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auction

Also known as: auction
Related terms: agriculture; art
Broader terms: x12656; commerce/finance

132 related objects

almanac; print; book-illustration; satirical print

Museum number: 1863,0411.57-68 |
Producer name: Print made by:George CruikshankPrinted by:Whitehead & Co |
Production date: 1842 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

booklet

Museum number: EA87988 |
Production date: 1958 |
Findspot: Found/Acquired:Cairo

drawing

Museum number: 1939,0711.1 |
Producer name: BIOG21103 Drawn by:Hablot Knight Browne (Phiz) |
Production date: 1815-1882

drawing; print study

Museum number: 1891,0617.20 |
Producer name: Drawn by:Charles KeeneAfter:Edwin Long |
Production date: 1876

drawing; print study

Museum number: 1882,1209.386 |
Producer name: BIOG25614 Drawn by:John Doyle (HB) |
Production date: 1830

drawing; album; print

Museum number: 1892,0411.116.1-25 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Drawn by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1785-1790

drawing

Museum number: 1880,1113.2159 |
Producer name: BIOG50387 Drawn by:Charles Warren |
Production date: 1803

drawing; print study

Museum number: 1872,0113.368 |
Producer name: BIOG45530 Drawn by:Hermanus Petrus Schoute |
Production date: 1762-1800

drawing; print study

Museum number: 1891,1117.1738 |
Producer name: BIOG63250 Drawn by:George Cruikshank |
Production date: 1807-1878

drawing; print study

Museum number: 1899,0420.99 |
Producer name: BIOG44408 Drawn by:Thomas Rowlandson |
Production date: 1757-1827

drawing

Museum number: 1880,1113.4550 |
Producer name: BIOG46091 Drawn by:Thomas Hosmer Shepherd |
Production date: 1851

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 2006,U.1814 |
Producer name: BIOG19532 After:Thomas Bewick |
Production date: 1811-1823

print; chapbook

Museum number: 1882,0311.4167 |
Producer name: BIOG19532 Print made by:Thomas Bewick |
Production date: 1798

print

Title: Abraham Langford |
Museum number: 1899,0805.2 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1770s

print

Title: Abraham Langford |
Museum number: 1902,1011.7245 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1770s

print; book-illustration

Title: An auction room |
Museum number: 1926,0410.90 |
Producer name: BIOG34205 Print made by:Alexej Iljich Kravchenko |
Production date: 1924

print; satirical print; ticket

Title: The Battle of the Pictures |
Museum number: Cc,1.137 |
Producer name: BIOG31785 Print made by:William Hogarth |
Production date: 1745 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; trade-card

Museum number: Heal,5.16 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1811

print; satirical print

Title: To be sold to the best bidder |
Museum number: 1867,0309.752 |
Producer name: After:Edward TophamPublished by:Matthew Darly |
Production date: 1773 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: The Repository, or Tatter'd-Sale |
Museum number: 1977,1001.40 |
Producer name: BIOG24515 Published by:Mary Darly |
Production date: 1777 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: The Compleat Auctioner |
Museum number: 1851,0308.20 |
Producer name: BIOG40148 Print made by:Sutton Nicholls |
Production date: 1700

print; trade-card

Museum number: 1983,U.2327 |
Producer name: BIOG179696 Print made by:Christopher Towes |
Production date: 1790s |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Title: large log of Honduras mahogany |
Museum number: 1868,0808.13549 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1850

print; drawing book

Title: Doctor Syntax at an auction. |
Museum number: 1869,1224.603.1955 |
Producer name: After:Thomas RowlandsonPublished by:Ackermann |
Production date: 1820 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; trade-card

Museum number: Heal,5.13 |
Producer name: BIOG133198 Print made by:Garnett Terry |
Production date: 1780 - 1820

print; book-illustration

Title: Christie's Auction Room |
Museum number: 1856,0712.690 |
Producer name: Print made by:John BluckAfter:Augustus Charles Pugin |
Production date: 1808 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; trade-card

