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Cover of A catalogue of a select part of the capital, valuable, and genuine collection of pictures, the property of the Rt. Hon. Sir W. Hamilton, K.B. : purchased by him with great taste and at a liberal expence, from several distinguished cabinets in this country, and during thirty-seven years' residence as Minister Plenipotentiary at the courts of Naples : consisting of the works of the great and admired masters in the Italian, Spanish, French, Flemish, and Dutch schools, viz. Leon. da Vinci, Parmigiano, Polidoro, Garofalo, Titian, Giorgione, P. Veronese, Tintoretto, Schiavoni, Carracci, Schidani, Guido, Cagnacci, L. Giordano, Velasquez, S. Rosa, Vernet, Rubens, V. Dyck, Jordaens, Teniers, Berghem, V. de Velde, Wouvermans : particularly a small portrait, an exquisite cabinet picture, by Leon. da Vinci, formerly in the collection of the Earl of Arundel, and Lady E. Germaine : a Madonna and Child, by Parmegiano : and St. Sebastian, a noble composition, by V. Dyck : also, a small, but most capital assemblage of antique bustos, bas-reliefs, and other valuable marbles, particularly a bust of Nero, in porphyry : an exquisite bas-relief of Bacchus, and the goddess Meta : and an Ægyptian lion in basalt

A catalogue of a select part of the capital, valuable, and genuine collection of pictures, the property of the Rt. Hon. Sir W. Hamilton, K.B. : purchased by him with great taste and at a liberal expence, from several distinguished cabinets in this country, and during thirty-seven years' residence as Minister Plenipotentiary at the courts of Naples : consisting of the works of the great and admired masters in the Italian, Spanish, French, Flemish, and Dutch schools, viz. Leon. da Vinci, Parmigiano, Polidoro, Garofalo, Titian, Giorgione, P. Veronese, Tintoretto, Schiavoni, Carracci, Schidani, Guido, Cagnacci, L. Giordano, Velasquez, S. Rosa, Vernet, Rubens, V. Dyck, Jordaens, Teniers, Berghem, V. de Velde, Wouvermans : particularly a small portrait, an exquisite cabinet picture, by Leon. da Vinci, formerly in the collection of the Earl of Arundel, and Lady E. Germaine : a Madonna and Child, by Parmegiano : and St. Sebastian, a noble composition, by V. Dyck : also, a small, but most capital assemblage of antique bustos, bas-reliefs, and other valuable marbles, particularly a bust of Nero, in porphyry : an exquisite bas-relief of Bacchus, and the goddess Meta : and an Ægyptian lion in basalt

Christie, Mr. (James), 1730-1803