Catalogue of the final portion of the collection of important pictures by old masters, chiefly of the Dutch, Flemish, French, Spanish and British schools, the property of the late Sir George Lindsay Holford ... which will be sold by auction by Messrs. Christie, Manson & Woods ... at their great rooms ... on Thursday, May 17, and Friday, May 18, 1928 ... [Messrs. Christie, Manson & Woods].
Messrs. Christie, Manson & Woods
Category
Books
Date
1928
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3223048
Summary
Bibliographic description
79, [1]p, [41] leaves of plates : ill. ; 25cm. Annotated throughout with the names of buyers and prices. Pieces of paper loosely inserted as bookmarks throughout. Provenance: Gilt armorial stamp displaying Vane-Tempest-Stewart marshalled with Chaplin under a marquess coronet with charges and motto (Metuenda corolla draconis) [used by Edith Helen Chaplin (1879-1959), m. in 1899 Charles Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 7th Marquess of Londonderry from 1915]. Binding: Twentieth-century full marbled paper over boards, gilt armorial stamp on upper cover, gilt lettering on upper cover "Important pictures". Marbled endpapers, gilt-top. Stapled. Original covers wanting.
Makers and roles
Messrs. Christie, Manson & Woods