B.'s caricatures and a unique set of portraits of former speakers to the House of Commons, the chairs of Thackeray and Dickens respectively to the Travellers' Club and the Athenaeum, Nelson's sword to the United Service Club, the manuscript of Gray's Elegy to Eton College Library, and the duke of Marlborough's sword to the Scots Guards at St James's Palace.īyron’s estranged wife Lady Annabella Noel Byron, Baroness Wentworth (1792 – 1860), died in May 1860, and was succeeded in the baronetcy by Byron King-Noel, 12th Baron Wentworth, Viscount Ockham (1836 – 1862), who died in September 1862, four months before the sale of the “remaining Libray of Lady Noel Byron” by Puttick & Simpson. Sir William Augustus Fraser (1826–1898) was a politician, author and collector of curiosities as well as bequeathing the sofa to the Garrick he also left a splendid collection of Gillray's caricatures to the House of Lords, a similar collection of H. No other record of the sale has so far been found. Lot 1002 was described as “A costly Spanish mahogany bookcase in 3 divisions, the upper part enclosed by plate glass doors, the lower portioned by panelled doors, carved caps, etc…” That the plaque records the sofa as lot 1002x suggests it was a late addition to the sale and not included in the catalogue, but inserted after the rest of the furniture. 5th, 1863, and two following days.”Ĭorrespondence with the Grolier Club Library has confirmed that the only items of furniture in this sale were lots 998-1002 (out of a total of 1006): all were book cases. at their new and very spacious premises, on Monday, Jan. : which will be sold by auction, by Messrs.
“Catalogue of the library of a gentleman, removed from Ireland, also the remaining library of the late Lady Noel Byron : together comprising an excellent selection of works by standard writers, chiefly in the English language, and foreign classic authors, books of prints, and works of art, numerous books relating to Ireland, works by and relating to the Quakers, etc. This was the third and final day of a Puttick & Simpson sale that had begun on January 5 1863, a catalogue of which survives today in the Grolier Club Library, New York: Author of "THE DREAM" / when he died at MISSOLONGHI. "This sofa / was in the room of / GEORGE GORDON, 6TH. William Augustus Fraser bought the sofa on 7 January 1863, and this is recorded on the plaque attached to the sofa: The sofa was bequeathed to the Garrick Club by Sir William Augustus Fraser Bart, 1899 and this is recorded in the Garrick Club Gift Book as Gift 268 "Sofa that was in the room of George Gordon Lord Byron when he died as Missolonghi". similar sofas are recorded in three sales by Christies: "Furniture, Clocks, Carpets, Sculpture and Works of Art" Amsterdam, lot 425 "The House Sale" New York, Rockefeller Center 29/11- lot 634 "Le Goût Steinitz, III" lot 376.
A Russian mahogany canape, siad to have come from the room at at Missolonghi in Greece where Lord Byron died on 19th April 1824.
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