The sale took place over four days, 21–24 April 1828. John Jackson (died 1828) was the father-in-law of the artist’s brother, John Girtin (1773–1821), who married Elizabeth Poulter (unknown dates) in 1803. Jackson's substantial collection of Thomas Girtin's sketches, including the drawings made in Paris for his Picturesque Views as well as the studies for the London panorama, came from John Girtin who presumably appropriated them from his brother's sudio after his death in November 1802.

Lugt, Catalogues, no.11713

Copy consulted: Netherlands Institute for Art History, The Hague, online at Art Sales Catalogues Online

Day 3

• 205 – ‘Landscape and Figures’. Bought by ‘Cluf’ for £1 7s

Day 4

• 320 – ‘One hundred and forty-one Sketches’. Bought by ‘Winstanley’ for £3 10s
• 321 – ‘Twenty-three original pencil Sketches for Views in Paris’. Bought by ‘Tiffin’ for £10 10s (these are the drawings that were acquired by the British Museum in 1868)
• 322 – ‘Six landscapes’. Bought by ‘Colnaghi’ for £1 18s
• 322* – ‘View of Ripon and 1 other’. Bought by ‘Winstanley’ for £1 13s (the asterisk denotes that this was a second work numbered 322)
• 323 – ‘Two Landscapes’. Bought by ‘Winstanley’ for £1 11s
• 324 – ‘View at Widmore, near Bromley, Kent’. Bought by ‘Roberts’ for £7 17s 6d (TG1749)
• 336 – ‘Girtin’s tracings in a folio and ditto with blue leaves’. Bought by ‘Winstanley’ for £1 (presumably the tracings made for Picturesque Views in Paris and which are now in the collection of the Yale Center for British Art, New Haven)

‘Drawings, Framed and Glazed’

• 339 – ‘Three Landscapes, and Mare and Foal’. Bought by ‘Laxton’ for £1
• 342 – ‘Two unfinished Views of London, Blackfriar’s Bridge, &c.’. Bought by ‘Colnaghi’ for £1 13s (this and the following three lots are likely to have comprised Girtin's studies and preparatory drawings for the Eidometropolis, the panorama of London viewed from near Blackfriars Bridge)
• 343 – ‘Two ditto, Somerset House, &c.’. Bought by ‘Colnaghi’ for £1 13s
• 344 – ‘Two ditto, Views on the Thames’. Bought by ‘Colnaghi’ for £2 2s
• 345 – ‘Two ditto, Blackfriars Bridge, &c.’. Bought by ‘Tiffin’ for £1 5s
• 348 – ‘Two pencil drawings’. Bought by ‘Colnaghi’ for £1
• 359 – ‘Landscape with View of an old Castle and Water’. ‘Girtin’ added by the auctioneer in pen and ink. Bought by ‘Colnaghi’ for £5 5s
• 360 – ‘Do – View of a Church’. Bought by ‘Winstanley’ for £2 3s
• 361 – ‘Ruins and Figures’. Bought by ‘Tiffin’ for £3 10s
• 362 – ‘Two small landscapes’. Bought by ‘Knap’ for 14s
• 363 – ‘Landscape, the Wood Gatherer’. Bought by ‘Tiffin’ for £1 10s
• 363* – ‘Landscape’. Bought by ‘Roberts’ for £3 5s (the lot details were added by the auctioneer in pen and ink; the asterisk denotes that this was a second work numbered 363)
• 364 – ‘The River Rylemaith, Northamptonshire’. Bought by ‘Colnaghi’ for £1 10s
• 365 – ‘Ruins of the Savoy Palace, Strand, lately pulled down’. Bought by ‘Chambers’ for £1 10s
• 366 – ‘View in Paris, and a Landscape’. Bought by ‘Davy’ for 6s
• 367 – ‘Interior of an Old Chapel and a Rocky Landscape’ (struck through in the copy consulted); ‘at Eltham Palace’ (added by the auctioneer in pen and ink). Bought by ‘Chambers’ for £2 2s
• 368 – ‘Landscape with Cows and Water’. Bought by ‘Hill’ (the lot details were added by the auctioneer in pen and ink)
• 369 – ‘View in —— with Figures’. Bought by ‘Roberts’ for £8 8s
• 370 – ‘Landscape, Woody Scene and Cattle’. Bought by ‘Colnaghi’ for 12s
• 371 – ‘View at Weymouth, and Sea Shore’. Bought by ‘Knap’ for £1
• 372 – ‘Sea View, and a Landscape at Sun Set’. Sold for 11s
• 373 – ‘View in Devonshire’. Bought by ‘Roberts’ for £5 5s