Punch: Punch (76.1879)

Mat 24, 1879.] PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI. 229

THE TOUR OF THE ROYAL ACADEMY.

{Personally Conducted by Our Own Guide.)

No. 80. Orphans. G. A. Storey, A. Orphans! Well ? And
who made them so ? Oh, you Storey!

No. 213. " Shall I throw him over, or shall I not ? " Alfred
Elmore, R.A. Young Girl bored by an admirer, who is lying in a
very insecure position on a parapet behind her, reading a little com-
position of his own aloud. With one sudden jerk of her head or
hand she can instantly topple him over into the river.

No. 220. The Prescription. John Pettie, A. Four Doctors
having been called in, depute their senior to read the Prescription to
the bilious young Prince. N.B.—A very fine and striking picture,
but it certainly might be this, just as much as The Death Warrant.
Tres-grand, Pettie.

No. 233. " Queen's Bishop.'" His Lordship's name is Trollope,
which recalls that eminent Bishop of Barchester, Dr. Proudie.
Observe the Bishop's little kids—I mean in his left hand. Fred.
G. Cotman.

No. 416. Summer Time. Marcus Stone, A. Stone being sat on
by a young Girl.

No. 362. Some other Time. Marcus Stone/A. Same Girl grown
up. Five o'clock tea out-of-doors. She is wishing she hadn't put
on those blue boots, as she can't walk about on the damp grass, and
the stool will be of no use to her. " But all the same," she says, to
herself, " I am a very pretty girl."

No. 367. " Bathing not Allowed. Police have Strict Orders," fyc.
Alfred Elmore, R.A.

No. 421. " Love me, love my Dog.'''' G. A. Storey, A.

Gallery YI.

No._464. Sundown. Cecil Lawson. Unless "Swndown" is a
misprint for " Sandown "—the Catalogue is under revision—this
picture is meant to indicate the time of day as seen by Mr. Lawson,
who must, surely, have been " up to the time of day " very late the
night before. Some people have described it as " after Turner,"
but it is more suggestive of " After Supper."

No._465. Hesitation. C. W. Cope, R.A. " The Girl who hesi-
tates is lost"—and a pity this Girl wasn't, on her road to Burlington
House.

No. 477. A Sussex Village. J. W. Oakes, A. Just the place
for Oakes.

No. 487. The Nervous Knight. Briton Riviere, A. "I see
you ! " he exclaimed, peering forward into the darkness. " Here, I
say ! Come ! No larks ! " There were no larks : it was a bat.

No. 507. Taking their Leaves ; or, "J feel just as happy as a
bright Sunflower !" Alfred Parsons.

No. 509. No Bodies ! or, Rainbow Bridge. W. G. Daffarn.
Only two peacocks' tails visible, the poor birds being out of sight,
wedged into the rocks.

tio. 528. Subject from Crabbe's " Tales of the Haul." John G.
Naish. What three nice clean respectable fishermen ! So true to
nature—or to Naish-er.

No. 531. Lady in a reverie, unconscious of the approach of a
goblin bird through the open window. Motto, '' Keep up your
pecker ! " Or if that isn't an open window at the back, and if it
isn't a goblin bird, then what is it ? Goblin tapestry, perhaps. For
further particulars ask the Artist, John Everett Millais, R.A.

No. 540. Turnips and Tops; or, How my Mother sold her
Mangel, by John R. Reid, which has been purchased by the Presi-
dent and Council of the Royal Academy, under the terms of the

Chantry Bequest. It ought to be. the Do-try Bequest not the
Shan't-try.

No. 549. My Native Land, Good Night. H. O'Neil, A. Hope
both mother, with the toothache, and child, are going for a change
of hair.

No. 555. The Place to Catch a Jolly Good Cold. Stuart Lloyd.

Gallery YII.

No. 559. 3fiss Noble. J. C. Horsley, R.A. Yery kind of her
to sit. Noblesse oblige.

No. 579. Signor Piatti; or, Beading at Sight, and Puzzled by a
Foot Note. Frank Holl, A.

No. 582. The Remnants of an Army. Elizabeth Butler (nee
Thompson). The picture of the year. Let us write Mrs. Butler,
R. A.—i.e., " Really Admirable ! "

No. 599. As the Picture tells its own story, I have nothing to say
for it. E. Blair Leighton.

Nos. 609, 614. The Two Alexanders; or, the Bilious Brothers.
John Pettie, R.A. What Alexander is 609? No, not "what
Alexander," but Alexander Watt.

No. 628. Hiding Behind the Door ; or, Practical Joke in the Olden
Time. R. Hillingford.

No. 651. John Hare, Comedian. Yal. C. Prinsep, A. A hare
from the Artist's brush.

No. 663. On the Wye. Wye not? Herbert Lyndon.

No. 779. What'* 0' Clock ? Linnie Watt.

Little Miss Horner
Sat in a corner,
Eating a bit of chee'se

She put up her thumb,
To a boy who cried " Come ! "
And asked, " What's o'clock, if you please ? "

Watt's Rums.

No. 832. A Moment's Reflection; or, in the Swing of it. Henry
Holiday.

No. 857. Adayn. Also by H. Holiday. In spite of the quotation
which this is intended to illustrate, this is quite a Holiday view of
Adam, who is represented as taking it very,easy, or to quote the
apposite line of the venerable Josephus Miller, it is, "Adam taking
his otium cum dig."

Gallery IX.

No. 1218. Mrs. Langtry—after E. J. Poynter, R.A. J. J.
Chant. Happy Poynter, R.A., with Mrs. Langtry after you !!

No. 1221. Portrait of a Gentleman—after Seymour Lucas—
Etching. Yictor Lhuilller. I suppose that Seymour Lucas was
trespassing as well as etching, or else why should the Gentleman
have been after him ?

Gallery X.

No. 1380. Going to the Front: India, 1878 ; or, Training in the
Way they should Go. I hope the Artist is following the example
of his own soldiers, and also "going to the front." Walter C
Horsley.

No. 1391. A Turk trying to Find his Way to the North Pole.
Albert Goodwin. On dit, purchased for the Colney Hatch collec-
tion.

No. 1385. "Absconded." Frank Holl, A. "And so as to
escape observation," said the cunning swindler, to himself, " I have
put on a pea-green overcoat, a light grey frock coat, yellow trousers,
a very decided white waistcoat, and, to make assurance doubly sure,
I am wearing a brilliant scarlet necktie with two big ends! "

No. 1395. " All safe—barrin' the Door.'" Laslett J. Pott.

No. 1423. The Right Rev. Christopher Wordsworth, D.D.,
D.C.L., Lord Bishop of Lincoln. Edwin Long, A. Property
crozier against the wall—evidently for ornament not use, and a
metal cross fastened by an evident elastic band round his Lordship's
neck. He wears also his scarlet Doctor's University hood. Bravo,
Mr. Long ! " Keep up the Christopher ! "

No. 1426. Geo. Grossmith, Esq., Senior. Weedon Grossmith.

There was a little man,

And he had a little son,
Of whom, if you've not seen him, you have read, read, read;

And then he had another,

The former's little brother,
Who has taken, as you see, his father's head, head, head.

No. 1430. A Sardine Fishery. Robt. W. Macbeth. Fishing
for sardines, and let us hope, at the same time, making the tin.
No. 0000. " Not in it / " W. P. Frith, R.A.

Newman Among the Red Hats.

{By a change o/Pope.)

His virtues are so cardinal and rare,
We wonder how the dickens he got there !

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