Posted on behalf of Joan Stahl. Replies to her please
Many thanks


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From: Joan Stahl [mailto:[log in to unmask]] 
Sent: 25 May 2005 11:49
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Dear Colleagues,

One of the faculty in University of Maryland's (United States)Art History
Department is trying to locate two catalogs.  I have been unsuccessful in
tracking these down.  I have tried all the usual bibliographic suspects and
consulted online catalogs for various museums and libraries in Great
Britain.  I suspect these are small publications and may be treated as
ephemera that have not been catalogued. In any event, I am appealing to the
collective knowledge of ARLIS /UK + Ireland members.  The following is the
professor's description of what he is seeking:

" Antoine Dubost ran an announcement on the front page of 'The Morning
Chronicle' of London, a weekly, starting on May 2, 1807, and continuing with
slight variations, for two months, as follows: "The Exhibition of the
Historical Paintings of Damocles, Venus and Adonis, &c. &c by Mr. A. Dubost,
will open on Monday next at his house, no. 65 Pall-mall, from Nine in the
Morning till Dusk -- Admittance 1 s -- Catalogues included."

The professor saw the announcements at Library of Congress, microfilm 2628.

The other catalogue is also cited in "The Morning Chronicle," May 28, 1810,
p. 1: "Exhibition of an extensive View of Hyde Park, on a Sunday, executed
upon a scale of two hundred feet, by Mr. Dubost, author of the picture of
Damocles, in which are introduced a correct likeness of the distinguished
frequenters of that fashionable resort, with the carriages and equipages of
most of the Nobility, and Members of the Whip Club; also a Collection of
some other Pictures, 65, Pall Mall. Admission 2s 6d. Catalogue 6d."

Please reply to me and not the list.

Joan Stahl
Branch Manager, Art & Architecture Libraries
University of Maryland
2213 Art-Sociology Building
College Park, MD 20742
Tel.: 301-405-9065
Fax: 301-314-9725
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