Galerie de Florence: Large folio album containing 8 engravings after Peter Paul Rubens, Annibale Carracci and other and related single text sheets to each engraving, bound as a volume and inscribed to pastedown for 'George Augusta Hill, Bruxelles, 1820', the album 35.5cm x 52.5cm
Provenance:Ombersley Court, Worcestershire
Footnote:Lord George Augusta Hill (9 December 1801 – 6 April 1879) was an Anglo-Irish military officer, politician and landowner. Hill was the posthumous son of the 2nd Marquess of Downshire and his wife Mary, Marchioness of Downshire, granddaughter of the 1st Baron Sandys.
Lord George was also the grandfather of the 6th Baron Sandys. He lived in Brussels for some time, as a companion to his older brother Lord Augustus Hill during his illness.
Chorley’s Auctioneers is to offer The Ombersley Court Library collected by the English aristocratic family of Sandys across five centuries.
Proceeds of the sale will will be donated to the Hartlebury Castle Preservation Trust (Charity 1127871).
Hartlebury Castle is a historic Worcestershire estate first given to Bishop Aelhun in 855AD. Home of the Bishops of Worcester until 2007. it has a longstanding connection with the Sandys family throughout its history.
Sold for £170
Galerie de Florence: Large folio album containing 8 engravings after Peter Paul Rubens, Annibale Carracci and other and related single text sheets to each engraving, bound as a volume and inscribed to pastedown for 'George Augusta Hill, Bruxelles, 1820', the album 35.5cm x 52.5cm
Ombersley Court, Worcestershire
Lord George Augusta Hill (9 December 1801 – 6 April 1879) was an Anglo-Irish military officer, politician and landowner. Hill was the posthumous son of the 2nd Marquess of Downshire and his wife Mary, Marchioness of Downshire, granddaughter of the 1st Baron Sandys.
Lord George was also the grandfather of the 6th Baron Sandys. He lived in Brussels for some time, as a companion to his older brother Lord Augustus Hill during his illness.
THE OMBERSLEY COURT LIBRARY
Chorley’s Auctioneers is to offer The Ombersley Court Library collected by the English aristocratic family of Sandys across five centuries.
Proceeds of the sale will will be donated to the Hartlebury Castle Preservation Trust (Charity 1127871).
Hartlebury Castle is a historic Worcestershire estate first given to Bishop Aelhun in 855AD. Home of the Bishops of Worcester until 2007. it has a longstanding connection with the Sandys family throughout its history.
Auction: The September Auctions 2024, 17th Sep, 2024
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