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Auction archive: Lot number 141

AUTOGRAPH COLLECTION A collection of autograph letters and s...

Estimate
£1,000 - £1,500
ca. US$2,071 - US$3,106
Price realised:
£1,000
ca. US$2,071
Auction archive: Lot number 141

AUTOGRAPH COLLECTION A collection of autograph letters and s...

Estimate
£1,000 - £1,500
ca. US$2,071 - US$3,106
Price realised:
£1,000
ca. US$2,071
Beschreibung:

AUTOGRAPH COLLECTION. A collection of autograph letters and signed items, the majority English, 19th Century, including a number addressed to members of the Rothschild and Sassoon families, the signatories including
AUTOGRAPH COLLECTION. A collection of autograph letters and signed items, the majority English, 19th Century, including a number addressed to members of the Rothschild and Sassoon families, the signatories including: MUSICAL: Johann STRAUSS the younger (on engraved title page of Promenade Quadrille ), Nellie MELBA, Yehudi Menuhin, Victorien Sardou; LITERARY: George Gissing, John Galsworthy, Anatole France, Emile Zola (envelope only) and Marie Corelli; POLITICAL: David LLOYD GEORGE (1921, offering a knighthood), Richard COBDEN, Queen VICTORIA (1870, remitting the sentence of a deserter), Edward VII, Lord Randolph Churchill, Henry Grattan, 8th Duke of Devonshire (as Marquess of Hartington); ARTISTS: including Sir John Everett MILLAIS (1892, addressed to 'Mrs de Rothschild') and Benjamin Constant; and others including Sir Richard Owen and Amy Johnson (photograph signed), ; approximately 160 items in total, including approximately 20 addressed to Mrs Leopold de Rothschild (and one fragment of a letter by her), and 7 addressed to Mrs [Arthur] Sassoon. Marie Perugia (1862-1937), daughter of a Triest merchant, Achille Perugia, married Leopold de Rothschild in 1881. He sister Louise married Arthur Sassoon.

Auction archive: Lot number 141
Auction:
Datum:
12 Nov 2007
Auction house:
Christie's
12 November 2007, London, South Kensington
Beschreibung:

AUTOGRAPH COLLECTION. A collection of autograph letters and signed items, the majority English, 19th Century, including a number addressed to members of the Rothschild and Sassoon families, the signatories including
AUTOGRAPH COLLECTION. A collection of autograph letters and signed items, the majority English, 19th Century, including a number addressed to members of the Rothschild and Sassoon families, the signatories including: MUSICAL: Johann STRAUSS the younger (on engraved title page of Promenade Quadrille ), Nellie MELBA, Yehudi Menuhin, Victorien Sardou; LITERARY: George Gissing, John Galsworthy, Anatole France, Emile Zola (envelope only) and Marie Corelli; POLITICAL: David LLOYD GEORGE (1921, offering a knighthood), Richard COBDEN, Queen VICTORIA (1870, remitting the sentence of a deserter), Edward VII, Lord Randolph Churchill, Henry Grattan, 8th Duke of Devonshire (as Marquess of Hartington); ARTISTS: including Sir John Everett MILLAIS (1892, addressed to 'Mrs de Rothschild') and Benjamin Constant; and others including Sir Richard Owen and Amy Johnson (photograph signed), ; approximately 160 items in total, including approximately 20 addressed to Mrs Leopold de Rothschild (and one fragment of a letter by her), and 7 addressed to Mrs [Arthur] Sassoon. Marie Perugia (1862-1937), daughter of a Triest merchant, Achille Perugia, married Leopold de Rothschild in 1881. He sister Louise married Arthur Sassoon.

Auction archive: Lot number 141
Auction:
Datum:
12 Nov 2007
Auction house:
Christie's
12 November 2007, London, South Kensington
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