Illustrated catalogue of a highly important collection of master works by distinguished painters of the French, early English, Dutch and Flemish schools : belonging to Dr. E.M. Harris, Providence, Edward Holbrook and T.J. Blakeslee, New York : to be sold at absolute public sale at Chickering Hall on ... April 13th and 14th ... the paintings will be on exhibition day and evening at the American Art Galleries ... April 7th until April 13th, inclusive
This 1899 auction catalogue from the American Art Association in New York offers paintings from the collections of Dr. E.M. Harris, Edward Holbrook and T.J. Blakeslee for sale at Chickering Hall, aimed at private collectors and dealers. Its plates are black-and-white halftone reproductions of French, early English, Dutch and Flemish paintings, showing a genre group of women in dark dress with flowers, a dark-gowned female portrait bust, a horseman with a crowd, and a figure in a quarry, so a designer might take tonal contrast, dark-ground compositions and period dress cues from them.
