Exhibitions: Museums and Galleries, Art Dealers, Auction Houses

Highly Important English Drawings & Watercolours Sold by Order of the Executors of the Late N. D. Newall Esq.

Christie, Manson & Woods Ltd.

Reference: Christie’s, 13 December 1979

The sale took place over two days, 13–14 December 1979

Copy consulted: Library of the Paul Mellon Centre, London

Day 1

Thomas Girtin

  • 39 – ‘Newcastle’. Bought by ‘Ivy’ for £7,000 (TG1081)
  • 40 – ‘Morpeth Bridge’. Sold for £70,000 (TG1709)
  • 41 – ‘View of the Louvre and Bridge of the Thuilleries from Pont Neuf, soft ground etching, pencil and watercolour’. Sold for £2,200 (plate two of Picturesque Views in Paris) (TG1864a)
  • 42 – ‘A View of Pont Neuf, The Mint, etc, soft ground etching and watercolour on two sheets’. Bought by ‘Colnaghi’ for £2,800 (plate eight of Picturesque Views in Paris) (TG1874a)
  • 43 – ‘View of the City with the Louvre, etc., taken from Pont Marie, soft ground etching and watercolour’. Sold for £1,300 (plate three of Picturesque Views in Paris) (see comparative image TG1865b)
  • 44 – ‘View of Pont St. Michel taken from Pont Neuf, soft ground etching and brown wash’. Sold for £600 (plate four of Picturesque Views in Paris) (TG1866b)
  • 45 – ‘A General View of Paris Taken from Chaillot; and View of Pont Neuf, part of the Louvre, Notre Dame and the College of Four Nations, soft ground etching and brown wash, the first also with ochre wash’. Sold for £2,000 (plates five and seven of Picturesque Views in Paris) (TG1872a and TG1868a figure 1)
  • 46 – ‘View of Pont de La Tournelle and Notre Dame taken from the Arsenal; and View of the Village of Chaillot, etc., taken from Pont de la Concorde, soft ground etching, brown and ochre wash, the second with pencil’. Sold for £1,400 (plates eleven and seventeen of Picturesque Views in Paris) (see TG1878a figure 1 and TG1885a)
  • 47 – ‘A Selection of Twenty of the Most Picturesque Views in Paris and its Environs’. Sold for £900

Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775–1851)

  • 77 – ‘In the County of Sargans, pencil and grey wash’, 9 1/2 × 14 3/4 in (24.1 × 37.5 cm). Sold for £1,500
  • 78 – ‘Naples’. Sold for £1,400 (TG1359)

Identified Exhibits