A Great Picture Sale at Christie's, from "The Graphic"
Sydney Prior Hall
September 10, 1887 · Wood engraving · Drawings and Prints
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.
- Artist
- Sydney Prior Hall
- Date
- September 10, 1887
- Medium
- Wood engraving
- Department
- Drawings and Prints
- Credit line
- Gift of Donato Esposito, 2019