CATALOGUE O F PICTURES, CONSISTING OF PORTRAITS, LANDSCAPES, SEA-PIECES, ARCHITECTURE, FLOWERS, FRUITS, ANIMALS, HISTORIES, OF THE LATE RICHARD MEAD, M. D. Sold by Auiflion on March 20, 21, and 22, M.DCC.LIV. - \ , --■4 LONDON, Printed in the Year m. dcc.lv. ^^•73-707 CATALOGUE OF THE E PICTURES of the late Dr. M E A D. PORTRAITS. RASMUS, a fmall half-length on board, by Hans ' //p cf Holbein. "f E TENEBRIS CLARVM DOCTRINAE ATTOLLERE LVMEN, QVI FELIX POTVIT PRIMVS ERASMVS ERAT. This pi£lure was painted by Holbein when Erafmus returned from England, who lent it over as a prefent to his friend Sir Thomas More : Sir Thomas was fo pleafed with the perform- ance, that he procured the artift to come over to England, and employed him a long time privately in his houfe. This pidurc was in the Arundel colledlion, and has the date 1523 upon it. N. B. The ^^^ ■^^^?'!^0^'^This is a capital pifture by Titian, who was an intimate friend ^^Y^ ^^ Vefalius, and drew froiu the life Anatomical defigns, which ^'^^^y.y itvere engraved for his book of Anatomy, of which a fmall " put curious colkdion was pprchafed by Dr. Mead. tr. \^^ A _| SIR FRANCIS DRAKE, a very fmall head on )oard. >^^^^i^ ^cT^ 'vi — MARGARET Duchefs of Parma, Governefs of the [Netherlands, a very fmall head on copper. ^1 — H U G O G R O T I U S, by Cornelius Janfen. VNICVS IMVfENSVM QVl CEPIT MENTE CAPACI DOCTRINARVM ORB,EM. GROTLVS HWC^ FVIT. y SIR THEODORE MAYERNE Phyficlan to King Jam^es and King Charles the Firfl, half length, a ca- pital pidlure by Rubens. This is engraved in mezzotinto by /a - -VJ^Z-^J^T^^^ <-^4t,7ZAZ^ THOMAS HOWARDEARL OF ARUNDEL, by Rubens. MARMORA, ARVNDELIAE COMITI QVAE PATR.IA DEBET, PRISCI AEVI ET LAVDIS SVNT MONVMENTA SVAE. vr^s^-'-'^A 79 /f / ^/2 9 // /n ^ This is engraved by Houbrakm, ampng the Heads of illuftrious Perfons of Great Britain. ^-fJ t^t^:> y v^ iv, copied iron hyUr.Dahl. <^2> yy^c^ ^ ^ REMBRANDT, painted by himfelf. ^^^J^^^a ^^ OLIVER CROMWELL, by /rWirr.^'-^^ M^ SAMUEL BUTLER, Author of Hudibrafs, ^ fmall half length by Zoeft, engraved by Mr. Vertue for the pdition of his works publilhed by Dr. Grey. ^"^/^.-.^j^^,^^. M^ THOMAS HOBBES, a fmall head. o^^W.. » ^' WILLIAM >9e. ( V ) WILLIAM HARVEY, M. D. a half length by ^^ Bemmel. HARVEII MAGNVM NOMEN LAVDESQVE MANEBVNT, SANGVIS DVM IN GYROS ITQVE REDITQ^^E SVOS. \ This is engraved by Houbraken amonc the Heads of illuftrious Perfons of Great Britain. w^<^ CZ^^y^^ ^2>? /^^/^^*^- INIGO JONES, a fmall portrait fupported by a Female Figure reprefenting A rchitedlure, by yiwKent.^'ty^^. ADMIRAL SPRAGGE, \yy Mx , Greenhill. ^-^ ROBERT BOYLE,ESC^ half length by Kerfehoom, engraved by Mr. Vertue among the goUeftion of Heads of illuftrious Perfons of Great Britain. -^ /V^^/^£^ v^^^^^y^ — ^i-^ / GRAEVIUS, by Hoet. Dr. Mead ftudidL,{pme time y :der this Profeffor at Utrecht. ^^^r/z^^'^A^o^'^*^^^^'^ /s\y 3^6 under GRAEVI, ROMANAE LINGVAE CLARISSIME VINDEX, IPSE TVO VELLET TVLLlVS ORE LOC^'l. Mr. JOHN RAY, Author of thofe valuable treatifes \ S & on the works of Nature, by Mrs. Beak, v.^J^ ^^>"^o^^>-«^ )^X^^^, ARCHIBALD PiTCAIRN, M. D. by Sir 7o/^« ie Medina. ^ v^r- .