Jun 17, 2010 - Sale 2217

Sale 2217 - Lot 534

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Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 2,000
SCARCE AND IMPORTANT AMERICAN ART COLLECTION (LAMBERT COLLECTION.) A Selection of Masterpieces from the Collection of Catholina Lambert, Belle-Vista Castle, Paterson, N. J. Title-page and 109 mounted photogravures on India paper. Folio, contemporary leather binding, defective; hinges reinforced; preliminaries soiled, most plates clean. Np, circa 1911
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rare edition of this private collection, inscribed and signed by lambert on title-page to Adolph Rausch, dated 23 April 1911. Later Inscribed by Rausch to Isabel Whitney (the artist, socialite, and Salmagundi Club member) in 1935 (and in whose family it has remained). Catholina Lambert, the highly successful 19th century textile merchant, built Lambert Castle known as "Belle-Vista" on Garrett Mountain in Paterson, New Jersey and assembled in its halls one of the world's finest art collections. His business began to decline around the turn of the 20th century and in 1916, five years after this work was published, the masterworks of painting and sculpture were sold at auction at the Plaza Hotel by The American Art Association. It is that auction catalogue, printed in a limited edition of 600 copies, that is most often found on the market. OCLC sites only one copy of this work held at the Getty Research Institute.