Enclosure: List of Copies of Paintings and Other Works for a Lottery, 19 June 1805
Enclosure: List of Copies of Paintings and
Other Works for a Lottery
having received from a celebrated Artist in Swizerland a few Copies from original paintings of the best Masters, executed in a new Manner of his own inventing, so true, that it is allmost impossible, to distinguish the one from the other—and wishing, to make them generally known to the Lovers of the Arts—It is proposed, as the best means of distribution, to dispose of them in a Lotterie, consisting of 4 pairs of these pictures—neatly framed—
| 1st. Lot | one pair, after originals of | Both & Dujardin | 150 | Doll. | ||||||
| 2 | ditto | Loutherbourg | 140 | |||||||
| 3 | ditto | Claude Lorrain | 150 | |||||||
| 4 | ditto | Van Berghem | 80 | |||||||
| to which will be added: | ||||||||||
| 5 | a Telescope, when drawn, measuring 16 feets—(from Swizerland) | 100 | ||||||||
| 6 | one Set of the admired nat. history of Perroquets, vel. pap—in 4to.—with text | 140 | ||||||||
| 7 | the Likewise admired (new) botanic-work by Duhamel, colored—vel. pap. 3 Vol. in folio | 110 | ||||||||
| 8 to 24 | inclusive—Making 17 Chances of said Pictures of Perroquets | 230 | ||||||||
| in folio—viz: | 2 of | 10 | peices each |  |
96 pieces. | |||||
| 2 | 8 | |||||||||
| 4 | 6 | |||||||||
| 9. | 4 | 1100 | ||||||||
| 25 | The Menagerie of Paris, 1 V. in fol. Engrav—with Text | 20 | ||||||||
| 26 | one pair of Engrav. by a German Artist of acknowledged talents (Kolb)—the Bachanal, and the Dance, with an other Engrav, the Oack of Palemon by Gessner | 16 | ||||||||
| 27 | the same 2 former Engrav—with 4 other Landscapes by Kolb, and the Children of Netscher, painted by Netscher, engr. by Geyser | 15 | ||||||||
| 28, 29 & 30—three Sets of 3 Engrav. by Kolb: the Going by Water, the Young Shepherd, and the Conversation—10 each | 30 | |||||||||
| 31, 32 & 33—three Sets of 2 Engrav. by the Same autor: the Baders, and the Shepherd resting near his flock—10 each | 30 | |||||||||
| 34, 35 & 36—three Sets of 3 Engrav. by the Same hand: the hunting of Stag, the hunting of Lion, and the fall of the damned—10 each | 30 | . | ||||||||
| 1241 | . | |||||||||
the whole will require 110 Subscribers at 10 Doll. each, so that there will be one pièce to every three tickets.
As soon as the Number shall be Compleated, the place and time of the execution of this Lotterie will be announced.
NB. Mr. Robert Gilmor d’ici a eu la Complaisance de diriger l’encadrement des tableaux d’apres le Gout d’ici et a pris 3 billets avant de partir au Niagara.
MS (DLC: TJ Papers, 150:26243); undated; in Reibelt’s hand.
Van Berghem: probably a reference to Nicolaes Berchem, a major Dutch painter of the seventeenth century (Jane Turner, ed., Dictionary of Art, 34 vols. [New York, 1996], 3:757-60).
botanic-work: probably a recently published three-volume edition of Traité des arbres et arbustes que l’on cultive en France en pleine terre, by Henri Louis Duhamel de Monceau (William Fleischer, Annuaire de la librairie [Paris, 1802], 271). The Menagerie of Paris was almost certainly the folio volume of prints of animals of France’s natural history museum, published in 1801 as La ménagerie du Muséum national d’histoire naturelle, by Étienne de Lacépède and Georges Cuvier.
Robert Gilmor: that is, “of this place was kind enough to oversee the picture framing in accordance with local tastes and bought three tickets before leaving for Niagara.”