Christie's Auction Room
date: label: Date
content: February 1, 1808
name: label: Designer
content: Augustus Charles Pugin, French, active Great Britain, ca. 1762–1832
label: Designer
content: Thomas Rowlandson, British, 1756–1827
label: Print Maker
content: John Bluck, British, 1791–1832
label: Publisher
content: Rudolph Ackermann, English, b. Germany, 1764–1834
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Plate showing Christie's Auction Room from the series 'Microcosm of London.' A crowd stands in a high-ceilinged room, with light streaming in through high windows. Paintings in ornate frames are hung salon-style, with vaguely recognizable classical compositions: an Annunciation, an Adoration, a saint, an equestrian scene, a portrait. A reclining Venus is displayed on the auction stand, and before her a lively and colorful crowd is shown, with detailed dress and caricatured features.
place: label: made in
content: London, United Kingdom, Europe
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Hamill and Barker
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1961-105-229
objectType: label: Type
content: architecture, interiors
label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Brush and wash, etching and aquatint on paper