Exhibitions: Museums and Galleries, Art Dealers, Auction Houses

The Valuable and Extensive Collection of Water-Colour Drawings of Dr. John Percy

Messrs. Christie, Manson & Woods

Reference: Christie’s, 17 April 1890

The sale took place over seven days, 15–18 and 22–25 April 1890

Lugt, Catalogues, nos.49001 and 49032

Copy consulted: National Art Library, Victoria and Albert Museum, London

Day 3

  • 502 – ‘Ripon Cathedral; and an engraving (2)’. Bought by ‘Colnaghi’ for £3 5s (TG1667)
  • 503 – ‘Chepstow Castle and the Wye’. Bought by ‘Robinson’ for £4 10s (see TG0156 figure 1)
  • 504 – ‘Sketching Society Series: an Ancient Castle’. Bought by 'Crossman' for £1 1s (TG1502)
  • 505 – ‘Valle Crucis Abbey; &c (9)’. Bought by ‘Dowdeswell’ for £2 2s (TG1273; TG1286; TG1287; TG1457)
  • 506 – ‘Tynemouth; and a mezzotint, by S. W. Reynolds (2)’. Bought by 'Legge' for £10 10s (TG1085)
  • 507 – ‘Farm Buildings’. Bought by ‘Agnew’ for £5 15s
  • 508 – ‘A Woman Sewing – pencil, with autograph of the artist on the back’. Bought by 'Riggall' for 9s (TG0917)
  • 509 – ‘St. George’s Row, Tyburn’. Bought by ‘Colvin’ for the British Museum for £1 16s (TG1745)
  • 510 – ‘Jedburgh Abbey; and the engraving (2)’. Bought by ‘Dowdeswell’ for £5 10s (TG0086) (a note in the Palser Records describes this work as ‘Early’)
  • 511 – ‘Mannorbur Castle, Pembroke’. Bought by ‘Dowdeswell’ for £6 6s (TG0103)
  • 512 – ‘Kilgarren Castle’. Bought by ‘Riggall’ for £5 (TG0090)
  • 513 – ‘Harewood House, Yorks’. Bought by ‘Colnaghi’ for £11
  • 514 – ‘An Extensive Landscape’. Bought by 'Do' for £10 10s (TG1530)
  • 515 – ‘Porte St. Denis’. Bought by 'Do' for £24 3s (TG1891)
  • 516 – ‘A Landscape’. Bought by 'Legge' for £6 10s
  • 517 – ‘The Prison at Southampton’. Bought by ‘Agnew’ for £22 (TG1726)
  • 518 – ‘A River Scene, with a church’. Bought by 'Vokins' for £33 12s (TG1776)
  • 519 – ‘Christ Church Abbey, Hampshire; and the engraving (2)’. Bought by 'Do' for £3 10s (TG0085)
  • 520 – ‘A River Scene, with a bridge and mill’. Bought by ‘Agnew’ for £11
  • 521 – ‘On the Thames, near Blackfriars’. Bought by ‘Colnaghi’ for £72 8s (a note in the Palser Records reads ‘by Henderson’) (see TG1920 figure 1)
  • 522 – ‘Carnarvon Castle, pencil’. Bought by 'Robinson' for £1 4s (TG1314)
  • 523 – ‘Kelso Abbey’. Bought by ‘Colnaghi’ for £40 19s (TG1717)
  • 524 – ‘At Knaresborough’. Bought by ‘Robinson’ for £8 (a note in the Palser Records states that this was a ‘Sunset’ and that it was sold to Dr Percy on 25 June 1885)
  • 525 – ‘Dr Munro’s House, Fetcham’. Bought by ‘Vokins’ for £12 (TG1574)

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