Museum number: Heal,5.5 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1780 -1820

print; book-illustration

Title: A Sale at Tattersall's |
Museum number: 1979,0407.16.13 |
Producer name: Print made by:François PannemakerAfter:Gustave Doré |
Production date: 1872

print; trade-card

Museum number: Heal,5.12 |
Producer name: BIOG208404 Print made by:Richard Carpenter |
Production date: 1780 - 1820

print

Museum number: 2010,7081.7469 |
Producer name: BIOG33307 After:Thomas Musgrave Joy |
Production date: 1870

print; satirical print

Museum number: 1868,0808.13137 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1750

print; satirical print

Title: The political brokers or an auction a la mode de Paris |
Museum number: 1868,0808.4263 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1762

print; satirical print

Title: [An Edinburgh auction] |
Museum number: 1852,1009.842 |
Producer name: BIOG33550 Print made by:John Kay |
Production date: 1785

print; satirical print

Museum number: 1877,0811.1087 |
Producer name: After:Egbert van Heemskerck IIPrint made by:William Henry Toms |
Production date: 1730

print; satirical print

Museum number: 1988,0514.31 |
Producer name: BIOG31062 After:Egbert van Heemskerck II |
Production date: 1730

print; satirical print

Museum number: 1867,0309.289 |
Producer name: BIOG41880 Print made by:Lawrence Barnett Phillips |
Production date: 1857-1867

print; satirical print

Museum number: 1866,0407.56 |
Producer name: After:Egbert van Heemskerck IIPrint made by:William Henry Toms |
Production date: 1732

print; satirical print

Title: [Lord North as an auctioneer] |
Museum number: 1868,0808.4665 |
Producer name: BIOG130857 Published by:Edward Hedges |
Production date: 1780

print

Title: Digger Auction / Eagle Hawk / Bendigo Sketches of the Victoria gold diggings and diggers |
Museum number: 1969,0614.33 |
Producer name: BIOG28970 Print made by:Samuel Thomas Gill |
Production date: 1852

print

Museum number: 1986,0621.41 |
Producer name: BIOG34219 Print made by:Bernhard Kretzschmar |
Production date: 1920

print; frontispiece

Museum number: 1881,0611.275 |
Producer name: BIOG49372 Print made by:Gerard van der Gucht |
Production date: 1739

print

Title: Rembrandt's Sale |
Museum number: 1949,0411.475 |
Producer name: BIOG46906 Print made by:Robert Spence |
Production date: 1886-1918

print; newspaper/periodical

Title: A Sale at Christie's. |
Museum number: 1894,0102.75 |
Producer name: After:Thomas Walter WilsonBlock cut by:R Taylor & Co |
Production date: 1872-1894

print; frontispiece

Museum number: 1850,0810.120 |
Producer name: BIOG49372 Print made by:Gerard van der Gucht |
Production date: 1739

print; satirical print

Title: The Auction Room or Lewis Le Petit a Bankrupt |
Museum number: 1868,0808.4118 |
Producer name: Attributed to:John JunePublished by:William Hennell |
Production date: 1759 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; trade-card

Museum number: Heal,5.25 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1780 - 1820

print; satirical print

Title: A Lilliputian auction |
Museum number: 1990,1109.28 |
Producer name: Print made by:Isaac CruikshankAfter:George Moutard Woodward |
Production date: 1800-1805 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: A Macarony at a Sale of Pictures |
Museum number: J,5.61 |
Producer name: Print made by:Charles GrignionAfter:Michel Vincent Brandoin |
Production date: 1771 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: The funerall of Independency |
Museum number: 1868,0808.3666 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1741

print; trade-card

Museum number: Heal,5.19 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1780 - 1820

print; satirical print

Title: Auction of relics at Avignon. Repository of Arts |
Museum number: 1861,1012.337 |
Producer name: Print made by:Thomas RowlandsonPublished by:Ackermann |
Production date: 1818 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Abraham Langford |
Museum number: 1902,1011.7246 |
Producer name: Print made by:AnonymousPublished by:Edward Baldwyn |
Production date: 1770s |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; trade-card

