Bonhams 1793 : BLUNDELL (HENRY)] An Account of the Statues, Busts, Bass-Relieves, Cinerary Urns, and Other Ancient Marbles, and Paintings at Ince, 1803

An Account of the Statues, Busts, Bass-Relieves, Cinerary Urns, and Other Ancient Marbles, and Paintings at Ince. Collected by H.B., first edition, engraved frontispiece by E. Scriven after G. Bullock (dated 1804), nineteenth century manuscript note concerning a monument to Blundell, blindstamp on title and final leaf, contemporary half calf, spine defective, 4to, Liverpool, J. McCreery, 1803

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Henry Blundell (1724-1810), of Ince Blundell in Lancashire, had begun collecting (mostly Old Master paintings) in the 1760s. In 1776, encouraged by his neighbour, the antiquary Charles Townley, he travelled to Italy, where he started to purchase antiquities. During three subsequent journeys (the last in 1790) he amassed the largest private collection in England. It was kept at Ince until the sale of the estate in 1959, when the collection was gifted to the City of Liverpool, and is now housed at the Walker Art Gallery.

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