Catalogue of the British Fine Art Collections at South Kensi

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1863 Excerpt: ... 132..-S'ANoH0'PANza.f-Sancho when governor of Barataria is prevented from eating by the interdict of the physician. Exhibitedat the Royal Academy, 1839. V he took his place at the upper end of the table, which was accommodated with one seat only and a cover for himself alone, while close by him stood a. personage, who afterwards proved to be his physician, with a rod of whalebone in his hand.... A page tucked a bib under Sancho's chin, and another, who acted the part of a sewer, set a plat/e of fruit before the governor; but scarce had he swallowed a mouthful, when the doctor touching the said platewith his wand, it was snatched from him in a twinkling. On panel, 12 X 9, upright. Dom Quixote, Book iii. chap. I5. Q The pictures of Landseer and Leslie are very interesting in connexion with the question of the preservation of British works of art, since we can compare the present state of these painters' works with the vehicle which has been used in painting them. Generally the pictures of both of these artists are perfectly sound and unchanged, and as Mr. Leslie is known to have painted his with mastic magilp, and Landseer is believed to have doneso likewise, it would show that this medium, when not used in improper quantities, is as safe and trustworthy as can be de-sired. Some of_ these pictures have been long varnished, but do not show any signs of those opening cracks which are sure to appear when asphaltum is used, but which do not seem necessarily to result from the use of magilp. Two or three places in the Drover's Departure for the South have been touched with asphaltum laid on probably on the varnishing days, to enrich the darks; these small spots will be seen to have entirely failed, while...