A catalogue of the genuine, entire and curious collection of prints and drawings, bound and unbound, of the learned and ingenious Martin Folkes, Esq. late president of the Royal Society, deceas'd; which (by order of the executors) will be sold by auction, by Mr. Langford, at his house in the Great Piazza, Covent Garden, on Thursday the 15th of this instant January 1756, and the seven following evenings ... / [Martin Folkes].

  • Folkes, Martin, 1690-1754.
Date:
[1756]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A catalogue of the genuine, entire and curious collection of prints and drawings, bound and unbound, of the learned and ingenious Martin Folkes, Esq. late president of the Royal Society, deceas'd; which (by order of the executors) will be sold by auction, by Mr. Langford, at his house in the Great Piazza, Covent Garden, on Thursday the 15th of this instant January 1756, and the seven following evenings ... / [Martin Folkes]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    1 Drawings. 32 ^“T°^HREE by Pomerancia and others /£ 33 A Three of figures, from the antique /a ^34 Three from ditto 35 Five from ditto tQ 36 Nine from ditto jf\ (g 37 Two by Rembrandt and Vandyfit / //.j ®ne» high finifh'd by De Gheyn, of a mifer and the devil 39 The altar of St. Sylvia in the church of St. Gregory 40 A high finifh’d landfcape in water colours, by Rademaker 41 imagines Rcgum Angli, ailata Romam Anno 1627, a Patre Joanne Tomfon, Soc. Jefu qui Roma Poltea Pic, obiit An. 1637 42 A plan curioufiy drawn on vellum 43 The triumph of love by Mifhop, fram’d and glaz’d 44 A large and fine landfcape by Swanevelt, ditto ... * Books of Prints. 45 OTxty-two Vafes from the antique 4/3 The Florentine Gallery^ by P. de Cortona 47 Prints, by various matters 48 Pine's Knights of the Bath 49 A collection of Prints by Spagnoktta, Rembrandt, PouJfin9 P. left a, Mellan, Elfbeimer, and other mailers 50 Recueil d’Ellampes par J. Coleman —- D’Anvers, richly bound and gilt 51 Fenier's Gallery 52 The Luxemburgh Gallery by Rubens, bejl imprejjion, richly bound in turky leather and gilt 53 Le Page's Works 54 King of France's Cabinet ia 3 vol. jfwo of the?n richly hound and gilt, and one half bound 53 A Roman MifTal on Vellum, of Chrift and the Virgin, beautifully illuminated and finely preferv'd, bound in green velvet, and ornamented voith filver gilt. -—This was Margaret of Va to is Queen of Navarre 56 Two port folio with leaves, bound in roiigh calf 57 Nine finall port folio’s of various forts ' Prints. 58 \TIME etchings by Guido, Guercino, Sec. 59 JL% Twelve ditto by Guido, Carlo Matratti, Sec, 60 Eight dhp by Guido, Sec. 61 Sh?