The most elaborate Pre-Raphaelite study is "A Summer Ramble" (276), by Mr. Collinson. . . /

"Ordered on Foreign Service"(41), by Mr. Collinson, represents an officer in full regimentals fresh from the military tailor, leaning from the window of a first-class carriage in a train that has just been signalled to start by the station-master; the third and principal figure in the group being a lady in fashionable attire, who is taking a last fond look at the aforesaid officer. All his luggage will probably be left behind, where it is at present usefully arranged as a foreground. The expression of the sentiment is vulgar; the rendering of the facts untrue. Officers do not start on foreign service figged out as if for a levee; neither do railway porters absent themselves from the luggage in favour of endearing farewells. Still, this is just one of those pictures which appeal to a certain and numerous class of purchasers and will be, or probably has been, purchased for engraving.

Bibliography

“The British Institution.” The Reader. (14 February 1863).


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