3.—CHELSEA IN ICE.
Lent by Madame Venturi.
"We are not sure but that it would be something like insult to our readers to say more about these 'things.' They must surely be meant in jest; but whether the public have chiefly to thank Mr. Whistler or the Managers of the Grosvenor Gallery for playing off on them this sorry joke we do not know, nor greatly care. Meliora canamus!"—Knowledge.
4.—NOCTURNE.
Blue and Gold—Old Battersea Bridge.
Lent by Robert H. C. Harrison, Esq.
"His Nocturne in Blue and Gold, No. 3, might have been called, with a similar confusion of terms: A Farce in Moonshine, with half-a-dozen dots."—Life.
"The picture representing a night scene on Battersea Bridge has no composition and detail. A day, or a day and a half, seems a reasonable time within which to paint it. It shows no finish—it is simply a sketch."
Mr. Jones, R.A.—Evidence in Court,
Nov. 16, 1878.
5.—THE LANGE LEIZEN—OF THE SIX MARKS.