Material concerning the sale of Townshend family heirlooms

This material is held atPaul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art

  • Reference
    • GB 3010 WR/120
  • Dates of Creation
    • 8 Dec 1903-17 Mar 1928
  • Language of Material
    • English
  • Physical Description
    • 12 newspaper cuttings; 4 images; 2 sales catalogue extracts

Scope and Content

Includes:

-extract from a sales catalogue listing lot 285: an Inventory of Pictures at Rainham Hall

-copy of the following newspaper cutting: Roberts, W. 1903. The Townshend Heirlooms. Times, 10 December 1903

-copy of the following newspaper cutting: Roberts, W. 1904. The Townshend Pictures. Times, 7 March 1904; a newspaper cutting concerning The Townshend Heirlooms

-newspaper cutting concerning The Townshend Pictures.

-copy of the following newspaper cutting: 1903. Chancery Division Before Mr. Justice Farwell: The Townshend Marquisate. Daily Telegraph, 8 December 1903.

-black and white image of a portrait of Charles Townshend

-black and white image of a portrait of Mary Townshend, wife of General Cornwallis

-black and white image of a portrait of Mrs Townshend by Sir Godfrey Kneller, dated 1717

-black and white image of a portrait of Charles Townshend by Karl Hickel

-newspaper cutting concerning the Discovery of an Art Collection of miniatures, dated April 1910

-extract from a sales catalogue concerning lot 102: a letter to Colonel W.A. Washington regarding a contract for corn with General Lee

-newspaper cutting concerning The Marchioness Townshend: Presents her Husband with a Son and Heir

-newspaper cutting concerning £20, 000 in Heirlooms Lost: Two Pictures by Reynolds Mysteriously Disappear, dated 29 February 1904.

-newspaper cutting concerning Etheldreda, Vicountess Townshend, dated 29 May 1909

-newspaper cutting concerning The Washington Coat-of-Arms, dated 2 June 1911. Also includes newspaper cutting concerning The Washington Family and Purleigh Church

-newspaper cutting concerning Sir Robert Adair, Rolliad, and Anti-Jacobin, dated 1855

-newspaper cutting concerning the De Vere Family

-newspaper cutting concerning William Harcourt-Bath, dated 17 March 1928

16 items pasted into and 2 items removed from: Christie, Manson & Woods (1904) The Townshend Heirlooms comprising Important Pictures by Old Masters and Family Portraits from Raynham Hall, Norfolk [Auction catalogue]. London: Christie, Manson & Woods.

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