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A Valuable Assemblage of Modern Pictures and Water-colour Drawings … Also, a Small Collection of Water-Colour Drawings, the Property of Colonel S. Long

Messrs. Christie, Manson & Woods

Reference: Christie’s, 10 March 1882

Lugt, Catalogues, no.41759

Copies consulted: Netherlands Institute for Art History, The Hague, online at Art Sales Catalogues Online; Library of the Paul Mellon Centre, London

Consigned by anonymous collectors

Thomas Girtin

  • 18 – ‘The Albion Mill on Fire; &c – 2’. Bought by ‘Palser’ for £1 10s (TG0105)

Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775–1851)

  • 26 – ‘Lake Como’. Bought by ‘Richardson’ for £18
  • 27 – ‘Temple at Baie’. Bought by ‘Richardson’ for £18

‘Property of Colonel S. Long’

‘Girtin – Framed’

  • 67 – ‘A Ruined Castle’. Bought by ‘Palser’ for 14 guineas (TG1717)
  • 68 – ‘A Ruined Abbey’. Bought by ‘Palser’ for £31 10s

‘A Different Property’

Thomas Girtin

  • 73 – ‘A river scene’

Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775–1851)

  • 74 – ‘A Mountain Scene’
  • 75 – ‘Langdale Pikes’. Bought by ‘Agnew’ (sold by them as by John Robert Cozens (1752–97))
  • 77 – ‘Pozzuoli’. Bought by ‘Richardson’ for £1 10s
  • 78 – ‘A View in Switzerland’. Bought by ‘Richardson’ for £1 10s

Identified Exhibits