The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-04-17 00:00:00

IMPORTANT SALE
OF A

MATCHLESS COT, LECTION OF PROOF IMPRESSIONS
OF THE FINEST MODERN ENGRAVINGS,
SPLENDID.BOOKS,
AND A

SELECTION OF CABINET. PICTURES,
MANCHESTER.

ANESSRS. THOS. WINSTANLEY and' SONS, (of
IYJL LIVERPOOL,) most respectfully announce to the Admirers
of the Arts, that they have received directions to SELL
BY AUCTION, on. WEDNESDAY, the 2d day of May, and the
following day, at Eleven o'clock, at the LARGE Room, 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 SHAKSPEA RE, beautiful Proof Impressions ; a unique
Copy of the First Folio Edition of LODGE'S PORTRAITS, proofs;
a fine early Copy of Galignani's First Edition of the Mnstii.
FRANcAIS, in four Vols ; with several other Popular Works,
enriched with Selected Proof Impressions of the Plates, in rich
substantial and elegant Binditigs; and
A Small COLLECTION of very desirable CABINET PIC.'
TURES, by favourite Masters. The whole being the genuine
Property of, and collected with much taste and judgment, at a
very liberal outlay, by
J. GOLDIE WALKER, Ese.,
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 Dusart ; all before the letters and in a fine
and perfect state, by IVoollett. Of the Blind Fidler, the Cut
Finger, the Rat Winters, the Rabbit an 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 unlettered Proofs'of " Nature," after Sir Thomas Law-
rence, by Deo; May Day, after Leslie' by Watt; Lord William
Russell's Trial, after Hayden, by Bromley; 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 Portraits 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 proof's.
The Transfiguration after Rajaelle, by Raphael Morghen ;
The Marriage of the Virgin, by Folo ; La'. Verge en bas relief',
by Forster., after Da Vinci; Hagar and Abraham, by IR/e ;
all unlettered and matchless proof's, a brilliant and early
lettered impression of the Last Supper, after L. Da Vinci, by
Raphael. Moryhen, with other Engravings of great value and
interest to 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 UNFRAMED PRINTS consist of rich and beautiful un-
lettered proofs of Balton Abbev—The Maid of Saragossa—The
Red Riding Hood, and the Plower Girl, with portraits of
Napoleon, of Malibran, 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 Alorland ; the cele-
brated Dray Horses, by R. Cooper, I?.A. ; a Landscape, with
Cattle and a Fair. by 7'. S. Cooper; " Discussing a Knotty
Point," by Keeling; with other productions of the favourite
pencils of Charles Calvert, Towne, Hogg, Walters, Bradley, Du-
Fraz, Plourmen, and Burns. The Angel delivering St. Peter,
by Salvator Rosa; Noli me Tangere, by Raphael Mengs ; Christ
led to execution, by Bassano; and other specimens of a desirable
cabinet size, and in fine preservation..
The whole may be viewed on MONDAY, the 30th April, and
TUESDAY. the let 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. WINSTANLEY. Paternoster-row, Lon-
don; of Mr. ROBERT WINSTANLEY, Chapel-walks, Manches-
ter; and of 'Messrs. THOS. WINSTANLEY and SONS, Church-
street, Liverpool.