^^ SCIRE POTESTATES HERBARVM, ET TANGERE PLECTRVM, PITCAIRNO PHOEBVS MVNERA MAGNA DEDIT. F R A N S H A L S, the Painter, by himfelf. ^/^ s s /J /4/ -j/m \ CARDINAL DADA, Nuntio from the Pope to • IKing James the Second, by Sir Godfrey Kneller. ^^"^t^- /^2.c^i^ M /o C M^. JOHN LOCKE, after a picture by Sir G^^^y \y\ Kneller ; who alfo painted the feven following Portraits^ w^^ O -/S c -t.-^. HENRY ALDRICH, D. D. Dean of Chrillchurch. ^ A WALTER CHARLTON. M. D. Author of feve- ral books relating to natural hiftory. ^^J^ ^^^^^^^ . ^.^O^^^-^^'H- DOCTRINA OR-NAVIT MEDICAM CHARLTONIVS ARTEM. VIS ANIMI SENIO IVSSIT INESSE DECVS. WILLIAM COLE, M D.c^" ^^--«^^5r-^-^ ^ EDMUND 8r\/S 6 c? /^ 3/ T ^ ^ ^ ( vi ) ^ ^y^/.ijA^/ 'i ^y^^ ^o^ ^^,^^ /o ^, 5 .^^ <6 EDMUND HALLEY, LL. D. MENSORIS MARIS, ET TERRAE, COELIQVE PROFVNDI^ HALLAEI NOMEN lACTAT VTERQVE POLVS. JOHN RADCLIFFE, M. D. halflength.,^^(^ SIR ISAAC NEWTON., /^T^r^^^^ ILLE HIC NEVVTONVS, DICENT VOLVENTIA SAECLA, FELIX QVI POTVIT NOSCERE QVANTVS ERA T. ; SIR GODFREY KN E L LE R, in an oval when young, by himfelf. Thofe wlio were acquainted with Sir Godfrey will eafily recoUedl how characleriftical the following lines were of him. QVALIS ERAM VVLTV KNELLERVS, QVANTVS ET ARTE, SE PINGENS DIXIT, SAECVLA LONGA SCIANTv^i A >u^ ^ M^ TWYNING. ,_^x? c^^y^^ -^ LORD CHANCELLOR HARCOURT, half length by Mr. Dahl. «. /^o^t'A)e^A ii^^9- <^-^^- -^ ^ ^^ -^ ., y^R THOMAS CORAM, Projedor of the Found- ling Hofpital, by Mr. Ram/ay. ^"a^-^7;^^^^•^^.^- ^ . ^- -|^- iL -^,^.5^^ A M A N'S head by Corndlm Janfai, ^^ ANOrUER^ tJ^e^uU o^uu l/ha^ (. rtm 2\3 Ay ( vli ) ^- JNOTHERy with a band, unknown. c^<^^^^^e^ ANOTHER, unknown. ^^/^jC^o^^^J^ . , A FRYAR'S head, by Vanryfcoote^^^^-^^ ^^^^^ LANDSCAPES AND SEA-PIECES: ■( Many of the foUoiving piSiures had their meafures taken befort they mo ere fold, luhich are alfo adjoined to them here. A LANDSCAPE AND FI G URE S, the cocai//,^! by three feet three inches wide, ^^^r" e^<5^z^ — i^-t -si^ 5»^ j j I I , AN or HER, by the fame; the evening after funfet. //^^ There is a flight print of it etched by himfej^. The fame fize with the former. x^^^>^ ^^^^^.^-z^^^O . -vi^>-i^^:*--^^^ ANO THER, its companion, by the fam^hand. v<^\. ^. '^ /s\/s \ ANOTHER, by the fame, engraved among the abojTC. ^ coUeftion. One foot feven inches by two feet two inches.^^^f- ^ ANOTHER, with Tobit and the Angel, hy Eljheimerl JA/o on copper, engraved by Count Goudt, Seven inches and a half; 1 by ten and a half. ,^^^^<^^>^^ ANOTHER, with cattle and rocks, by Paul Brill, on| J^^^ copper. Seven inches and a half by eleven. ..-^^^^^^s»*^ A^OT HE R, with Country Boors dancing, very fmall, by Brughell, highly finilhed, on copper. ^-<;^^% '« /^t^j^^^m^^r r l, ^ > . ANOTHER, with figures, by Vander^.xsaert, *^^<^ .^^ ANOT HERy with figures and buildings. byj^^«. Milk', j ANOTHER, with Romulus and Remus and the River : Tyber by Grifoni. Two feet one inch by two feet five inches. ANOTHER, with Gypfies telling a Lady's fortune, who 1$ on horfeback, by W^totm, One foot three inches by one ' foot eight inches. .^ ^^ t-(r^^2.^x/^ Two fitiall oval V I E W S, in water colours, by Gio, Batijla. A S T O R M, by ^. Van de VeUt, junior. ^^^ A CALM, by the fame, very line. k.