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Kennedy & anon. (Kennedy) 1760
Year of publication
1760
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A CATALOGUE Of the genuine COLLECTION of Italian, Dutch and Flemish PICTURES, Library of BOOKS, &c. OF Dr. KENNEDY, DECEAS'D. Likewise some Pictures belonging to a Gentleman of Queen-Square, lately Deceased. Which will be Sold by Auction, by Mr. PRESTAGE, At his Great Room, the end of Savile-Row, next Conduit-street, Hanover-square, On Wednesday the 30th of April, 1760, and the following Day. The said Pictures and Books may be viewed to the Time of Sale, which will begin each Day punctually at Twelve o'Clock. CATALOGUES will be given gratis at Mr. PRESTAGE's

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Preface and paratexts

FINIS.

Notes

The library belonged to Kennedy; the anonymous collector sold only pictures.

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auction catalogue private library, auction catalogue multiple collections

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First Day's Sale, Wednesday, April 30, 1760. PICTURES.

1 A Man and Woman by Candle-light, a Landscape with a Man Ploughing, and a Chymist in the Elaboratory
2 A Boy's Head with Flowers
3 The Flight into Egypt, and two Landscapes and Figures
4 A Sea-port, and a Landscape and Figures
5 Venus and Cupid, Mary Queen of Scots, a Man in a Festoon of Flowers, and a Landscape and Figures
6 A Monkey and Birds, and an upright Landscape and Figures
7 A Holy Family
8 Still Life, a Man drinking, and a Landscape and Figures
9 A Statuary half length
10 Two Landscapes and Figures
11 Two pieces in Chiaro Oscuro
12 A Saint praying, and two Landscapes and Figures
13 A Town on Fire, Ruins and Figures, a Landscape, and a Sea-piece
14 Two Landscapes and Figures, a Sea-storm, and a view in Brussels
15 A Fruit-piece, and a Landscape and Figures
16 Two Landscapes and Figures
17 A Landscape and Figures, and a Gentleman half length
18 Apollo sleaing Marsyas
19 Venus and Adonis
20 Mary Queen of Scots, a Landscape, and a Bishop
21 Sir Robert Walpole
22 A Head of Artemesia Genteleski
23 The Story of Circe
24 An upright Landscape and Figures
25 Two Madonas
26 A Venus as big as Life
27 A Magdalen
28 The last Supper
29 A Landscape and Figures
30 A Girl's Head
31 A small Landscape and Figures, and two Battle-pieces
Page 2
32 A Madona
33 A Flower-piece
34 A Mountebank
35 A Ceiling-piece, a sketch
36 A Battle-piece, and a History-piece
37 A Landscape with Figures going a Hunting
38 Our Saviour crowned with Thorns
39 A Magdalen praying
40 The Siege of Dunkirk
41 A Fruit-piece
42 Two Landscapes and Figures
43 A Battle-piece
44 The Conversion of St. Paul, painted on Agate in art Ebony frame
45 Jephtha's Rash Vow
46 A Fish-piece
47 Two Landscapes and Figures
48 Two Sea-pieces
49 Two Heads of Dr. Kennedy
50 A School
51 A Holy Family
52 A Lady by Candle-light
53 Rebecca at the Well
54 One Gentleman and a Lady, half length
55 A Frost-piece
56 Two Views in Venice
57 Duke of Buckingham on Horse back
58 Vertumnus and Pomona
59 A Lady half length
60 Bacchus and Ariadne
61 A Sea-port with Shipping
62 The Virgin, our Saviour, and St. Joseph Reading
63 A Fresh Gale
64 A Lady with a Rabbit
65 Venus whole length after
66 Hercules and Omphale
67 Touch Me Not
68 A View in Venice
69 Charles I. and his Queen, and a Holy Family in a Landscape
70 Two Landscapes with Buildings and Figures
71 A Holy Family
72 A Flower-piece
73 The Temptation of St. Anthony and a piece of Monkeys
74 King William and Queen Mary
75 Bacchanals, &c. in a Landscape
76 The Wise Mens Offering
77 A Man's head
78 A Landscape and Figures
79 Peter denying Christ
80 St. John

First Day's Sale, Wednesday, April 30, 1760. BRONZES.

