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Red-chalk drawing of a dog

Sanguine study of a dog gnawing, on an old mount in a gilt frame. Mat label reads “JEAN BAPTISTE OUDRY 1686–1755.”

Red-chalk drawing, “Die Bibelleserin”

Woman reading the Bible; old German collection mat labeled “NICHOLAS MAES (1632–1693).”

Classical female profile head

Graphite / black chalk, neoclassical, on an irregular trimmed sheet; double-matted, modest gilt frame. Unsigned.

Old Master–style temple interior

Presentation-in-the-Temple type scene, oil; dark, heavy craquelure, ornate gilt frame. Unsigned on front.

Orientalist scene — horses at a fountain

Arab figure with horses at a fountain, oil, ornate gilt frame; appears signed in the lower area (illegible in photograph).

View of Florence

The Duomo and Giotto’s campanile seen through umbrella pines, oil; fine Barbizon-like handling, ornate gilt/gesso frame.

“Boppard on the Rhine”

Twin-spired church town view, oil. Verso inscriptions: “Boppard on the Rhine, C.F. Schumacher(?) 1878” and, in pencil, “Charles J. Schumacher, 20th Cent. Germ.”

Moonlit marine nocturne

Figures and boats under moonlight, small oil, gilt frame.

Marine — vessel in heavy seas

Oil, ornate gilt frame.

Folk scene — cattle watering at a pond

Oil, gilt frame; primitive / naive American-school character.

Mountain-lake landscape

Oil, heavy craquelure, gilt frame.

Portrait of a lady with pendant necklace

Oil, 19th century, gilt frame. Bust-length, in an off-the-shoulder gown with dark fur wrap; she wears a delicate link necklace with an ornate drop pendant.

Profile study of a bearded man in a hat

Small oil sketch of quality, Arts-and-Crafts gilt frame.

Autumn lake-road landscape

Watercolor, signed “W. Blackwood.”

Birch-lined road with church spires

Watercolor / gouache, signed (signature reads like “Splon / Spohn / Spahn”).

Dutch harbor scene

Tricolor flags, oil, signed lower right (begins “D. …”).

Small cottage landscape

Matted winter/autumn scene, red-orange mat, gilt frame.

Neoclassical vignette — W. von Winterfeldt, 1794

Small hand-colored vignette: woman at an altar with children, in a decorative cartouche. Accompanying handwritten slip: “Painting by W. von Winterfeldt originally in album of my great-grandmother Schultze, Berlin Germany, painted for her by the artist on June 28, 1794 … given to Mrs. Mabel L. Watts.”

Engraving — “Thomas Sydenham M.D.”

J. Houbraken, “Impensis J. & P. Knapton Londini 1747,” hand-colored.

Engraving — “Sir Samuel Garth M.D.”

Houbraken, Knapton 1748, hand-colored; “In the Collection of Jacob Tonson.”

Engraving — Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor

Dutch text: “Rudolphus de II by der gratien Gods Rooms Keyser…”; 17th-century type.

Engraving — Charles V of Lorraine

“CAROLUS V. D.G. Dux Lotharingiae et Barri…,” 17th century.

Engraving — Michael Drayton

“Effigies Michaelis Drayton… MDCXIII,” published W. Richardson, York House, 31 Strand, September 1796.

Engraving — Archbishop William Laud

After Van Dyck.

Verso label — Wadsworth, Howland & Co., Boston

Boston art-supplier stencil found on the back of one canvas (“…Importers… French, German and American artists’ … oil and water colors… 82 & 84 Washington St., Boston”) with chalk note “(b.1865 – France?)” — dates that canvas to roughly 1880s–1900s Boston retail.

Uncle Tom’s Cabin — Jewett, 1852, two volumes

Boston: John P. Jewett / Cleveland: Jewett, Proctor & Worthington, 1852 — first-edition-year printing, Vols I & II. Rebound in later plain dark pebbled morocco with gilt spines; title pages foxed/stained but complete.

Boswell’s Life of Johnson — Navarre Society, 1924

London, three volumes, red cloth gilt.

Oscar Wilde — four-volume set

Poems / Plays / Prose / Essays; pink cloth with leather labels. The Prose volume carries the H.S. Nichols 1916 facsimile “Indorsement” (Cosmopolitan Library).

The Life of Sir Walter Ralegh — Edwards, 1868

Macmillan; half red morocco with marbled boards (Vol. I photographed).

Dostoevsky, The Idiot — Macmillan, 1913

Constance Garnett translation, first US Garnett printing year, in a fine full red morocco binding with gilt dentelles and marbled endpapers; spine dated 1913.

Bookshelf — approximately 30 volumes

Includes Boswell’s Tour to the Hebrides (2 vols), Hume’s History of England Vol. III, Frank Harris’s Oscar Wilde (2 vols), “Seasonable Thoughts” spine-dated 1743 in full old calf (likely Charles Chauncy, Boston 1743), Hawthorne’s The Marble Faun (2 vols), The Bab Ballads, Milton, Burns, and more.

Chippendale-style carved armchair

Pierced interlaced splat with carved acanthus/feather detail, shaped crest, fluted stiles, shell-carved seat rail, cabriole legs, ball-and-claw feet; red/gold striped damask slip seat.

Chippendale-style side chair

Matching(?) side chair — same splat pattern and upholstery as the armchair.

Queen Anne / George II–style side chair

Yellow damask, upholstered back (back panel torn, stuffing exposed), carved crest, cabriole legs.

Pair of brass two-arm wall sconces

Porcelain part-dinner service

Hand-painted floral sprays with gilt rims: covered tureen, shaped serving dishes with rose-garland borders, scalloped platters, coffee pot, covered sugar, and stacks of plates. A small shelf clock, visible at right in both photographs, is not part of the service.

Pair of Paris porcelain vases, with banded tureen

Pair of Old Paris–style flower vases, rococo-molded with scrolled gilt handles, fan mouths, and hand-painted floral panels; between them a covered tureen with magenta and gilt banding. Photographed atop the crest of the secretary bookcase (F07).

Federal-style mahogany secretary bookcase

Scrolled pediment with brass rosettes, eagle-and-ball ornament, and corner ball finials; two arched glazed doors over two short drawers; fold-out writing surface above three long graduated drawers; turned three-quarter columns, turned feet.

Louis XV-style carved petite commode

Serpentine two-drawer commode with shell-and-scroll carving, shaped apron, cabriole legs, and a black marble (or marbleized) top with white veining. Also visible at left in the fauteuil detail photograph (F11).

Terracotta garden urn after the Warwick Vase

Large campana-form urn with entwined vine handles, bearded masks, and vine-and-grape relief band, on a paneled square terracotta pedestal. Photographed outdoors, planted.

Terracotta campana garden urn

Egg-and-dart everted rim over a body with floral-rosette and scrolling-foliage relief, twin handles, gadrooned lower body, fluted socle on square base. Photographed outdoors, planted.

Pair of Louis XVI-style fauteuils

Oval medallion backs, padded arms, carved and painted frames with brass nailhead trim, upholstered in blue-and-gold damask. The bronzed dog-head sculpture, small clock, and marble-top stand in the pair photograph are incidental.