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, 14 December 1979

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

Copy consulted: Library of the Paul Mellon Centre, London

Day 2

Thomas Girtin

  • 145 – ‘Jedburgh Abbey’. Sold for £100 (TG0188)

‘After Thomas Girtin’

  • 146 – ‘View of the Louvre and Bridge of the Thuilleries taken from Pont Neuf, pencil and watercolour’. Bought by Andrew Wyld for £60 (later sold as a ‘copy’ attributed to John Girtin (1773–1821))

William Alexander (1767–1816)

  • 85 – ‘Egham’. Sold for £400 (TG0929)

Various Artists

  • 249 – ‘An Album of Drawings and Watercolours, by or attributed to W. Alexander, C. P. Burney, R. Burney, G. Cattermole, G. B. Cipriani, R. Cooper, D. Cox, S. P. Denning, G. Dodgson, H. Edridge, W. Evans, T. Girtin, T. S. Good, S. H. Grimm, J. D. Harding, T. Hearne, J. Hoppner, R. Hills, W. H. Hunt, C. Keene, Sir E. H. Landseer, W. Lock, Sir P. Maitland, F. Mercer, P. S. Munn, H. O’Neill, Sir R. Ker Porter, W. H. Pyne, P. Sandby, C. Stanfield, T. Stothard, The Rev. W. Twopenny, E. V. Utterson, J. Varley and C. B. Young 77 loose or laid down in the album, 13 × 10 3/4in. overall’. Sold for £3,500 (TG0185, TG0195)

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