S. P. Avery's entire collection of American and foreign paintings in oil, watercolor drawings, objects of art, antiquities, &c. : will be sold at auction at the Somerville Art Gallery, no 82 Fifth Avenue, corner Fourteenth Street, by Robert Somerville, auctioneer ..
This is an 1871 auction catalogue issued in New York by the auctioneer Robert Somerville, listing S. P. Avery's collection of paintings, drawings, art objects and antiquities for sale at the Somerville Art Gallery on Fifth Avenue. The first picture is a profile head of Minerva Athene in a plumed helmet, drawn in a classical coin-like roundel, a device a designer might borrow for a seal or medallion. The second is a decorative tailpiece of a shield-like panel flanked by foliage, scrolls and rays of light, useful as a divider or ornament motif.
