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ART AND COLLECTING Manuscript notebook containing an index of notable picture collection and two others image 1
ART AND COLLECTING Manuscript notebook containing an index of notable picture collection and two others image 2
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THE PROPERTY OF THE LATE KENNETH JOHN HEWETT

K.J. Hewett (1919-1994) was a renowned London dealer in ethnographic art and antiquities. Other books from his library were offered in these rooms on 21 March 2018.
Lot 171

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Manuscript notebook containing an index of notable picture collections, 1762/3 [ex Phillipps Mss 10254]; with a manuscript inventory and notes on hop farming (3)

4 December 2019, 11:00 GMT
London, Knightsbridge

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ART AND COLLECTING

Manuscript notebook containing an index of notable picture collections, including "Pictures at Lord Folkstone's", Hampton Court, "at Mr Sarjant's may place, Kent", "Sr Gregory Page's Blackheath", Penshurst, "Sr Geo. Colebrook's – Gatton, Surrey", Devonshire House, "Ld Temple's at Stow", "Sr Matthew Fetherstonhaugh's Up Park", Cowdray Place, "Mr Child's at Edge Hill", "Mr Hoare's at Stourton", "Lord Waldegrave's most capital Pictures", "Ld Spenser's at Wimbledon", "Pictures at the D.of St Albans's at Windsor", with notes from "Webb's Essay on Painting", on the "Sale of Pictures at Prestage's February 1764" and "Gems from the collection of the Elector Charles the 7th, sold at Langford's", 115 numbered pages, inscribed "Phillipps Mss 10254" on front inside board with additional pencilled note "Phillipps sale Sotheby's 1895 March 25, lot 887/ I think this mss is by T. Martyn – of the English Connoisseur, 1761", ownership inscription of W. Roberts, Clapham Park, original vellum, 4to (200 x 160mm.), [c.1762/3]; manuscript inventory of goods belonging to T.C. Devenish (cabinet maker and upholsterer), 33 Villiers Street, Strand, "Mr Coomb's property damaged by fire" and other properties, listing books, plate, linen etc., 37 ruled leaves interleaved with blotting paper, calf, inscribed in ink on front board, worn, oblong 8vo (112 x 180mm.), London, February 1802; manuscript school book of Master James Pilcher of Kent, dated January 1864, with later notes on hop farming, accounts, lists of pickers etc., c.36 leaves, marbled boards, 4to (225 x 185mm.), [1864-1902] (3)

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