Pictures and their Value. (Turner and Robinson, 6s. net.)— Here
we have the prices realised at picture-sales during the years 1905-6. Two indexes are given, one of painters (in oil and water), another of engravers, etohers, do. The details are; as might be supposed, exceedingly interesting. An Etty, " Venus and Cupid" (251 by 19), fetched 36 guineas ; Frith, "Pope and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu" (46 by 86), 460 guineas (it fetched 1,860 guineas in 1873); George Lance, "Red Cap" (27 by 351), 38 guineas (it was sold, we think, by the artist for 250 guineas) ; G. D. Leslie, " Fast Day at the Convent " (234 by 14), 20 guineas ; Ansdell, "The Monastery" (17 by 50), 10 guineas (I) ; Herring, Ben., four rustic and hunting scenes (341 by 44), 42 guineas, (231 by 391) 28 guineas, (214 by 27) 24 guineas, (211 by 26) 20 guineas. Here we have pictures by an artist, held in his time to be a master in his own line, extending to forty square feet of canvas and sold at £120, or three pounds per square foot, or fivepenee the square inch. A Rosa Bonheur, to compare moderns with moderns, on the other hand (121 by 171), brought 510 guineas, or twenty-three shillings per inch, to use the same brutal mode of comparison.
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