The sale took place over five days, 24–30 April 1845. The catalogue notes that the 'celebrated collection of DRAWINGS by ENGLISH MASTERS' owned by Henry Rice (1788–1844) was 'particularly rich in the elegant and tasteful WORKS of his friend EDRIDGE'. In fact Henry Edridge (1768–1821) was Rice's nephew and Joseph Farington noted that he 'left his drawings to his nephew not wishing to have them sold' after his death (Farington, Diary, 24 May 1821).

Lugt, Catalogues, no.17749

Copy consulted: Frick Art Reference Library, New York, online at Art Sales Catalogues Online

24 April 1845

Henry Edridge (1768–1821)

'DRAWINGS, BY EDRIDGE – IN PENCIL'

• 9-120 – Several hundred sketches

Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775–1851)

• 128 – ‘A vessel in Dover harbour’
• 129 – ‘Fishing boats at Dover – a pair’
• 130 – ‘A brig on shore’
• 131 – ‘Boats in the upper harbour at Dover’
• 132 – ‘Ditto’
• 133 – ‘Dover Bay, with vessels’
• 134 – ‘Boats – a pair – upright’
• 135 – ‘Vessels’
• 168 – ‘Vessels in Dover harbour – a pair’

25 April 1845

'DRAWINGS, BY EDRIDGE – IN PENCIL'

• 215-342 – Several hundred sketches

'DRAWINGS, IN PENCIL, MADE IN FRANCE IN 1819'

• 343–68

'IN WATER COLOURS'

Thomas Girtin

• 432 – ‘Ship building’

‘IN PENCIL’

• 452 – ‘A water-mill’
• 453 – ‘Three small sketches’
• 454 – ‘York, &c 3’
• 455 – ‘Salisbury, &c. 4’
• 456 – ‘Slight sketches 3’

'IN WATER COLOURS'

Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775–1851)

• 414 – ‘A panoramic view of London from the Thames’
• 428 – ‘View of Dover’
• 431 – ‘A coast scene – blue, and Indian ink’
• 434 – ‘A pair of harbour scenes’
• 436 – ‘Dover harbour’
• 442 – ‘Shakespeare’s Cliff’

'DRAWINGS, BY EDRIDGE, IN WATER-COLOURS'

• 459-90

28 April 1845

'DRAWINGS, IN PENCIL, BY EDRIDGE' (and 'In Chalks and 'On Grey Paper')

• 491-611

Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775–1851)

• 629 – ‘A boat on the shore at Dover’

29 April 1845

'DRAWINGS, BY EDRIDGE, IN WATER COLOURS'

• 667-702

'PORTRAITS BY EDRIDGE'

• 705 – 'Hearne sketching'

Thomas Girtin

• 794 – ‘Girtin's Paris – etchings’

30 April 1845

Thomas Girtin

• 812 – ‘A cottage among trees on a road side’
• 865 – ‘A BRIDGE AND BUILDINGS – very fine’