Apr 19, 2007 - Sale 2110

Sale 2110 - Lot 68

Price Realized: $ 5,280
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
LAWRENCE, THOMAS, Sir. Bound volume containing 7 posthumous auction catalogues of paintings, drawings, books, casts, etc., from Lawrence's collection. interleaved, with prices and buyers entered throughout, except for of the final day of the library sale. 4to, contemporary 1/2 calf gilt, rebacked retaining original backstrip. With the monogram stamp of the miniature painter and engraver Moses Haughton the Younger (1773-1849; Lugt 1874). (EHLS) London, 1830-31

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The art collection of the eminent portraitist Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769-1830) was one of the finest ever assembled by an individual; for details of its dispersion see Lugt, pages 454-56.
A Catalogue of the First Part of the Very Valuable and Extensive Collection of Engravings. 40 pages. 10-14 May 1830 A Catalogue of the Valuable Collection of Paintings, by Ancient and Modern Masters. 10 pages. 15 May 1830 A Catalogue of the First Part of the Valuable Collection of Original Drawings, by Distinguished Modern Artists. 18 pages. 20-21 May 1830 A Catalogue of the Remaining Part of the Valuable Collection of Modern Drawings [etc.]. 28 [i. e., 27] pages, trimmed and inlaid to size. 17-19 June 1830 Catalogue of the Library of the Late Sir Thomas Lawrence. 36 pages. 25-28 June 1830 A Catalogue of a Valuable Assemblage of Casts [etc.]. 11 pages. 6 July 1830 A Catalogue of the Remaining Pictures and Unfinished Sketches of Sir Thomas Lawrence, P.R.A., Deceased. 8 pages. 18 June 1831.
Bound at the end is a contemporary manuscript of 15 leaves, written in a neat copperplate hand on recto only: Catalogue of a Collection of Architectural and other Casts, late the Property of Sir Thomas Lawrence deceased.