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threw it out of the window; and the picture in the fall broke into three pieces; but, Pomerantius, then coming by, took it up, carried it home, and so put it together and mended the colours, that it is not to be discerned that it was ever broken."
I am acquainted with but one portrait of Sir Thomas More
by Holbein, that could be spoken of in this way, and it is hardly conceivable that Roger North can be referring to any other picture than the supremely magnificent picture exhibited in the Winter Exhibition of 1881, and which, if it be not altogether the most superb portrait ever painted inEngland, is certainly the most superb one my weak eyes have ever rested on. But is that picture cracked? Is there a flaw anywhere? Is it possible