'Arenas of connoisseurship. Auctioning art in later Stuart England' in D Ormrod & M North (eds), Art Markets in Europe, 1400-1800

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Author(s) Cowan, Brian W
Publication type Chapter
Year published 1998
Pages pp153-66
Publisher Ashgate Publishing
Place Published Aldershot

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Name British Library
City London
County Greater London
Country England
Postcode NW1 2DB
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Deals with the picture auction per se, the first of which was then thought to have occurred in England in 1674. Has sections: 1] 'Origins and obstacle.- the emergence of English auctions'; 'Taste on display - the etiquette of auctions'