^^^. c>^:^^fe^ A VIEW of the coaft^of SCHE V E LING, bytlie fame. »^ :^^. oyd^iC^^ ^iC ^-^^^ J^^«/^pt. ARCUh (ix) JRCHITECrURE, The Infide of the great CHURCH at Antwerp, as ^S ^ ^ ieen by daylight, on copper, by Steen^ick. Ten inches by fourteen. - c i/^>^ /cy^^-t^ \ rWE SAME, a View by candle light, taken from the ;f^':f J •-- oppofite end of the church, by the fame, and of the fame ; fize. 0.- c/ /^^/of^ ' A Piece of A R C H I T E C T U R E, with Mofes burying ^y y^ the Aegyptian, by Nicholas PouJJtn. Three feet two inches by . I I four feet two inches, i^^^yf c/t&Zc^A^F^ — — I ! I A Piece of RUINS, Pyramid, Vafe, and Figures^ bv (<^ <9 nfohhi. One foot feven inches by two feet one inch, ^6-^^-C' ' Glifolphi /3a^^^'^ I Two fmall Pieces of ARCHITECTURE, by VluianQ. JS //^ Each two feet three inches by one foot fix inches. //2^y\Jiy<^cu!>c^ AView of theCOLISAEUM atJR.Gilie. Three feet S^,// feven inches by four feet nine inches. « -^^ <^-- /^i^^^'^*^^ - — | j Some of the Principal RUINS at Rome by G/V. Paok j ^^\ / Some other different RUINS, by the fariie...^^^ The Infide of S"^. PETE R'S at Rome, by the fam?, «: 4^ J^^ ^ I ^<^y^x^V-tf*i^ r;^4»<^Z4>«»*.£ '%r The Infide of S^. P A U L'S at Rome, by the fame.^.-^ ^^ _ THE LANDING OF AESCULAPIUS at 32^ Rome in the time of the plague, by the famfe. This riclure j was painted on purpofe for Dr. Mead's Gallery, where it was placed over the chimney at the upper end. There are fevpral of the principal antient Buildings at Rome feen in it. v_-<^^<]^ ^ . A View of S"^. MARK'S place at Venice in [the 3^/2\ Carnaval time, by Canaletti. One foot eleven inches by three feet two inches. »^ /^T JL^^^^^^/^^ *y ^ / A View up the G R E A T C A N A L, by the fame, and ^^ -^ of the fame fize. c^-^^^ /e<^ z^^^^^ ^ «^ B FLOirERS /e / 9 /s /d 6 ' OO FLOWERS AND FRUIT. A Piece of FLOWERS, by OldBapiJi. Two feet eight inches by two feet three inches, c--^^ c^^'^w'^r ANOTHER, hy Young Baptiji. ^/^- /&-^^^-^^^ TWO OTHERS, by an Italian Hand. . Each two feet one inch by one foot feven inches. ^//^ ctX^^^V*^ ANOTHER, in the middle of which the ADORA- TION OF THE MAGI, by Gerard Segers. . Three feet fix inches by two feet ten inches. i^^^y«r;'2v.^^iy .^ ANOTHER, by Van^coon. c^-^*^-^ THE GUERNSEY L I L Y, by the fame. ,..<^- /o 3^ V-^ / /5 'oc 9 A Piece of F R U I T, amongfl the reft a large water melon, by M. Angela Campidoglio. w-^^. (2>'^-«^^>^^^»^ A Bunch of WHITE TOKAY GRAPES, by Strarto'ver. One foot nine inches by one foot feven inches . ANOTHER of RED GR A P ES, by the fame, and of the fame fize. c^ >/ ^ t^a-^ — ANIMALS, Two LYONS heads, by RiAens. '2^-- ^/^.?^?^^ ' LYONS and B I R D S, on copper, by Rorwland Savorj, Eleven inches by fifteen. ^ ^/>^e^^4^^^ — \ Thc0ERBOIM, an Afiatic Animal which feeds on I the fylphium or affaloetida plant. *^/t'VAc^c^<^^ _ I HORSES, SHEEP, GOA'"fs.etc. hy Ro/a di Ti'voli, I Six feet fix inches by ten feet. c^/«' ? ^^.c^^=^>*^^^^ _ ; B I R D S and B E A S T S, by Hondicooter. Five feet fuc inches by feven feet. «^->^ ' •^^ HISTORIES, ^ (xi) HISrORIES, etc. Three HEADS out of three different Cartons, part of riie fet painted by Raphael, feven of which are now preferved at Hampton-Court, the reft were unfortunately deftroyed. One of thefe heads is a fhepherd's out of the Nativity j an- other is of