May 27, 2004 - Sale 2008

Sale 2008 - Lot 83

Price Realized: $ 546
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 250 - $ 350
(ENGRAVED GEMS.) Burch, Edward. A Catalgoue of One Hundred Proofs from Gems, Engraved in England . . . for Medals and Gems. xiv, 30 pages. 4to, marbled wrappers later rebacked in linen; contents becoming loose, errata sheet tipped in, page 21 erroneously numbered 12. London: Privately printed, 1795

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Descriptions of antique gems in the cabinets of Charles Townley, Lord Eliot, Prince Poniatowski, Prince Czartorinski, The Duke of Marlborough, George Garrick, Henry Jennings, Robert Helen, among others. Burch was the first and only gem engraver to be elected a Royal Academician, in 1771. He remained so until the election of his pupil, Nathaniel Marchant, in 1809. Not in Sinkankas.