. Bird's eye views of society . The Picture Sal The Picture Sale. ICTURES are verywell in their way,but it is the pur-chafers that aremolt valuable tolook at. And theyform a collectionthat includes fpeci-mens of a greatvariety of fchools—fome antique, fomemediaeval, manyquite unique. Curious old noblemen, very rare, with anearly Englifh tone and flavour of the country about them;old-fafhioned foffils of men, looking as if they had beendug up ; and who rauft be dug down again, for they neverappear anywhere elfe—may be feen peering into the pic-. tures, poking their nofes into China, prying into
. Bird's eye views of society . The Picture Sal The Picture Sale. ICTURES are verywell in their way,but it is the pur-chafers that aremolt valuable tolook at. And theyform a collectionthat includes fpeci-mens of a greatvariety of fchools—fome antique, fomemediaeval, manyquite unique. Curious old noblemen, very rare, with anearly Englifh tone and flavour of the country about them;old-fafhioned foffils of men, looking as if they had beendug up ; and who rauft be dug down again, for they neverappear anywhere elfe—may be feen peering into the pic-. tures, poking their nofes into China, prying into fnuff-boxes, or burying their faces into dingy portfolios. Mufty-looking, dully-looking dealers are there, prowling about,feeking whom they may bid for, and there are quantitiesof florid-looking fpeculators in Art and Virtu of the pre-Chriftian or Mofaic-Arab fchool, highly coloured, highlyvarnifhed (about the hair and boots), and bejewelled aboutthe fingers and waiftcoat. And it is juft poffible that youmay fee a Pufeyite art-ftudent on the look out for examplesof the painfully perpendicular fchool. Thefe, with many more fpecimens of the connoiileur,collector, patron of the Fine Arts, and man of tafte, arecertain to be on view in the auction-room when that well-known and famous Gallery of Works of Art, the propertyof a • gentleman going abroad, is about to be brought tothe hammer. The Art Auction is included in this feries becaule it is *5 H one of the forms of amufement that lociety delights in ;a irroll in there of a morning to fe
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