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Trades Index to Auction Catalogs

"Search an online index (1983–1999) of drawings and paintings of 18th- and early 19th-century objects found in Sotheby's and Christie's catalogs. The objects may be of particular interest to Colonial Williamsburg's tradespeople.

Title Catalog Date Catalog Name Photocopy No.
Horses, pigs and chickens in a farmyard. 11/12/1999 Christie's C 11-1999 #95
Racehorses watering at a trough 5/27/1999 Christie's C 5-1999 #7
'Sir Oliver', a dark bay saddled hunter, and 'Molly Splash', a light bay saddled hunter, in looseboxes 4/18/1986 Christie's C 4-1986 #2
Stable interior with a stable lad and two bay hunters 5/25/1988 Sotheby's S 5-1988 #350
Evening in the Farmyard 7/11/1990 Sotheby's/Drawings & Watercolours S 7-1990 #57
The Village Smithy 4/14/1994 Sotheby's S 4-1994 #537
The hay cart; and children playing 7/24/1986 Christie's C 7-1986 #334
A Hay Wagon 1/26/1987 Sotheby's S 1-1987 #88
The midday rest 5/28/1999 Christie's C 5-1999 #58
Cows by a Hay Wain 7/11/1991 Sotheby's S 7-1991 #124
A tethered Donkey, a sheep and poultry in a barn. 7/12/1991 Christie's C 7-1991 #176
Figures and cattle in a meadow 11/6/1990 Sotheby's S 11-1990 #279
Boston in 1779, with the 24-gun U.S. naval sloop the 'Boston', a gun brig, and other shipping in the harbour, figures with oxen and a cart and fishermen in the foreground 10/17/1986 Christie's C 10-1986 #61
A Shepherd herding his Flock into a Pen 11/25/1986 Christie's C 11-1986 #3
A Devonshire Bull 7/4/1984 Sotheby's S 7-1984 #300
A poodle with a stick in a landscape 4/18/1986 Christie's C 4-1986 #12
Chepstow Castle 11/12/1996 Christie's C 11-1996 #33
Sheep Shearing 7/10/1985 Sotheby's S 7-1985 #88
Fishermen landing their Catch 4/8/1997 Christie's C 4-1997 #76
Fisherfolk on the Seashore 11/6/1997 Christie's C 11-1997 #92
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