81 Ceres on a Pedestal
82 Venus ditto
83 Our Saviour and a Boy
84 Lucretia and a Figure without a Head or Arms
85 A Boy with Fruit
86 A Boy lying
87 A Boy crying, AEneas and his Father, an old Man in Terra-Cota and Two China Jars
88 An Ebony Cabinet inlaid with Mother o' Pearl
89 A Commode Table curiously inlaid

Second Day's Sale, Thursday, May 1. PICTURES.

1 A History piece on Copper, a Landscape and Figures, and a Man with a Horse and Dog
2 Two Gentlemen half length, / and a ditto 3 qrs.
3 The Virgin, our Saviour &c. a sketch
4 Four Landscapes and Figures
5 Three Sea-pieces
6 A piece of Architecture, and Live Fowls
7 The Death of Adonis, a Lady's Head, and a Holy Family
8 Two Sea pieces, a small Landscape, a Blackmoor's Head, a view of Hell
9 The Children of Israel gathering Manna, and David taking the Shew Bread, its companion
10 A Gentleman, whole length
11 A Fresh Gale
12 A Landscape, with Cattle and Figures
13 A Landscape and Figures
Page 3
14 A piece of Birds
15 An Offering to Venus
16 The Inside of a Church, and a Landscape and Figures
17 A Man's Head
18 A Man's Head
19 Sheep, &c.
20 Diana and Acteon
21 Bourdon the Painter, by himself, in a Festoon of Flowers
22 A L$ndscape with Cattle and Figures
23 The Three Graces
24 A Landscape and Figures
25 The Duke of Ormond and Sir Richard Steel
26 A F$uit-piece
27 Two pieces of Cattle and Figures
28 Polynethus and Galatea and Bacchanals dancing
29 A Sea-piece
30 A Lady half length, in Miniature
31 Atalanta and Meleager
32 A Landscape with Lightning
33 A Battle
34 Meleager killing his two Uncles (this picture is Engraved)
35 Beggars at Cards
36 A Landscape and Figures
37 Solomon drawn to Idolatry
38 The Adoration
39 A Hawk and dead Game &c.
40 A Family at Dinner
41 A Shepherd and Shepherdess with Sheep
42 A Calm
43 A piece of Architecture and Figures
44 A Boy and Girl with Flowers
45 A Holy Family
46 A Town on Free
47 A Woman's Head
48 A Landscape
49 St. John Baptizing our Saviour
50 Judith with the Head of Holofernes
51 Venus and Adonis
52 Orpheus Charming the Beasts
53 A Landscape and Figures
54 Two Landscapes and Figures
55 His Mother
56 Herbage &c.
57 The Inside of a Church, the Figures Old Frank
58 A View of Tyrol
59 Isaac blessing Jacob
60 A Battle piece
61 Charity
62 The Virgin, our Saviour, and St. John
63 A Moon-light
64 A Landscape with Architecture and Figures
65 A Nobleman half length
66 A Lady, its Companion
67 Judith cutting off Holofernes's Head
68 St. Andrew going to be Crucified
69 Bacchus and Venus
70 The Conference of Scipio and Hanibal, a finished sketch
71 A Magdalen
72 Noah's Sons mocking him
73 A Conversation
74 Raising of Lazarus
75 A Landscape and Figures
76 Cupid looking at Psyche by Torch-light
77 A Holy Family, with Angels
78 A View of the Rhine
79 A Landscape and Figures
80 An Herb Shop
81 The Stoning of St. Stephen, a very Capital Picture in his best Manner

Second Day's Sale, Thursday, May 1. DRAWINGS.

