Deasr Colleagues,
One of the faculty in University of Maryland's Art History Department is
trying to locate two catalogs. I have been unsuccessful in tracking
these down. I have tried all the usual bibliographic suspects and
consulted online catalogs for various museums and libraries in Great
Britain. I suspect these are small publications and may be treated as
ephemera that have not been catalogued. In any event, I am appealing to
the collective knowledge of ARLIS members. The following is the
professor's description of what he is seeking:
" Antoine Dubost ran an announcement on the front page of 'The Morning
Chronicle' of London, a weekly, starting on May 2, 1807, and continuing
with slight variations, for two months, as follows: "The Exhibition of
the Historical Paintings of Damocles, Venus and Adonis, &c. &c by Mr. A.
Dubost, will open on Monday next at his house, no. 65 Pall-mall, from
Nine in the Morning till Dusk -- Admittance 1 s -- Catalogues included."
I saw the announcements at L.C. microfilm 2628.
The other catalogue is also cited in "The Morning Chronicle," May 28,
1810, p. 1: "Exhibition of an extensive View of Hyde Park, on a Sunday,
executed upon a scale of two hundred feet, by Mr. Dubost, author of the
picture of Damocles, in which are introduced a correct likeness of the
distinguished frequenters of that fashionable resort, with the carriages
and equipages of most of the Nobility, and Members of the Whip Club;
also a Collection of some other Pictures, 65, Pall Mall. Admission 2s
6d. Catalogue 6d."
Please reply to me and not the list.
Joan
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Joan Stahl
Branch Manager, Art & Architecture Libraries
University of Maryland
2213 Art-Sociology Building
College Park, MD 20742
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