Enfilade

From Sotheby’s (click to view the very grand 3-minute preview). . .

Spanning 2000 years of art history and formed over several centuries, the collection of the Dukes of Northumberland, from Syon House and their primary residence Alwnick Castle, is one of the great British collections. Henry Wyndham, Mario Tavella and Andrew Fletcher present a selection of the 73 lots from this remarkable collection to be sold at Sotheby’s in 2014.

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Property from the Collections of the Dukes of Northumberland 

Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts
8 July 2014, London

Old Master Drawings
9 July 2014, London

Treasures
9 July 2014, London

Old Master and British Paintings
9 July 2014, London

English Literature and History
15 July 2014, London

Indian and South East Asian
1 October 2014, New York

Arts of the Islamic World
8 October 2014, London

Travel, Atlases and Natural History
4 November 2014, London

Clive Aslet writes about the family for Sotheby’s Magazine (30 May 2014).