The sale took place over two days, 6–7 May 1808

Lugt, Catalogues, no.7394

Copy consulted: Archive of Christie’s, London

6 May 1808

Consigned by ‘Simpson’

• 113 – ‘A Landscape, View on a Lake, with the Rainbow; capital’. Sold for £6 5s
• 114 – ‘A View of the North Gate, Conway: capital’. Sold for £4

7 May 1808

The catalogue notes that the works were consigned by Dr Thomas Monro (1759–1833).

‘Drawings’

• 14 – ‘Various, Turner, &c.’
• 23* – ‘Two’ by ‘Laporte and Girtin’. Bought by 'Day' for 14s (the asterisk denotes that this was a second work numbered 23)

‘Framed and Glazed’

'Girtin'

• 64 – ‘A View in Devonshire’. Sold for £3 13s 6d
• 73 – ‘A View from Nature in Richmond Park’. Bought by 'Jackson' for £3 3s

‘W. Turner’ (Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851)

• 49 – ‘Two, ruins’. Sold for 8s
• 56 – 'Two, a Waterfall, Turner, &c. Town Scene, Dayes'. Bought by 'Zannetti' for £1 4s
• 60 – ‘Two Frames, with ten coloured Drawings on Cards’. Bought by 'Zannetti' for £2 2s
• 61 – ‘Ditto’. Sold for £2 7s
• 65 – 'Two Frames, with five Drawings in Pencil, and five, Turner, Sandby, &c.'. Bought by 'Zannetti' for £1 1s
• 68 – ‘The Fall of the Richenback, in Switzerland’. Sold for £1 11s 6d
• 69 – ‘A View in Italy’. Unsold at a reserve of £2
• 74 – ‘Corf Castle, Isle of Purbeck’. Bought by 'Baker' for 18s
• 74* – ‘A Moonlight’. Bought by 'Cutter' for £1 4s (the asterisk denotes that this was a second work numbered 74)
• 78 – ‘A Sea Piece, capital’. Sold for £4 14s 6d
• 79 – ‘A View at Chiavenna in Switzerland’. Sold for £1 5s
• 84 – ‘A Wood Scene with Figures, capital’. Unsold at a reserve of £15 4s 6d
• 87 – ‘Grand Mountainous Scene, a composition’. Unsold at a reserve of £20 9s 6d

‘Couzins’ (John Robert Cozens (1752–97))

• 89 – ‘Lake of Albano’. Bought by ‘Ld Hampsted’ for £3 3s