"This collection, partly purchased on the Continent from the Borghese, Colonna, Albani, and other palaces, and partly selected from celebrated cabinets in this country, ... comprises some one pure and first-rate specimen of almost every distinguished master in the Florentine, Roman, Venetian, Lombard, and Bolognese schools ..."

Lugt, 8005.

Getty Provenance Index Databases, viewed July 24, 2012, Description of sale catalog Br-889.

Date of sale: May 25, 1811.

Place of sale: London.

Library's copy 1 annotated in brown ink with all prices, indicating which lots were sold and which bought in, as well as the buyer of lot 89 and a few notes. Library's copy 1 bound with: Christie, James. A catalogue of a valuable assemblage of pictures, sold by order of the assignees of Mr. Michael Bryan. [London] : Mr.Christie, 1810. This is the 17th catalog bound in a volume of 36 catalogs. In ms. in brown ink on verso of front free endpaper: From the collection of William Seguier Esq. decd. 1844. Gilt binder's title on spine: Catalogue of pictures, 1810 to 1827.

Library's copy 2 annotated in brown ink with most prices; a few notes in pencil.