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 : 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.

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, ; Date of sale: Feb. 5-7,1801. ; Place of sale: London. ; Mode of access: Internet. ; 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). ; Library's cop... Mehr ...