"Another picture, 'The Little White Girl' was exhibited about the same time, containing the germ of that paradoxical Whistlerian humour lately so fully exemplified in various places about London. It was called 'A Little White Girl' in the catalogue, and yet its colour generally was grimy grey."—London.
"The white girl was standing at the side of a mirror where the laws of incidence and refraction would unfortunately not permit her to see her own beauty."
Merrie England.
34.—NOCTURNE.
Blue and Silver—Cremorne Lights.
Lent by Gerald Potter, Esq.
"I have expressed, and still adhere to the opinion, that these pictures only come one step nearer than a delicately tinted wall paper."
The Art Critic of the "Times"
Evidence at Westminster, Nov. 16, 1878.
"Paintings, like some of the 'Nocturnes' and some of the 'Arrangements,' are defended only by a generous self-deception, when it is urged for them that they will be famous to-morrow because they are not famous to-day."
Mr. Wedmore,