Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 210
elude to a popular furore which can only bedescribed as unexampled. The Private View hadout one topic of talk, and the picture was pre-served from destruction at the hands of a mob offriendly sight-seers only by the efforts of a police-man ; not since the days of Wilkies first greatsuccess had such… … *Tfl«*W)U A TRUMPETER OF THE ROYAL HORSE ARTILLERY. [DRAWN BY ELIZABETH BUTLER FORST. NICHOLAS.] the picture, except, indeed, on one occasion, whena gap, as memorable as the crowd, occurred onthe day when the Queen, who did not visit theAcademy at that time, had the picture removedto Buckingham…
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