naples by
Moonlight, with Vesuvius in eruption, by Wright of Derby; a
Coast Scene and Land Storm, by George Nforland ; the cele-
brated Dray Horses, '
by R. Cooper, R.A.; a Landscape, with
Cattle and a Fair, by T. S. Cooper; " Discussing a Knotty
Point," by Keeling; with other productions of the favourite
pencils of Charles Calvert, Towne, Hogg, Walters, Bradley, Du-
Free, Plowmen, and Burns. The Angel delivering St. Peter,
by Salvator Rosa; Noliine Tangere, by Raphael Mengs ; Christ
led to execution, by Basiano; and other specimens of a deiirable
cabinet size, and in fine preservation.
The whole may be viewed on MONDAY, the 30th April, and
TUESDAY. the Ist May; but to prevent intrusion and injury to
so valuable a property, no person whatever will be admitted to
the View or Sale without a Catalogue, which may be had, price
one shilling, of Messrs. WErstsraNLEr. Paternoster-row, Lon-
don; of Mr. ROBERT WINSTANLEY, Chapel-walks, M anchei-
ter ; and of Messrs. THOS. WINSTANLEY and SONS, Church-
street, Liverpool.