[Rarebooks] FS: Ancient Lansdowne Marbles -1930 auction catalog

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>From our newly published catalog #305,
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"Catalogue of the Celebrated Collection of Ancient Marbles the property of
the Most Honorable the Marquess of Lansdowne, M.V.O. D.S.O."

London; Christie, Manson &  Woods: March 5, 1930.

The auction sale of one of the finest private collections of ancient
sculpture put together by an 18th century English collector. Lord
Shelburne's collection was assembled mainly by the Scottish painter and
excavator Gavin Hamilton, much of the material coming from his excavations
in the vicinity of Hadrian's Tiburtine villa. William Petty-FitzMaurice
[1737-1805], the 1st Marquess of Lansdowne, Earl of Shelburne, was a noted
collector and Whig politician who quarreled on and off with George III and
was instrumental in ending England's war with its' American colonies.

Hardcover. 6"x10", 109 pages, 121 lots, plus 38 b/w plates. Covers with
light wear, spine with a short split. An ink inscription on the endpaper
states that this copy was given to the owner by Lord Lansdowne during a
visit in 1934. [31193] $100.00


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