John Cassell's Art treasures exhibition: containing engravings of the principal masterpieces of the English, Dutch, Flemish, French, and German schools (1858)
Cassell, John, 1817-1865 · London, W. Kent and co. · leaf 133
TREASURES EXHIBITION. miscreant close at his side is subtracting, with considerable dexterity, a bank note from the noblemanshat. A butcher and a ragged potboy are endeavouring to apprise the noble sportsman, who is far toointent upon the sport and the bets to heed their warning, of the… … which he belongs. The noisy eagerness of the assemblage of roughs as the sport proceeds, is so welldescribed by the attitudes of the speakers, that we almost fancy we can catch their words. If satire—Avholesome, truthful satire—could have crushed so frightful a custom, this circumstantial…
Art Treasures Exhibition (1857 : Manchester, England) · Painters
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