Exbury House: Le Goût Rothschild  - 5th October 2022

Lot 28

MORGAN (JOHN PIERPOINT 1837-1913)

Estimate £400 - £600 | Hammer £750

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Description

MORGAN (JOHN PIERPOINT 1837-1913)

PICTURES IN THE COLLECTION OF J. PIERPONT MORGAN

at Princes Gate & Dover House, London, two volumes, English School and Dutch & Flemish, French, Italian and Spanish, with an introduction by T. Humphrey Ward and Biographical and Descriptive Notes by W. Roberts, Privately Printed, London, 1907, full brown Morocco with gilt tooled decoration to the covers, green watered silk to inside covers and end pages, gilt top edges (2)

Provenance

Alfred de Rothschild (1842-1918) the Entrance Hall, Halton House, Buckinghamshire

Lionel de Rothschild (1882-1942)

Edmund de Rothschild (1916-2009)

The Trustees of Exbury House

Literature

Rothschild Archive, London, Manuscript: 000/174/C/3, Christie, Manson & Woods Probate Valuation of 'The Estate of Alfred C. de Rothschild, Esq. C.V.O. Deceased, Halton House Tring'. 1918. Listed as 'Morgan Collection of Pictures, 4 vol, £80.0.0'