I thought you might like to take a look at the e-catalogues for the Chatsworth and Ashdown Attic sales, both houses having connections to Jane Austen as I explained in my posts here (Chatsworth) and here (Ashdown), and which are now available to view online at the Sotheby’s website.
The Chatsworth e-catalogue is available here
and the Ashdown House e-catalogue is available here.
There has been tremendous press interest in the Chatsworth sale recently; it has been featured in magazines, newspapers and TV news programmes. The sale will take place next week and I promise to broadcast some of the results here.
Be warned, you can lose many, many hours on-line gazing at the marvellous and varied contents. My imaginary bid list is getting longer by the day…
6 comments
September 30, 2010 at 2:33 pm
Raquel
Julie,
you are a bad, bad girl!
I must work, I can not stay on the internet all day long!
October 1, 2010 at 9:57 am
jfwakefield
LOL
I do apologise..but it cant be helped, you have to share these things!
October 1, 2010 at 5:56 pm
Cathy Allen
Oh goodness! I could spend days and days studying these catalogs! On the FIRST page of the Ashdown catalog I saw something I’ve been looking for the last couple of years… Not that I could afford it from Ashdown, but it is such fun to dream! Thank you for the links, my dear; I expect that many a break will be enlivened for me by your instigation. Thank you ever so much,
CEA
October 2, 2010 at 3:49 pm
jfwakefield
I confess I’ve ordered the Ashdown catalogue as the Stuarts are one of my passions and Elizabeth of Bohemia has always intrigued me. You really can lose hours looking at the catalogues on on-line, can’t you?
October 4, 2010 at 11:09 am
imogen88
Wow~!
October 7, 2010 at 1:06 pm
jfwakefield
Wow encore!