Catalogue of the Collection of Pictures, Works of Art, and Decorative Objects, the Property of His Grace the Duke of Hamilton, K. T
Annan, James Craig
London. Messrs. Christie, Manson & Woods. 1882
Sold
The earliest published - and uncredited - commission of James Craig Annan, son of Scottish photographer Thomas Annan. The Annan family held the British rights to the newly invented photogravure technique after James Craig Annan was apprenticed to the Austrian inventor Karl Klic. Almost all of the works of the Annans are connected to Scotland and more particularly Glasgow.
The sale catalogue of the Hamilton Palace Collection illustrated with carbon prints by Annan consisted of 2,213 lots dispersed at auction in five parts between Saturday, June 17th and Thursday, July 20th 1882. The sale achieved a total of £397,000 and included fantastic Old Master paintings from every school (the catalogue reads like a dictionary of the great and the good in the field of painting) as well as important furniture, sculpture, porcelain, lacquer and objets, many with extraordinary provenance.
'This is an early use of photography for a sale catalogue.' (Buchanan - J. Craig Annan. Selected Texts and Bibliography. Oxford. 1994.).
[Buchanan 1].
The sale catalogue of the Hamilton Palace Collection illustrated with carbon prints by Annan consisted of 2,213 lots dispersed at auction in five parts between Saturday, June 17th and Thursday, July 20th 1882. The sale achieved a total of £397,000 and included fantastic Old Master paintings from every school (the catalogue reads like a dictionary of the great and the good in the field of painting) as well as important furniture, sculpture, porcelain, lacquer and objets, many with extraordinary provenance.
'This is an early use of photography for a sale catalogue.' (Buchanan - J. Craig Annan. Selected Texts and Bibliography. Oxford. 1994.).
[Buchanan 1].
pp. 234. Five 'portions' in 1 vol. 4to. Title to each 'portion' and 78 monochrome carbon print photographs, each captioned in pencil with the lot number of the item depicted; lots 878, 984, 998 and 1,456 are depicted in two different photographs while the photograph for lot 1,913 is present twice. Original publisher's scarlet cloth, title gilt to front board and spine, black endpapers.
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