Museum number: Heal,5.6 |
Producer name: BIOG225796 Printed by:Thomas Wood |
Production date: 1775

print; trade-card

Museum number: Heal,5.7 |
Producer name: BIOG84373 Print made by:Thomas Dodd |
Production date: 1780 - 1820

print; advertisement

Museum number: 2006,U.3366.1 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Published by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1787 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; trade-card

Museum number: Heal,5.23 |
Producer name: BIOG43180 Print made by:Samuel Rawle |
Production date: 1803

print; book-illustration

Title: Christie's Auction Room |
Museum number: 1899,0420.100 |
Producer name: Print made by:Thomas RowlandsonPrint made by:Augustus Charles Pugin |
Production date: 1808

print; satirical print

Title: A Catalogue of the Kitchin Furniture of John Bull Esqr leaving of House-keeping now Selling by Aucti |
Museum number: J,1.48 |
Producer name: After:Jefferyes Hamett O'NealePublished by:John Williams |
Production date: 1762 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: Marriage A-la-Mode, Plate IV Marriage A-la-Mode |
Museum number: 1861,1214.10 |
Producer name: After:William HogarthPrint made by:Cosmo Armstrong |
Production date: 1833 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: Marriage A-la-Mode, Plate IV Marriage A-la-Mode |
Museum number: 1880,0612.362 |
Producer name: After:William HogarthPublished by:Carington Bowles |
Production date: 1780-1793 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: Marriage A-la-Mode, Plate IV Marriage A-la-Mode |
Museum number: S,2.70 |
Producer name: After:William HogarthPrint made by:Simon François Ravenet I |
Production date: 1745 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print; book-illustration

Title: Marriage a la mode. Marriage A-la-Mode, Plate IV |
Museum number: K,58.95 |
Producer name: Print made by:Thomas CookAfter:William Hogarth |
Production date: 1808 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: Marriage A-la-Mode, Plate IV Marriage A-la-Mode |
Museum number: 1857,0228.67 |
Producer name: After:William HogarthPrint made by:Simon François Ravenet I |
Production date: 1745 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print; book-illustration

Title: Marriage A-la-Mode, Plate IV Hogarth. No. 4. |
Museum number: 1860,1208.127 |
Producer name: After:William HogarthPublished by:John Young |
Production date: 1823 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; advertisement

Museum number: C,2.410 |
Producer name: BIOG222352 Printed by:James Webb |
Production date: 1807 |
Production place: Printed in:Bedford (England)

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1978,U.2783 |
Producer name: Print made by:George CruikshankPublished by:George Bell |
Production date: 1845 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1978,U.2782 |
Producer name: Print made by:George CruikshankPublished by:George Bell |
Production date: 1845 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Museum number: 1908,0508.115 |
Producer name: Print made by:François CourboinAfter:Pierre Vidal |
Production date: 1898

print

Museum number: 1882,0311.3730 |
Producer name: BIOG19532 Print made by:Thomas Bewick |
Production date: 1770-1828

print; almanac

Title: What's in a name? |
Museum number: 1908,0414.764 |
Producer name: After:Charles KeeneBlock cut by:Joseph Swain |
Production date: 1880

print

Title: Gezicht van het Oude-Zyds-Heeren-Logement te Amste Vue de l'interieure de l'Oude-Zyds-Heeren-Logement |
Museum number: 1936,0716.1 |
Producer name: After:Hermanus Petrus SchoutePublished by:Pierre Fouquet Junior |
Production date: 1770-1783 |
Production place: Published in:Amsterdam (Netherlands)

print

Title: Horse Auction, Tattersalls' |
Museum number: 1880,1113.1969 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1845

print; trade-card

Museum number: Heal,5.18 |
Producer name: BIOG179696 Print made by:Christopher Towes |
Production date: 1790s |
Production place: Printed in:London (England)

print; trade-card

Museum number: Heal,5.4 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1780 - 1820

print

Title: A sale of prints at Sotheby's |
Museum number: 1953,0509.115 |
Producer name: BIOG47559 Print made by:William Strang |
Production date: 1889

print; trade-card

Museum number: Heal,5.31 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1805

print

Title: Crawley |
Museum number: 1862,0308.117 |
Producer name: Print made by:Thomas RowlandsonPrint made by:Samuel Alken |
Production date: 1790 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; trade-card

