A Great Picture Sale at Christie's, from "The Graphic"

September 10, 1887

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In 1887 "The Graphic" published a design by Sydney Prior Hall, one of the gifted artists on its staff, showing a London paintings auction in progress conducted by Thomas Woods (1829–1906), one of the partners in the firm Christie, Manson & Woods. Hall left Oxford to pursue art and made his name sending back images from the front during the Franco-Prussian War. His gift for humor, later demonstrated in illustrations to "Tom Brown's School Days" (1885) is applied here to gently caricature members of the audience.

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Title: A Great Picture Sale at Christie's, from "The Graphic"
Series/Portfolio: The Graphic
Artist: After Sydney Prior Hall (British, Newmarket, Suffolk 1842–1922 London)
Date: September 10, 1887
Medium: Wood engraving
Dimensions: Sheet: 9 7/16 × 12 3/16 in. (24 × 31 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit Line: Gift of Donato Esposito, 2019
Object Number: 2019.279.25
Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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