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CATALOGUE 
 
 OF THE 
 
 VERT CHOICE COLLECTION 
 
 WATER-COLOUR DRAWINGS, 
 
 AND 
 
 PICTURES, 
 
 OF 
 
 JOHN DILLON, ESQ., 
 
 DECEASED: 
 
 ALSO, A FEW 
 
 MARBLES, BRONZES, AND ETRUSCAN VASES. 
 
 Which (by order of the Executrix) 
 
 WILL BE SOLD BY AUCTION, 
 
 BY MESSRS. 
 
 CHRISTIE, MANSON & WOODS, 
 
 AT THEIR GREAT ROOMS, 
 
 8, KING- STREET, ST. JAMES’S SQUARE, 
 
 On SATURDAY, APRIL 17, 1869, 
 
 AT ONE O’CLOCK PRECISELY. 
 
 May be publicly viewed Three Days preceding, and Catalogues 
 had at Messrs. Christie, Manson and Woods’ Offices, 8, King Street, 
 St. James's Square, S.W. 
 
CONDITIONS OF SALE. 
 
 I. THE highest Bidder to be the Buyer; and if any dispute arise 
 between two or more Bidders, the Lot so in dispute shall be 
 immediately put up again and re-sold. 
 
 II. No Person shall advance less than Is.; above Five Pounds, 5s.; 
 and so on in proportion. 
 
 III. The Purchasers to give in their Names and Places of Abode, 
 
 and to pay down 5s. in the Pound, or more, in part payment, 
 or the whole of the Purchase Money, if required ; in default 
 of which, the Lot or Lots so purchased to be immediately put 
 up again and re-sold. 
 
 IV. The Lots to be taken away and paid for, whether genuine and 
 
 authentic or not, with all faults and errors of description, at 
 the Buyer’s expense and risk, within Two days from the Sale; 
 Messrs. Christie, Manson and Woods not being responsible 
 for the correct description, genuineness, or authenticity of 
 any Lot. 
 
 V. To prevent inaccuracy in delivery, and inconvenience in the 
 settlement of the Purchases, no Lot can on any account be 
 removed during the time of Sale; and the remainder of the 
 Purchase-Money must absolutely be paid on delivery. 
 
 VI. Upon failure of complying with the above Conditions, the 
 Money deposited in part of payment shall be forfeited; all 
 Lots uncleared within the time aforesaid shall be re-sold by 
 public or private Sale, and the deficiency (if any) attending 
 such re-sale shall be made good by the Defaulter at this Sale. 
 
CATALOGUE. 
 
 On SATURDAY, APRIL 17, 1869, 
 
 AT ONE O’CLOCK PRECISELY. 
 
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 1 Portrait of Dr. Johnson — in crayons. 
 
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 4 The Sybils. From the fresco in the church of S. Maria della 
 
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 7 A Peasant Girl. 
 
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 8 A Female Head. 
 
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 9 A Girl of Granada on a Mule. Exhibited at Manchester. 
 
 J. F. LEWIS, R.A. 
 
 10 A Roman Boy. Exhibited at Manchester. 
 
 G. BARRETT. 
 
 11 Solitude : a grand rocky scene, with a pool of water. Exhibited 
 
 at Manchester 1857. 
 
 J. F. LEWIS, R.A. 
 
 12 The Temple of Isis, Thebes. 
 
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 13 Entrance to Bruce’s Tomb, Valley of the Kings. 
 
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 17 Mount Lebanon. 
 
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 18 A River Scene: sunset. 
 
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 19 The Tribune, Florence. Exhibited at Manchester. 
 
 20 The Rialto. 
 
 21 A View in Wales. 
 
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 22 XANTHUS, with the river. Exhibited at Manchester. 
 
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 23 Homer’s River, Smyrne. Exhibited at Manchester. 
 
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 24 Valley, looking from Xanthus to Pinara. Exhibited at 
 
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 25 Xanthus AND Ruins FROM Chioke. Exhibited at Manchester. 
 
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 26 Tombs AT Macry. Exhibited at Manchester. 
 
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 38 THE LAKE OF NEMI. Engraved in ELakewill's work. 
 
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 39 THE FALLS OF TERNI. Engraved in SakewilVs work. 
 
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 40 PENDENNIS CASTLE. Engraved in the Southern Coast. 
 
 Exhibited at Manchester. 
 
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 41 LULWORTH CASTLE. Engraved in the Southern Coast. 
 
