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Recueil d'antiquités romaines ou voyage d'Italie : composé de 60 planches : dans lequel on trouve divers vases, autels, trépieds, arabesques et autres sujets gravés d'après les dessins que differens artistes ont fait pendant leur séjour en Italie, lesquels jusqu'à présent n'ont point encore été gravés
Basan, François (1723-1797); Weisbrod, Carl Wilhelm (1743-1806); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Clark, Kenneth (1903-1983); Flaxman, John (1755-1826)
[1770?]
Several plates, for example, 23, 38 are signed by Weisbrod and dated 1769.
The valuable library of books, in Fonthill abbey : A catalogue of the magnificent, rare, and valuable library, (of 20,000 volumes) illustrated, in many instances, with two and three sets of proof and other plates; generally of the most choice editions; selected with great care, and utmost liberality, during the last forty years; also, of the books of prints, galleries of art, curious missals and manuscripts, the Persian and Chinese drawings, &c. &c. &c. Which will be sold by auction, by Mr. Phillips, at the abbey... 1823
Beckford, William (1760-1844); Farquhar, John 19th cent; Phillips, H; Davy, John (1790-1868); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Clark, Kenneth (1903-1983); Houghton, W
1823
The sale was on behalf of John Farquhar, to whom Beckford had sold the house in 1822. The frontispiece includes a view of the house surrounded by the title 'A catalogue of the costly and interesting e...