Excerpt from Catalogue of Etchings, Engravings and Water Colors: A Dramatic Collection Presented to George Jones (“Count Johannes”) About 1835, Fine Examples of the Work of Haig, Cameron, Anderson, and Other Artists, Pennell’s Panama Set, Colored Prints by Wilson, and Rare New York and Other American Views
The first 37 lots in the Catalogue are water colors and draw ings consigned by a Brooklyn lady; they formed an album of testimonials to George Jones, well known to the older genera tion of New York playgoers for his eccentricities and assumed title of Count Johannes. He came to New York in 1831, and the dates on the drawings suggest that some were given to him shortly before a return visit to England and the remainder on his arrival in that country. George J ones’s oration on Shake speare, delivered in 1836, contributed considerably to the popular movement that ended in the purchase of Shakespeare’s birth place and its presentation to the nation.
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