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 42 POOLE, DORSETSHIRE. Engraved in the Southern Coast. 
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 43 RIYAULX ABBEY. Engraved in England and Wales. Ex¬ 
 
 hibited at Manchester. . ■ 
 
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 44 MONT BLANC FROM AOSTA. From the Pilkington Col¬ 
 
 lection. Exhibited at Manchester. i : 7 
 
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 45 FOLLY HILL, YORKSHIRE. From the same Collection. 
 
 J. M. W. TURNER, R.A._ 
 
 46 A LANDSCAPE, with figures driving animals to a pool of water, 
 
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 47 INTEEIOE OF WESTMINSTEE ABBEY: the chapel north 
 
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 of the choir. From the Harewood Collection. 
 
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 48 NORHAM CASTLE, on the Tweed. From the Harewood Col- 
 
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 49 A Dutch River-scene, with boats. 
 
 
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 52 Interior, with four figures after De Hooghe. 
 
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 53 American Autumn Scenery. 
 
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 54 A Lake Scene. 
 
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 56 LlSMORE —a vignette. 
 
 F. D. HARDY, 1858. 
 
 57 The Cotter’s Saturday Night. 
 
 W. H. FURSE, 1867. 
 
 58 The Young Giotto. 
 
 C. BROCKY. 
 
 59 Music and Sculpture protected by the Muse of Poetry. 
 
 GUIDO (After). 
 
 60 The Aurora, by M. A. Hayter. 
 
 RAFFAELLE (After). 
 
 61 The Madonna della Seggiola, with a miniature of the painter 
 
 above—in richly carved frame. 
 
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 62 Mariette’s Temple, with the Great Pyramid. 
 
 T. STOTHARD, R.A. 
 
 63 Four of the Muses in a landscape. Engraved as an illustration to 
 
 Alaric Watts's Poems. From the Collection of S. Rogers , Esq. 
 
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 64 A Pair of Conversations Champetres— ovals. 
 
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 66 A Group of Flowers in a Glass Bottle. 
 
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 67 Study of a Man’s Head. 
 
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 68 Venice, from the Giudecca^ with the Dogana, and Sta. 
 Maria della Salute. Bought from, the Artist. 
 
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 69 Three Children. 
 
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 72 Shakespeare’s Cliff, Dover. 
 
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 73 Hastings : the Lover’s Seat— the companion. 
 
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 74 ISOLA DEL PESCATORE, LAGO MaGGIORE. 
 
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 75 JEANNIE DEANS INTERCEDING WITH THE QUEEN 
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 96 George F. Cook, as Richard III. Engraved. 
 
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 97 Russell, as Jerry Sneak, 
 
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 98 A HYDRIA, with three figures in red on black ground. 
 
 
 
 
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 99 An AMPHORA, with figures in black heightened with purple and 
 
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 101 AN AMPHORA, with a frieze of figures, with inscriptions on 
 
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CATALOGUE 
 
 OF THE 
 
 CURIOUS AND VALUABLE LIBRARY 
 
 OF THE LATE 
 
 JOHN DILLON, ESQ., 
 
 COMPRISING AN 
 
 (Eutmarbiimrir Callcdioir uf 100kg* 
 
 Co 0_ ; ' 
 
 EXTENSIVELY ILLUSTRATED WITH RARE AUTOGRAPHS, 
 PORTRAITS, DRAWINGS, Ac. &c. 
 
 INCLUDING 
 
 Lord Braybrooke’s History of Audrey End ; Butler’s Hudibras and 
 Remains ; Byron’s Poetical Works and Life, enlarged to 26 vol. 4to. ; 
 Hours of Idleness, and English Bards and Scotch Reviewers, 
 3 vols. folio ; Dryden’s Life, by Scott, with an Autograph Letter 
 of Dryden, excessively rare; Evelyn’s Memoirs, 4 vols. imp. 4to.; 
 Evelyn’s Miscellaneous Writings, one vol. 4to. ; Lord King’s Life 
 of Locke, with Holograph Letter, &c. ; Lockhart’s Memoirs of 
 Scott ; an Extraordinary Collection relative to Charles Ma¬ 
 thews, including his Memoirs, 4 vols. 8vo., 1 vol. 4to. and 2 vols. folio ; 
 Pepys’ Diary and Correspondence; Tytler’s Life of Sir Walter 
 Raleigh, containing Holograph Letters of Queen Elizabeth; 
 Erancis Duke of Alen^on; Sir Walter Raleigh; Earl of Essex, 
 rare portraits, drawings, fyc., enlarged to 3 vols. folio. ; Spence’s Anec¬ 
 dotes, one vol. folio; and many others ; 
 