a woman weeping, out of the murder of the In- ^1 \ ^ nocents ; and the third a man^s head, out of the prefentation in the Temple. / ^M q91^z^^ ^: ^^.,^:^^c£,u2^^S^^^. '^-^ •^y'^^.A^ej EURYTUS teaching HERCULES to flioot, on a fmall wainfcot pannel, by Julio Romano, k.,^^ /^^^^ti^ C O C L E S defending the bridge againft porfenna^ a fmall Iketch, hy Old Raima, *_^>^ ^^ O^^c^^^^ /-'^-^^^ - TheADORATION OF THE MAGI, by 0/i Baffhft. It is engraved by Aegidius Sadeler. Two feet three inches by one foot nine inches. %^i^^ ^rs^z^^ i^.>^i . . - . A P O P E faluting a Warrior, by the fame. One foot three inches hy one foot two inches. Q/y4. ^^/^£>Z^^::ZZ^^^l^- A PRIEST adminiftring the Eucharift, by the fame, and of the fame fize. c/^ Q^ ^ /^e^^z^^^fi^f^- 7^// /^/s^ ^2 // 6 Three feet one ! 1 6 \/S\ /6 ^^ 6 /6 ^ ^ A HOLY FAMILY, by Barroccia inch by two feet five inches. cA y'e An ANGEL defcending from Heaven and crowning a woman, in an oval, hy Paul Feronefe^ Three feet iix inches by two feet four inches. l.^>^i^ Kiy/o-^^^ ^JlCc'^ Two Pifturcs, fketches by PaJJari after P. Veromft ano Tintoretto. Each eleven inches by twenty four inches, F R Y A R S fmoaking, by Martin //m//>i.«--^^^^'*r ^ \ ^ The VIRGIN with the I N F A N T in her lap, and a ^^\ Monk kilTmg his toe, hy A-nnihal Caracci. The lar^e piclure | was one of the Moden;i CoileiStion, is now at Drefden, and engraved in the firlc Volume of that Gallery, latdy publilhed. , I'wo feet fix inches by one foot nine inches.e/^:^^>^<^<^^^^^^'^^»^ B 2 The \ ^ y/i^C-^^ ^t^^:^:^!^^- c>/W^ L^^^^ ^c^ p^Sd\ z^< r /- Cy/^hiO' iS^'Z^-i^ o/^^p^i^-t^ ^^^L ^7^^ . I /o6 S 7 y^ /o 7^ /s // /s /o ^7 s ^9 /s /s u ^ /^ ( 'fii ) The Hidory of AC H I L L E S in eight fmall Cjirtons for Tapeflry, by Ruhens. The largcft mcafures one foot fix inches by one foot eight inches, the reft differ a little from one another in fize. They were etched about the year 1670, by F. Ertinger^ and after they came into Dr. Mead*s pofieffion graved by Baron. ^l^yC ^ Z^^^^in^^^- < ^^ /v*^'^ '"^^^ en by S ILE NU S, by Kuhens. w^? ^^^^ v<^A- J^^^ jj2^^ ^ The Temptation of S"^. ANTONY, by David Teniers. ANOTHER, on copper, by the fame! w<^^^i^^K«^Qe^-- The Infide of the GALLERY at Bruffels, with the Pictures in miniature as they were placed there, the matters hands finely imitated by the fame. In this Pidure Teniers has drawn his own Figure fhewing a plan of the Gallery to Puke Leopold. Three feet two inches by four feet three inches. D- y/^r^/a-z^ . BOOR^ at car^s, by the fame. This is engraved by The Flaying of S^. BARTHOLOMEW, by Spag- fioletto. This was the firft Pi6lure purchafed by Dr. Mead, who admired it for the juft anatomical expreffion of the jnufcles in the figure of St. Bartholomew. There is a fine Etching of it by Spagnpletto himfeif. One foot four inches by one foot. ^ ^''^ '■ ^-^ - ^ ^^-ta.^^ A POPE raifmg the dead, by Lanfranck. Two feet by two feet fix inches, c V^f QA^a ^^-c^-Ji^^^ S"^. J E R O M with the laft Trumpet, by Guercino, //^^ o^.i>^ .tS A. Seven S"^. JOHN baptii^ing our Saviour by iV. FouJJln feet by eight feet. \^-^fr«-^^^^cJ A BATTLE PIECE, by Borgo^ncneT One foot fix inches by two feet feven inches.i^^^^G^.