November 1849: Fine Art Sale, Morrison and Brown, Crown Sale Rooms, 11 Virginia Street

An advertisement on page three of The Glasgow Herald, on Monday the 5th of November, 1849,

informed readers about a “FINE ART SALE” which was to be held on Friday the 9th.

 

Morrison and Brown, the auctioneers at the Crown Sale Rooms, 11 Virginia Street, were offering prints

“and a few Original Paintings, by some of the EMINENT MASTERS”.

 

The former included an “ENGRAVING of the Waterloo Banquet; Introduction of Christianity; Horses

at the Fountain; Challenge; Stag at Bay; Sanctuary; several Wilkie’s [sic]; French Coloured Lithographs.”

 

Catalogues would be available at the Rooms, on Thursday the 8th.

 

 

 

George Fairfull-Smith, July 2024.