A catalogue of the well known valuable and truly capital collection of pictures, forming an assemblage of the great and most admired masters of the Italian, French, Flemish, and Dutch schools
Subtitle: particularly Raphael, Titian, Giorgione, Carravagio, Spagniolet, Sal. Rosa, Han. Carrache, Dominichino, Murillo, And. Sacchi, Carlo Dolci, Albano, Nic. Poussin, Claude, Le Suere, Le Nain, Rubens, Vandyck, Teniers, Rembrandt, Wouvermans, Chef V.D. Werff, Cuyp, Jan Steen, &c. : also, a most capital Madona, with the Bambino, Raphael : the chess-players, by Titian ; Venus and Adonis, a chef d'œuvre, N. Poussin : a sea port, Claude : the interment of a cardinal, by Van Eyke, a picture of great antiquity : Jason with the dragon, by Sal. Rosa, a most extraordinary and capital performance : a selection of original portraits of the most celebrated artists and authors ; miniatures, bronzes of the first class, &c. &c. formed by the late Earl of Besborough, deceased, not less distinguished for his exquisite taste, than for his liberality in collecting : which will be sold by auction by Mr. Christie at his Great Room, Pall Mall, on Thursday, February 5, 1801, and two following days, at twelve o'clock
Contributors: Bessborough, William Ponsonby, ǂc Earl of, ǂd 1704-1793
Publisher: [J. Christie]
Published: 1801
Place of publication: [London]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 21
Notes: Getty Research Institute's copy 3 in later state with title page corrections. "Han. Carrache" is corrected to "Ann: Carracci"; "Le Suere" is corrected to "Le Sueur"

Lugt, F. Répertoire des catalogues de ventes publiques, 6190

Place of sale: London.

Date of sale: Feb. 5-7,1801.

Library's copy 1 is annotated with prices.

Library's copy 2 is annotated with prices and some names in brown ink. Copy 2 is the sixth item bound with: Catalogue of the genuine, capital, and valuable collection of pictures, by the most esteemed masters of the Italian, French, Flemish, and Dutch schools ... / by Mr. Christie. [London] : Mr. Christie, [1796] (85-P5657).

Library's copy 3 is annotated for the third day's sale with a few notes, some names and prices in brown ink; a few notes in pencil throughout. Copy 3 is the eighteenth item bound in a volume of 33 auction and sale catalogs with call no.: 1792 LoEd c.3 Bound-With (2676-620).