Auction houses [ Trade ]
… shifted from multipurpose commercial premises to purpose-built exhibition and sales venues – the auction house. Image Legend Thomas Rowlandson, ‘Christie's Auction Room’, Courtesy of The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University, Quarto 646 808 … its networks of wharfs and warehouses to the artistic clusters of Soho and Covent Garden and later on flourished in the West End and Pall Mall, completing their transition from commercial venues to fashionable haunts. 1 . Mascha Hansen, … fellow antiquarian’s collection would see his community converge to the auction room. ‘I cannot learn that the late Mr. West has left any will which makes me presume his valuables will come under the auctioneer’s hammer– if so I hope it will …
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