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Mr. John Jones, the Piccadilly tailor who recently died and bequeathed to the South Kensington Museum a choice collection of art objects, gave also, it appears, the sum of $1,000,000 to another public institution of exceptional worth and desert. At Ventnar, on the Isle of Wight, there was...
Mr. Beresford Hope has just sold a part of his celebrated collection of books, and for some of them obtained excellent prices. Among the choice things in the sale were the first four folio editions of Shakespeare, the fourth edition being in fine condition, but the others had had their...
The News thinks that Yale has the largest collection of meteorites in the country, now that Amherst's museum has been destroyed. But the New York Times states that all the smaller meteoric stones of the Amherst collection were kept in vaults and are probably safe, while the larger stones...
We have never seen a more complete collection of animal painters: Rosa Bonheur, Peyrol Bonheur, Verboeckboven, Van Marcke, Voltz, Burnier, Ceramano, Jacque and Schenck, master and pupil, all are well represented. Rosa Bonheur's picture is small but inimitable; little variety of color but strong and natural, - a sheep, a...
There is only one small picture by Troyen; but it is large enough to show that impressive solemn evening effect for which he is, among other things, much celebrated. Muncaksy, whose picture of "Christ before Pilate," has been so much heard of lately, has a small woodland scene particularly noticeable...