Museum number: Heal,5.29 |
Producer name: BIOG179696 Print made by:Christopher Towes |
Production date: 1780 - 1800 |
Production place: Printed in:London (England)

print; trade-card

Museum number: Heal,5.20 |
Producer name: BIOG48951 Printed by:Andrew W Tuer |
Production date: 1869

print; trade-card

Museum number: Heal,5.27 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1780 - 1820

print; trade-card

Museum number: Heal,5.22 |
Producer name: BIOG133198 Print made by:Garnett Terry |
Production date: 1781 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; trade-card

Museum number: Heal,5.24 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1780 - 1820

print

Title: Auction Mart, St. Bartholomew's Lane Metropolitan Improvements: London in the Nineteent |
Museum number: 1880,1113.3939 |
Producer name: Print made by:W WatkinsAfter:Thomas Hosmer Shepherd |
Production date: 1829 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; trade-card

Museum number: Heal,5.2 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1755

print; satirical print

Title: A Sale of Fox Hounds |
Museum number: 1985,0119.223 |
Producer name: BIOG31858 Published by:William Holland |
Production date: 1812 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; trade-card

Museum number: Heal,5.14 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1780 - 1820

print; trade-card

Museum number: Heal,5.17 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1780 - 1820

print

Title: Suisse - vente aux enchères Scènes cosmopolites |
Museum number: 1853,0709.538 |
Producer name: After:Édouard GirardetPrint made by:Claude Thielley |
Production date: 1853 |
Production place: Published in:Paris (France)Published in:Berlin (city)

print; book-illustration; illustrated book; satirical print

Title: Auction of relics at Avignon. |
Museum number: 1982,U.4510.13 |
Producer name: Print made by:Thomas RowlandsonPublished by:Ackermann |
Production date: 1818-1821 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; newspaper/periodical

Title: The last day of the sale |
Museum number: 1857,0613.1066 |
Producer name: After:George Bernard O'NeillBlock cut by:Horace Harral |
Production date: 1857 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print; ticket

Title: The Battle of the Pictures |
Museum number: 1868,0822.1566 |
Producer name: BIOG31785 Print made by:William Hogarth |
Production date: 1745 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; trade-card

Museum number: Heal,5.1 |
Producer name: BIOG193119 Printed by:H Fry |
Production date: 1780 - 1820 |
Production place: Printed in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Title: An auction |
Museum number: 1926,0410.93 |
Producer name: BIOG34205 Print made by:Alexej Iljich Kravchenko |
Production date: 1924

print; newspaper/periodical

Title: Christie's a Hundred Yars Ago: The Earl of Chesterfield and Mr. Christie. |
Museum number: 1894,0102.74 |
Producer name: BIOG51318 After:Thomas Walter Wilson |
Production date: 1872-1894

print

Title: Rembrandt's Sale |
Museum number: 1918,1019.9 |
Producer name: BIOG46906 Print made by:Robert Spence |
Production date: 1886-1918

print

Title: Abraham Langford |
Museum number: 1902,1011.7244 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1770s

print; satirical print

Title: The Macaroni Auctioneer Caricatures, Macaronies & Characters by sundry lad |
Museum number: 1895,0611.9 |
Producer name: BIOG24516 Published by:Matthew Darly |
Production date: 1772

print; satirical print

Title: The Auction; or Modern Conoisseurs |
Museum number: Y,4.550 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1771

print; satirical print

Title: [An Edinburgh auction] |
Museum number: 1935,0522.13.56 |
Producer name: BIOG33550 Print made by:John Kay |
Production date: 1785

print; satirical print

Museum number: 1872,0810.1013 |
Producer name: BIOG41880 Print made by:Lawrence Barnett Phillips |
Production date: 1857-1867