^^^^---^^ JNOTH E R, by the fame. One foot^' two feet one inch. JN OTHER, by the fame. Eleven iixches by fixteen. 4^0 THER, by the fame. Cd.' p/^^»/:r.^- ■ - A MAG. ( xiii ) A MAGDALEN, half length, by ran^yh, in her ^^ right hand a (kull, her left hand on her breaft. Three feec , two inches by t\vo feet. <5/; yi ^ iJn^-cy,..^^i^ A LITTLE BOY blowing bubbles, the Mother look- 32 ing on, highly finifhed by Gerard Dauy on copper, the date MDCLxiii. Nine inches and a half by feven inches. ^^-^ ^--■'--^ A fmall MADONNA, on copper, highly finifhed by /*> Carlo D old. '^^ /dcc^ic^^U^ four St. LUKE painting the Virgin, by Le Soeur. One foot • /// IX inches by one foot. c_^/r- < 7^^,,^,^^ / ^ ^ /c ^ 6 ST. PETER, half length by Jacinto Brandt. Three feet one inch by two feet five inches. 2/ yt,^d^^i^ci^^:^j^ 9 // THE FINDING OF MOSE S, by JV%oi^riz. ' «^ One foot three inches by one foot eight inches. v^^/^y'^r/.'/^j THE ANGEL appearing to JO S EPH in a dream» \ ^^^:^^ _ A CONVERSATION, hy Brackenbourgh^^^ ^ // // ^ A WOMAN feeding a child, hy Giofejo Creffi, Six i ^ \^. ^ inches by eight inches, w^ '^^ *'^^?^^ j^j^ An ( xiv ) An HOLY FAMILY with two faints attending, one playing on the harp, by Carlo Marat. Four feet twp indies 1 Dy three feet iix inches, t^^'? <^/y^«^ ^y^ lA^ c7^c^e^t^^ ' Q^UEENANNE giving the plan of Blenheim Houfe to the DUKE OF JVI A R LBO R OU GH, by Sir. G^^-'. Jrey Knelkr, c---^^ ^'^<:^.> A Paftoral CONVERSATION by fFatteau.- Two feet by two feet fix inches, c ,/r ; {i^^^^ A Company of ITALIAN COMEDIANS, by the fame, and of the fame fize. Watteau being in England, and not in the beft health or circumftances, Dr. Mead relieved him in both, and employed him in painting thefe two pidures, which are engraved by Baron, k^': /f'f-ac' I CHRIST healing the Blipd Man, by Sebajiian Ricci, One foot eight inches by two feet two inches. ^- ^ /^e?/^Td The VIRGIN MARY in glory with Saints and An- gels, an oval for a cieling, hy Solimni. Two feet nine inches by two feet four inches, o^ ^^2^^ -vc^e-^ TheFourCARDINAL V I R T UE 5, in four dif- ferent pidliires for the angles of the ceiling abovemention- ed, by the fame. Each one foot ten inches by two htt ttii I inches. <2/^.- a-^^S'i^^. E R M I N I A cutting her Lover's name in the bark of a Tree, by ImperiaU. A very pleafmg pifture engraved by Symp/on 'y. under the print are very appofitely placed the two following lines a little altered from Virgil. EST CERTVM TENERIS NOSTROS INCIDERE AMORES ARBORlSVSj CRESCENT itLAfi, CR ESC ETlS A MOR t S. Two feet one inch by one foot eight inches. %^y^i/^ v ^^c.^ The GRAECIAN MARRIAGE, an antique painting in the Villa Aldrobandini at Rome, copied by im- periaJL Same fize as the Original, x^^^^ ^J^^z^^/- Eight ANATOMICAL Pidures of the Bones and Mufcles,' by Mr. Cowper. K^y^c^z^'^^ /^3 J /S O ^^ ^. JZ /o / / ^ J s <=^ /^ 2'Z // ^ A6- 8 7^7 'ifjc^c^/ev^^s- JUPITER and D AN A E, by Atnkonu k^^^c A Naked (^vj A Naked VE N U S, by the fame, .^^^cy/t..^ ^ ^ The Antique V E N U S at Rome, copied hyCamUlo Fadernt, ^ cT A MADONNA with the INFANT, very finely C9\d copied in crayons from a Pidure oiGuido, by Mr. Coatcs. K,yu^ S'T. SEBASTIAN, by an unknown hand. One foot ^ \ /^ five inches by nine inches and a half. »^.-^j^ ./^a-^ FINIS, I I -7P'i