Rubens. And my Peace and War? I painted it for your Charles, before I opened my negotiation for peace with Spain. Surely it is well cared-for, as a historic record, if not as a picture?
Sir J. Reynolds. Really my trumpet is out of order—I must go.
P. Veronese (pulling him back). Nay, nay, you must tell us of our pictures. Do they stand your fogs and damps? Are they still brightly mellow, defying time and circumstance as such art should do?
INGENIOUS PROTECTION AGAINST MIDGES—A VALUABLE HINT TO SKETCHERS FROM NATURE.
SKETCHING FROM NATURE.
Miss Raphael makes a study for her grand picture, “The Day after the Deluge.”
Sir J. Reynolds. Why, the fact is, my friends—I am sorry to say—but our climate is so very damp, and London so smoky—that they have been cleaned.
All. Cleaned!