might exact, and out of which he might have been tricked
by the Night!

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Mr. BOWEN: "Do you think two hundred guineas a large price for that
picture?"

Mr. JONES: "Yes. When you think of the amount of earnest work done for
a smaller sum."

Examination continued: "Does it show the finish of a complete work of
art?"

[Sidenote: "The action of imagination of the highest
power in Burne Jones, under the conditions of
scholarship, of social beauty, and of social distress,
which necessarily aid, thwart, and colour it in the
nineteenth century, are alone in art,--unrivalled in
their kind; and I _know_ that these will be immortal, as
the best things the mid-nineteenth century in England
could do, in such true relations as it had, through all
confusion, retained with the paternal and everlasting
Art of the world."--JOHN RUSKIN, LL.D.: _Fors
Clavigera_, July 2, 1877.]

"Not in any sense whatever. The picture representing a night scene on
Battersea Bridge, is good in colour, but bewildering in form; and it
has no composition and detail. A day or a day and a half seems a
reasonable time within which to paint it. It shows no finish--it is
simply a sketch. The nocturne in black and gold has not the merit of
the other two pictures, and it would be impossible to call it a
serious work of art. Mr. Whistler's picture is only one of the
thousand failures to paint night. The picture is not worth two hundred
guineas."

Mr. BOWEN here proposed to ask the witness to look at a picture of
Titian,[15] in order to show what finish was.[16]

[Note 15: "I believe the world may see another
Titian, and another Raffaelle, before it sees another
Rubens."--Mr. RUSKIN.]

[Note 16: ... "The Butcher's Dog, in the corner of
Mr. Mulready's 'Butt,' displays, perhaps, the most
wonderful, because the most dignified, finish ... and
assuredly the most perfect unity of drawing and colour
which the entire range of ancient and modern art can
exhibit. Albert Durer is, indeed, the only rival who
might be suggested."--JOHN RUSKIN Slade Professor of
Art: _Modern Painters_.]

Mr. SERJEANT PARRY objected.