A catalogue of the first part of the valuable collection of original drawings by distinguished modern artists, the property of the late Sir Thomas Lawrence ...
Subtitle: comprising admirable specimens by Gainsborough, Wilson, the celebrated Brown of Rome, Cipriani, Wheatley, Fuseli, Flaxman, Stothard, Cosway, William Locke ... and others, also, by Sir Thomas Lawrence, and fine chalk drawings from antique statues in the Louvre, by the most eminent French artists, from which the plates in the Musée Napoleon were engraved : which (by order of the executor) will be sold by auction, by Mr. Christie, at his great room, King Street, St. James's Square, on Thursday and Friday, the 20th and 21st of May, 1830 ...
Contributors: Lawrence, Thomas, Sir, 1769-1830
Publisher: Catalogues had at Mr. Christie's office
Published: 1830
Place of publication: London]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 18
Subjects: European Drawing; Art collections; Catalogs; English Drawing; Drawing; Private collections
Notes: Lugt, 12380.

Date of sale: May 20-21, 1830.

Place of sale: London.

Libary's copy annotated with prices and names in brown ink on interleaved, ruled sheets; includes running totals and tally on final added leaf in same hand.

Library's copy bound with: Christie, James. A catalogue of the first part of the very valuable and extensive collection of engravings in the portfolio of Sir Thomas Lawrence ... [London] : Mr. Christie's office, [1830] (ID: 85-P4203). This is the third catalog bound in a volume of 9 catalogs. Pictorial ex libris stamp (giraffe) of "A. Keightley" (likely Archibald Keightley, Lawrence's executor) appears on verso of fifth front flyleaf, directly preceding the first item in the volume.

Library also has photocopy; annotated.