82 Four by Parmeticcio and others
83 Four by Gas. Poussin, Julio Romano &c.
84 Five by Carlo Maratti and Andrea Sacchi
85 Two by Rubens and Vandyke
86 Seventeen by Various Masters
Page 4

Thursday May the 1st. To begin selling punctually at Six o'Clock. BOOKS, OCTAVO, &c.

1 VIE des poetes Grecs / and 29 more
2 Arrol's Eutropius / and 34 more
3 Terence par Dacier, 3 tom. / and 6 more
4 Clifton's Hippocrates / and 4 more
5 Science des medailles, 2 tom. / _ Walker on coins and medals
6 Newton's optics / _ Baker on learning / _ Des Piles lives of the painters
7 Sharp's Hebrew and Latin grammar / and 2 more
8 Potter's antiquities of Greece, 2 vols / _ Kennet's antiquities
9 Histoire du Ciel, 2 tom. / and 3 more
10 A parcel of pamphlets

Thursday May the 1st. To begin selling punctually at Six o'Clock. QUARTO.

11 Hildani opera, / and 8 more
12 Willis opera omnia, / and 6 more
13 Cornelio Tacito, / and 9 more, Italian and Spanish
14 Littleton's dictionary / and 4 more
14 Boerhaave index plantarum / _ Alpinus de plantis AEgypti, / and one more
16 Erizzo sopra le medaglie de gli antichi, / and 6 more
17 Mead's catalogue of medals, / and 8 others on medals and antiquities
18 Catalogue of Sir Luke Schaub's pictures, / and 2 numbers of Stukeley's Paleographia
19 De Nummo Pantheo, / and 4 more on antiquities, &c.
20 Gorlaei dactyliotheca, / and 6 more on medals
21 Bibliotheca Italiana / _ Plinio historia naturale
22 Simon on Irish coins
23 Histoire de Carausius Paris 1740
24 Stukeley's medalic history of Carausius
25 Les Cesars de L'Empereur Julien
26 Dr. Kennedy's catalogue of medals, M. S.
27 Osservazioni sopra medaglioni antichi da Buonarroti
28 Vaillant historia regum Syriae / _ Vaillant selectiora numismata
29 Vaillant numismata imperatorum Romanorum, 3 tom. Romae 1743
30 L'Abecedario pittorio Bologna 1719
31 Baglione vite de Pittori / _ Vite de Pittori sel secolo XVII.
32 Trattato dell Pittura di Lomazzo / _ Idea del tempio della Pittura di Lomazzo
33 Ragionamenti del Vasari / _ De veri precetti della Pittura di Armenini

Thursday May the 1st. To begin selling punctually at Six o'Clock. FOLIO.

34 Hippocratis opera, Presagia a Hollerii, &c. / and 7 more commentators on Hippocrates
35 Avicenna opera, / and 4 more
36 Suidas lexicon, Gr. 2 tom. / and 2 more
37 Speed's history of Great Britain, / and 3 more
38 Casalius de urbis ac Romana, / and 7 more
39 Dictionaire de Moreri, 4 tom.
40 Oeuvres de Plutarque, 4 tom.
41 Goltzii opera, 4 tom.
42 Reinesii inscriptionum antiquarum, / and 3 more
43 Harduini opera / _ Occonis numismata / _ Augustini numismata
44 Patini numismata, / and 3 more
45 Sicilia di Paruta / _ Cesari in oro, di Pedrusi, tom. 1
46 Histoire des Drogues par Pomet Paris 1694
47 Prideaux's connection, 2 vols. 1718
48 Spanhemius de numismata, tom. 1
49 Commentaires historiques par Tristan, 3 tom. Paris 1644
50 Medailles de la Reine Christine Haye 1743
51 Vaillant numismata Graeca / _ Vaillant historia
52 Ptolomaeorum / _ Vaillant numismata in coloniis
53 Thesaurus Morellianus, 2 tom. Amst. 1734
54 Banduri numismata, 2 tom. Paris 1718