 NUMEROUS WORKS OF STANDARD LITERATURE, 
 
 (Merits, §uoIis at Jnnis, 
 
 AN ORIGINAL COPY OF ROBERTS’ EGYPT AND THE HOLY LAND 
 COLOURED AND MOUNTED AS DRAWINGS; 
 
 TO WHICH ARE ADDED, SOME 
 
 IMPORTANT COUNTY HISTORIES, 
 
 Deautrfulto |(Kustnifetr, 
 
 Dallaway’s Sussex; Ormerod’s Cheshire; Whitaker’s Leeds and 
 
 Richmonushire, &c. 
 
 WHICH WILL BE SOLD BY AUCTION, 
 
 BY MESSRS. 
 
 SOTHEBY, WILKINSON & HODGE, 
 
 auctioneers of Uatcraro Iflropcrty Storks fUustratibc of tljc June 'arts, 
 
 AT THEIR HOUSE, No. 13, WELLINGTON STREET, STRAND, W.C. 
 
 On MONDAY, the 7th. of JUNE, 1869, and Two following Days, 
 
 AT ONE O’CLOCK PRECISELY. 
 
 MAT BE VIEWED TWO DAYS PRIOR, AND CATALOGUES HAD. 
 
 J. Davy and Sons, Printers, 137, Long Acre, London. 
 
CONDITIONS OF SALE. 
 
 I. The highest bidder to he the buyer; and if any dispute arise between 
 
 bidders, the lot so disputed shall be immediately put up again, provided 
 the seller cannot decide the said dispute. 
 
 II. No person to advance less than 6d.; above ten shillings. Is.; above five 
 
 pounds, 2s. 6d.; and so on. 
 
 Ill The purchasers to give in their names and places of abode, and to pay 
 down 10s. in the pound, if required, in part payment of the purchase- 
 money; in default of which the lot or lots purchased to be immediately 
 put up again and resold. 
 
 IV. The lots to be taken away, at the buyer’s expense, immediately after 
 the conclusion of the sale; in default of which Messrs. Sotheby, 
 Wilkinson & Hodge will not hold themselves responsible if lost, 
 stolen, damaged, or otherwise destroyed, but they will be left at the sole 
 risk of the purchaser. If, at the expiration of One Week after the 
 conclusion of the sale, the books or other property are not cleared or 
 paid for, they will then be catalogued for immediate sale, and the expense, 
 the same as if re-sold, will be added to the amount at which the books 
 were bought. Messrs. Sotheby, Wilkinson and Hodge will have 
 the option of reselling the lots uncleared either by public oi private 
 sale, without any notice being given to the defaulter. 
 
 V. The hooks are presumed to be perfect, unless otherwise expressed; but if, 
 
 upon collating, any should prove defective, the purchaser will be at 
 liberty to take or reject them, provided they are returned within One 
 Week after the conclusion of the sale, when the purchase-money will 
 be returned. 
 
 VI. The sale of any book or books is not to be set aside on account of an^ 
 stained or short leaves of text or plates, want of list of plates, or on 
 account of the publication of any subsequent volume, supplement, ap¬ 
 pendix, or plates. All the manuscripts, autographs, all magazines, and 
 reviews, all books in lots, and all tracts in lots or volumes, will be sold 
 with all faults, imperfections, and errors of description. The sale of any 
 illustrated book, lot of prints or drawings is not to be set aside on account 
 of any error in the enumeration of the numbers stated, or errors of 
 description' 
 
 VII. No Imperfect Book will be taken back, unless a note accompanies 
 each book, stating its imperfections, with the number of lot and date of 
 the sale at which the same was purchased. 
 
 VIII. To prevent inaccuracy in the delivery, and inconvenience in the settle¬ 
 ment of the purchases, no lot can on any account be removed during the 
 time of sale. 
 
 IX. Upon failure of complying withtheabove Conditions, the money required 
 and deposited in part of payment shall be forfeited; and if any loss is 
 sustained in the reselling of such lots as are not cleared or paid for , all 
 charges on such re-sale shall be made good by the defaulters at this sale. 
 
 Gentlemen who cannot attend the Sale may have their Commissions faithfully 
 executed by their humble servants, 
 
 SOTHEBY, WILKINSON & HODGE, 
 
 Wellington Street, Strand.