Title: Mr. George Robins, has the pleasure most respectfully to announce to the nobility, lovers of the fine arts, and those who delight in objects of interest, and indeed to the public generally, that having sold "Plasnewydd," he is instructed by the executors of the Lady Eleanor Butler, and Miss Ponsonby, to offer for unreserved competition, at the domicile, so long hallowed as the abode of friendship, on Monday, the 13th day of August, 1832, and many succeeding days, at eleven for [that is, or?] twelve o'clock precisely, on each day, the following interesting and valuable property, appertaining to the residence, and which for extent, variety and novelty, forms a most brilliant assemblage, certainly unexample in the annals of auctions, it having been congregated by those highly talented ladies, the fair "Mistresses of Plasnewydd," during a series of 50 years, aided by their joint taste, and at considerable expense ...
Subjects: Estate, Catalogs, Private libraries, Art, Private collections, House furnishings
Places: Wales, Llangollen
People: Eleanor Butler Lady (1739-1829), Sarah Ponsonby (1755-1831), George Henry Robins (1777-1847)