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Going, going, gone: art auction catalogues from 19th-century Canada

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 June 2016

Jonathan Franklin
Jonathan Franklin*
Affiliation:
National Gallery of Canada, 380 Sussex Drive, PO Box 427, Station A, Ottawa, Ontario, KIN 9N4, Canada
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Abstract

The art auction trade flourished in Canada as the 19th century progressed, pitting local artists against importers of European art; yet today there are relatively few preserved catalogues to show for all this activity. The National Gallery of Canada Library has been documenting the survivors, creating records in the SCIPIO database and arranging for microfilming. Individual lots have also been indexed (some of the idiosyncracies of auction catalogue entries are described below) and a Library Occasional Paper is to be published with a bibliographical listing and historical essay on the art auction in 19th-century Canada.

Type
Research Article
Information
Art Libraries Journal , Volume 24 , Issue 4 , 1999 , pp. 44 - 48
Copyright
Copyright © The Art Libraries Society 1999

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