La Vente Hamilton (1883)

Description

The sale of the Hamilton Palace collection in 1882 broke up one of the last great aristocratic assemblages in Britain: furniture, porcelain, manuscripts and pictures gathered over generations, scattered in seventeen days of bidding. Paul Eudel, the chronicler of the Paris salerooms, followed it piece by piece and price by price.For the history of collecting and of the art market, it is a first-hand record of the moment when such collections began to move from houses to museums.This is a faithful print-on-demand facsimile of the 1883 Paris edition, reproduced in full from a library copy. The historical text is reproduced without modification; only the format, margins and legibility have been reset for modern printing.