Caption
Book auction at Sotheby's in London, Book sale at Sotheby's auction rooms, print, book illustration, photograph, Interior of the auction room with the auctioneer, EG Hodge, on a raised platform. Next to him sits his clerk, G. Snowdon, writing. The attendees listen with interest to the auctioneer or view several books., printmaker: Carl Hentschel & Company, after drawing by Henry Marriott Paget, publisher: John Grant, London, 1904, paper, photoaquatint, heliogravure, with printed semi-transparent sheet, height 113 mm x width 163 mm, Print from: Hazlitt, 1904. A semi-transparent sheet is placed over the print on which the attendees are identified., art sale, auction, book, book-shop, bookseller, bookshelves, A rectangular page shows a wide horizontal illustration with faint sepia tones and thin black outlines depicting a courtroom or assembly scene with many seated and standing figures sketched in profile and three-quarter views, some wearing hats and varied headwear, one figure elevated behind a bench, others clustered around benches and railings, a few figures writing or leaning forward, simple linear furnishings including tiered benches and a foreground desk, a numbered key area occupying the top portion with handwritten entries, and a narrow printed caption centered below the illustration.
Credit line
Photo12/Liszt Collection
Reference
LZT26B28_161
License type
Rights managed
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37.3Mb (10.7Mb) / 14.1in x 10.3in / 4223 x 3088 (300dpi)