Sales catalogue 467: Maggs Bros

Date:
1925
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/37
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 467: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Portraits. [204] LYON (Hart, 1721-1800). Nearly whole length, seated, fur cap and gown. Mezzotint by E. Fisher after J. Turner. size 16? by 114 mches, with margins, “C. 1760. £3 3s Chief Rabbi of the London Congregation of German and Polish Jews, 1757-63; subsequently Rabbi of Halberstadt, Mannheim, and Berlin. [205] REUTER (Baron Paul Julius, b. 1818). ‘** Telegrams.”? Full length, standing, right hand placed inside coat. ; Very clever water-colour drawing by Delfico. December 14, 1872. Size 7+ by 12 inches. £7 10s Connected with Electric Telegraph system from the earliest establishment ; established at Aix-la-Chapelle the first centre of an organization for collecting and transmiting telegraph news; was the first to publish the most important news during the Civil War in America and Franco-Austrian War; obtained, in 1865, a concession for the construction of a submarine telegraph line between England and Germany. [206] COSTA (Sir Michael, 1810-1884). ‘ Orchestration.” Nearly full length, seated at organ, left hand holding open music book, baton in right hand. Very clever water-colour drawing by CG. Lyall. July 6th, 1872. Size 7. by 12 mehes. £8 8s Composer for Italian Theatres; employed at King’s Theatre reforming the Orchestra, 1832, and producing four ballets and two operas, 1831-44; director of Music at Covent Garden Theatre from 1846; conductor of the Philharmonic Concerts, 1847-54 ; the festivals at Birmingham, 1849-79 ; ‘and Leeds, 1874-80; and Handel Festivals, 1857-77. [207] BENEDICT (Sir Julius, 1804-1885). ‘* Sweet Sounds.”’ Full length, standing, hands clasped in front, roll of music under left arm. Very clever water-colour drawing ae L. Ward (Spy), September 27 Wied Be Size 62 by 11d inches. £6 6s Musician ; conductor at Karnthnertor Theatre, Vienna, 1832-5, and at San Carlo and Fondo Theatres, Naples, 1825-35, conducted series ‘of Italian comic operas at Lyceum, 1836; conducted English operas, Drury Lane. tii
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