Catalogue of the Snedecor collection of paintings and water color drawings : containing recent and choice works of the French, English and American schools
An 1873 auction catalogue issued in New York by the auctioneer Robert Somerville, listing paintings and watercolours from the John Snedecor collection of French, English and American schools. The four pictures shown are not paintings but ornamental printer's devices: a horizontal band of foliage with a dragon-like creature, a scrolled strapwork panel, a row of flowers with a thistle and clover, and a griffin perched beside a blossom on a scroll, all in plain black line on cream paper. A designer could draw on them for borders, dividers and chapter-opening ornaments in a period style.
