The Sun.
London, England, 1826-12-12 00:00:00

RAPHAEL

A great number of the patrons of the line arts assembled
on Saturday at Robins's-rooms, Covent-1 rden, it having
been publicly announced that a'Madona, by taphael, which
had been, by the brat judges, estimated at 5,000 guineas,
would be peremptorily sold by auction. Several other
pictures were also announced for sale.
No. 65. The Madona was put up. That It was the work
of the great. Raphael, he believed nobody would have, the
hardihood to deny. It must, he said, be Ad ,itted that there •
was a similar picture in the Louvre. Ti only matter of
astonishment was, why this great master t the art should •
have painted two pictures upon the same subject, and so •
critically alike. Mr. Robins then read e 3 following part
of the history of the picture :
" This picture was the altar-piece of ordinal Mazarin,
when Prime Minister of France during he Minority of
Louis XIV. i • and at his death he bey athed it to the
Ancestor ,of Monsieur Primodan, from horn it was pur-
chased. The loyalty of that gentleman tridered hire an
object of sanguinary attention during tl tyranny of Ro-
bespierre ;he was thrown into prison, id his ;property
sequestrated. On quitting his prison In was compelled to
sell this celebrated picture. The prese proprietor was
then happily in Paris (1795), and. pure +sad the picture
for forty thousand livres. From that ti 3it has remained •
in his hands, and has been preserved b him with such
veneration, that the original varnish has +at been removed
nor has a fresh one been given. The p nting origi-
nally on panel, but was transferred to avass 1767.
Mr. Robins concluded the highest possible eulogium
upon the work by
it would fetch 6,0001. or 500/. it n . be sold unreser-
vedly. (A laugh.) assuring the asian ly, that whether
ru
Mr, Bendy," Well then, it it m t, knock it down
to me at 100 guineas."-4Laughter.)
Mr. Robins—Well, I could not help myself, even if that
were the only sum offered for it.

A gentleman, after sorne hesitation s d--J' I'll give 200
guineas for it." _ _

Mr. Robins (with astanishment)— 'wo hundred gui-
neas! . This splendid work to be an ificed for 200 gui-
neas. 'Why, this great picture, with t o pictures of little
or no merit, cost my employer 6,000/.
The bidding advanced but little ( 'en after We argu-
ment, and Mr. Robins tried another. " Why," said lie,
"' it would bring in a thousand gainer by exhibition next
season. There is no question of its i ginality—that is as
notorious as the sun at noon day." a then looked over
towards some persons who looked lik
..lows, but they cast
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their eyes upon the ground. Mr, no tie declared that hie
price offered.. The
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liams for 310 guineas !
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Pun i,ic PLACEs.— there are wo kinds of Owes
with u, ; she plavee which the man" ea the phrase goes, and
the
plates which fill the rnau. Pavony lao have the power of
de„.tim, pretty uniformity choose the las' becalm no espacity ie
retviisit, for it, except that MlllllOll to * .ry one of fritare ttelt.
tll rCY possesied of the ordinary proporti lof breethealookat.....
the capacity of receiving.—London Mit tine.

VORACIOUSNESS Or A RAT. —Wecineotiay night
As two ehildren of Southampton were it bed- (a little girl fonr
years old; and her !swam eight years,) the girl tried out to her
father that ‘‘ they Were plowing an heel e! the rat wee scratch-
ing her." A rat, which had in fort ath the child, then be-
ion getting his teeth into one of her haw upon which she cried
out that they were ‘i sticking needles ire her hand:" 84
then taken from the bed, and the rat, 1 Mg hie Wei, tirettift
the toy's cheek, and made his teeth mu , but the boy soon dis-
lodged him, and also made an alarm. T parents Oleo saw how
the little girl had been lactkated; she was bleeding prof„„iv,