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Saturday Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 124, 24 November 1877, Page 13

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i Mr Whistler is. about to proceed to Venice to produce a series of Venetian etchings. •< -r r The ; Photographic spgloty will dfjoldLitsl Exhibition at - the Gallery of the Society of Painters in Water Colours in I*airSl?ill. r , ! rf ~ A new room has just been opened ih' the’ French Institute for the exhibition of pictures by the f/1 A O A portrait bust of the late Eight Hon. George Ward Hunt, half life-size, executed in sterine, has just been published by Mr Eli Johnson, sculptorj 11„ ( , High* street, Belgravia. i, f i u 7 c J.nis yb Four statues by Mr Marshall Wood have been placed: iSi) the Melboiirne Public Gallery. Two are portrait!busts,ythbse bf the Prince and Priiicess >of Wales T ,‘one a fultr length statue of her Majesty, and the fourth an ideal figure representing Daphne. A; ,' ‘ A committee is being organised by the editors of the Republican newspapers for the purpose of opening a subscription for the erection of a statue of M. Thiers in front of bis bouse in tbe Place St. Georges. Two pictures have been added to the Louvre, being a “ Last Supper ” by Tiepolo, and “ Ruines pres du Caire,” by Manihat. Of tbe latter example French critics speak highly. j Mrs Ooombe, widow of Mr Thomas Coombe, of tbe Clarendon Press, Oxford, has given Mr; Holman Hunt’s picture, “ The Light of the World,” to tbe library of ELeble College. The Queen has, it is said, intimated her consent to the forthcoming Fine Art Exhibition in Dundee being held under her patronage, and has sent a valuable picture for exhibition. Tbe exhibition promises to be the most interesting one ever held north of the Tweed. All the artists of note have sent pictures, and valuable collections have been obtained from museums in London.

We take the following from the Detroit Free Press:- —The Chief of Police was visited by a sharp-nosed, keen-eyed woman, who carried a chromo, 10 in. by 14 in. in size, in her hand, and who placed it before him and asked, “ Are you a judge of chromos and oil paintings P” “Well, I can tell what suits me,” he replied. .“Can you tell one from the other ?” “ Yes, ’m. ” “And what do you call this P” “ That is a chromo.” He wanted to say that it was the worst one he ever saw, but he didn’t. “ Now you are sure, are. you?” she asked. “Certainly I am.” “ Well, that makes me feel a good deal better. I bought that yesterday of an agent for a chromo, and he had scarcely left the house when some of the neighbours came in and said he’d swindled me, and that it was nothing but an oil painting. I thought I’d bring it down and get your opinion, and you say it's a chromo, do you?” “I do.” “All right—thanks. I’ve always been an enthusiastic patron of art, and if that man had got four dollars out of me on false pretences it would have kind o’ set me up against the old masters.”