Accession number
PML 145850.121
Published
[London : s.n., 1710]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Title devised by cataloger.
Woodcut issued as a frontispiece illustration for An auction of state pictures; containing a ... collection of original low church faces: drawn exactly to the life by a High Church Limner (London : s.n., 1710).
Mounted as item 121 into an album of collected prints, broadsides, drawings, and miscellaneous single sheet items, assembled by former owner Joseph Ames and entitled "Emblematical and satirical prints on persons and professions" (PML 145850).
Woodcut issued as a frontispiece illustration for An auction of state pictures; containing a ... collection of original low church faces: drawn exactly to the life by a High Church Limner (London : s.n., 1710).
Mounted as item 121 into an album of collected prints, broadsides, drawings, and miscellaneous single sheet items, assembled by former owner Joseph Ames and entitled "Emblematical and satirical prints on persons and professions" (PML 145850).
Description
1 print : woodcut ; image: 159 x 106 mm; sheet: 165 x 112 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows an art auction in progress, with the auctioneer at center in front of a wall hung with paintings, with his gavel in one hand and a painting in the other; he is flanked by two assistants who are removing pictures from the wall and handing them down to buyers. A crowd is shown on the auction house floor below.
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