25th Aug, 2026 10:00

The Collectors Auction – The 19th Century Sale

 
Lot 73
 

73

John Sell Cotman (1782-1842) [illustrator] "A Narrative of the Grand Festival, at Yarmouth, on Tuesday, the 19th of April, 1814"

Sold for £250
Estimated at £100 - £200


 

John Sell Cotman (1782-1842) [illustrator] "A Narrative of the Grand Festival, at Yarmouth, on Tuesday, the 19th of April, 1814", "with an Appendix, Containing Copies of all the Handbills which were Published on the Occasion; a List of the Subscribers; and an Account of the Expenditure", Published J. Keymer, King Street, Yarmouth, 1814. A subscriber's edition. Folding "Plan of the Tables" engraved by Cotman. Plus additional folding plates of "the Funeral pile of the Buonapartean dynasty" and Cotman's first softground etching "Grand Bonfire at Yarmouth Festival, April 19th 1814". Original boards and pink label. Neat manuscript signature of "W[illiam] Hazard" (a Yarmouth auctioneer who presided over Table 3 at the feast). Exhibited:- Sir John Soane's Museum 2014. See Cat 2.1.

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