A DISAGREEMENT IN ART.
I think that there are hundreds, nay, thousands, of men and women who will wholeheartedly endorse my surprise at Dr. <T. S. Elliott's remarks criticisms: the technique of that famous picture, "The Doctor." For instance, the hair of the JI.D. in the picture is quite in accord with the tonsorial fashions of the age, and undoubtedly suit the type of man portrayed. As to the medicine bottle, it is only, I think, a Ooz one, which is quite in order, and very probably has no bearing 011 the case whatsoever. Last, but not least, who said the child is dying? That is left to the imagination. As t,o the doctor's hand or elbow resting on the child, that is nonsense, or else failing sight, as the picture I have before me shows without a shadow of doubt the elbow of the doctor resting in quite a natural posture on his knee. THE DOCTOR-
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 136, 10 June 1932, Page 6
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