May be viewed four days prior to the sale. Catalogues are now ready, and will be forwarded on application.
The beautiful Collection of Modern Drawings of a distinguished Amateur.
MESSRS. S. LEIGH SOTHEBY and Co., Auctioneers of Literary Property and Works illustrative of the Fine Arts, will SELL by AUCTION, at their House, Wellington Street, Strand, on THURSDAY, May 9, a small but very choice Collection of DRAWINGS, chiefly in Water Colours, by the most eminent modern Artists, and containing exquisite specimens of the works of
Gainsborough
J.W.M. Turner, R.A.
Sir D. Wilkie, R.A.
Wilson
C. Stanfield, R.A.
Sir A. Callcott, R.A.
Watteau
Cattermole
De Wint
Zuccherelli
D. Cox
Van Os
Sir T. Lawrence
Chambers
Shelfhout
Bonnington
Muller
Hildebrandt
Stothard
and many others of equal celebrity. They are the property of the same distinguished amateur by whom the superb collection of prints advertised above was formed, and have been selected with the most perfect taste and judgment.
May be viewed four days prior to the sale. Catalogues are now ready, and will be forwarded on application.
Six Days' Sale of the Third Portion of the valuable Stock of Prints of Messrs. W. and G. Smith, the eminent Printsellers of Lisle Street.
MESSRS. S. LEIGH SOTHEBY and Co., Auctioneers of Literary Property and Works illustrative of the Fine Arts, will SELL by AUCTION, at their House, 3. Wellington Street, Strand, on MONDAY, May 13, and five following days, at One precisely each day, the third portion of the important and valuable Stock of PRINTS, the property of Messrs. W. and G. Smith, the long-established, well-known, and eminent Printsellers, of Lisle Street, Leicester Square, who have retired from business; comprising some of the works of the most eminent Engravers of the early Italian, German, Dutch, Flemish, French, and English Schools, including the matchless assemblage of the Works of the Masters of the School of Fontainbleau, formerly in Count Fries' collection; Engravers' Proofs of Book Plates, &c., generally of the very highest quality, both as to impression and condition; together with a very few fine Drawings by ancient and modern masters.