A Library of Books … Also a Beautiful Collection of Framed and Glazed Water Colour Drawings … the Property of a Man of Taste
Mr. Christie
Reference: Christie’s 13 March 1823
The sale took place over two days, 12–13 March 1823
Lugt, Catalogues, no.10407
Copy consulted: Archive of Christie’s, London
Probably consigned by William Blake of Newhouse (unknown dates).
Day 1
- 97 – ‘Girtin’s Etchings’. Bought by ‘Lawford’ for 15s
Day 2
- 23 – ‘a View in Northumberland by Twilight’. Bought by ‘Colnaghi’ for £2 17s
- 44 – ‘1801 – Valle Crucis Abbey, near Llangollen’. Bought by ‘Allnutt’ for £3 17s
- 45 – ‘Carnarvon Castle, the Companion’. Bought by ‘Colnaghi’ for £3 3s
- 46 – ‘A View from Nature’. Bought by ‘Dowbiggin’ for £3 5s
- 54 – ‘Athelston Abbey on the banks of the Tees’. Bought by ‘Allnutt’ for £5 10s
- 70 – ‘Melross Abbey, in Roxburghshire’. Bought by ‘Penney’ for £3 7s
- 73 – ‘View of a Strand at the Entrance of a Town, on the Coast, and a Harbour, with Figures Caulking a Boat’. Bought by ‘Penney’ for £8 5s
- 74 – ‘View of a ruined Abbey in Yorkshire’. Bought by ‘Stuart Wortley’ for £8 8s (struck through in the copy consulted)
- 81 – ‘View of Durham from the River’. Bought by ‘Stuart Wortley’ for £9 9s (TG1078)
Identified Exhibits
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Thomas Girtin
Durham Castle and Cathedral, from below the Weir; Dryburgh Abbey with the Eildon Hills Beyond
Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery