British Library and Estate Auctions
His vast accumulations of prints, drawings, and books &c, were dispersed on his death at Christie's (April to June 1908) and Puttick and Simpson (April, June, July 1908.)
There are 28 indexed files of Grego’s submissions in the British Library. Although Grego was involved with photographic techniques throughout his life, with the exception of 87 19th century glass-negatives of Pickwickiana* in his estate, withheld from the 1897 VEE, there are no other surviving Grego-photographic records. Albeit there are receipts for ‘Photogravure plates produced by Joseph Grego for use by ‘Chapman and Hall’- Dickens's publishers, and a rare life-photograph* of Hablot Knight Browne ('Phiz'). Jules Bastien-Lepage drew a small head of Grego in pen and ink on a visit to London, circa 1880-81.
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