A Great Picture Sale at Christie's, from "The Graphic"
After Sydney Prior Hall British
Not on view
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.