UNWANTED MASTERPIECE.
Mr. Archibald Allen, son of Quaker parents, but he himself is by no means an austere person, pokes quiet fun at his good father in relating that worthy man's troubles over a vast canvas of "The Bape of the Sabines"—after Rubens, perhaps, or by Etty—which he bought in an incautious moment, and at which his wife was horrified. In his book, "One of Ten," by Number Nine, Mr. Allen describes how he had to take the picture away in a small cart, striving vainly to keep it covered with dust sheets, and exciting the keen interest of the Kingsland road idlers.
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 150, 21 December 1929, Page 23
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103UNWANTED MASTERPIECE. Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 150, 21 December 1929, Page 23
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