Art Income Catalogues 1600 C1900

 Art costs recent: a record of sale charges at the principal London, continental and American Auction Rooms. London: Wm. Dawson  Sons Ltd, 1908 C1973.
 Pressmark: PP.101.Y
 First few volumes deal specifically with revenue at Christie's but coverage was expanded about the next few ages. Several years covered: 1907/08 C1915/16; 1920/21 C1972/73. Prices given in the national currency; dimensions; auction space.

 Auction sale costs: supplement to the Connoisseur: an illustrated monthly record of rates realised at auction . London: Otto Ltd, 1901 C1914
 Pressmark: PP.18.FFW
 Issues for 1901 C1902 known as Sale Prices. Covers auctions for the decades 1901 C1914.

 Connoisseur Art Sales Annual. London: Connoisseur,1969 C1971
 Pressmark: REF Seminar Place 707.5 ANN
 Formerly known as Connoisseur Art Income Index. Precursor of Art Product sales Index.

 The Year's Art. London: Macmillan  Co., 1880 C1947.
 Pressmark: PP.102.P
 Facts a variety of events in the British artwork world. Exhibitions, art education, etc. Not a primary source (has only limited section on major profits) but practical nonetheless. Important research tool with an application much wider than auction house and provenance investigation.

Selected reference will work for locating gross sales catalogues and provenance details

 Lugt, Frits, R  pertoire des catalogues de ventes publiques int  ressant d'artwork ou la curiosit   ...http://lugt.idcpublishers.info
 Accessible on-line within the NAL
 Printed version published:  The Hague: Nijhoff, 1938 C1987. 4 vols. (Vol.4 published by Paris: Fondation Custodia, 1987).
 Vol. 1: 1600 C1825, Vol. two: 1826 C1860, Vol. 3: 1861 C1900, Vol. 4: 1901 C1925. No more to be published.
 Printed version at pressmark: REF 707.5 LUG
 Typical work and primary tool for locating extant copies of historical gross sales catalogues and for investigate on provenance, in printed format and on line. Covers fine and decorative arts product sales from 1600 C1925. Arrangement is chronological by date of sale. Provides areas of catalogues; brief description of sale (no. of pictures, etc); auctioneers; description of catalogues (if priced or otherwise annotated). Includes index of owners and artists. To date, this is the most authoritative publication from the field, and is the source on which quite a few contemporary study projects are based. It is not infallible, as demonstrated by the IDC project (see down below) and the work of Getty provenance index (see underneath), but it is, unarguably, the starting place for any researcher from the field. The on-line version (accessible within the NAL) includes corrections to the original printed edition as well as lots of recently discovered catalogues since the printed version was printed.

 Not readily available on line from the NAL; out there online at the British Library
 Microfiche edition revealed: Zug: Inter Documentation [IDC], 1987 C2004.
 Pressmark: REF 707.5 LUG (Guides to collection) Pressmark: Microfiche F.96.0006, F.97.0001-0003 and 702.AD.0004
 The complete texts of historical art income catalogues listed in Frits Lugt's 'R  pertoire des catalogues de ventes publiques ...' on microfiche and on-line. Includes titles which were omitted from Lugt as well as supplementing the data for catalogues already described by him. Holding libraries in several countries are co-operating along with the project. Catalogues from 20 libraries were filmed for the 1600 C1825 phase (including some from the NAL), the vast bulk of them from libraries in Holland. For a selected number of catalogues more than a person copy has been incorporated, for example wherever annotations vary or wherever there is a translated version. Subsequent phases (1826 C1900) are so far based solely around the holdings from the Rijksbureau voor Kunsthistorische Documentation, The Hague. The collection will eventually comprise all catalogues from the period 1600 to 1900 and catalogues from part 4 of Lugt, 1901 C1925. Accompanied by printed guides based about the Lugt numbers and with supplementary sections detailing newly documented items.