DERBY DAY.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3116, 30 January 1889, Page 3

DERBY DAY.

The companion picture to Hen* Kahler's view of the "Lawn at Flemington on Cup Day," is now on View: in the upper hall of the Atbennnm, Melbourne,.,lt represents the ecene which occurred at : the same place on Derby Day, 1880. ' when Trident hud been declared the winner of the day's ! event, and Lady Loch placed tbo blue ribbon of the turf round tbo victor's glossy neck,in the presence 6f an animated crowi} of spectators, including His Excellency the Governor, the Duke of Manchester, the Earl of Rosebery; Sir William Jervois, and other distinguished visitors. Upwards of 200 figures are introduced in the foreground of the composition, and 40 or ,60 of these aro portraits of

ladies, gentlemen, and children taore- ' or less well known in Melbourne ■ > oirples, the likenesses being generally; 1 excellent, ; Iji an- apjao- -■ iind in grouping them, the.arlist lias had a very difficult task to accomplish, but his: skill and ingenuity. and' te'-li'ad produced' a - striking if notßupwioi',to |

its predeeessor; which lifts just be'on successfully reproduced hi Paris by 'tho process of photo-grame, In the:," Derby, l)ay," the spectator is looking amy from the grandstand, and across the course to the ilat, with tho Newmarket-hill, the dis ; tant oily, aiid the ground sloping dawn to the Saltwater River, as the boundaries of the lively scone. As a pictorial record of tho ovont portrayed, a collection of portraits and it reflection of tho fashions of tho period, the picture will, increase' iu interest with ithe lapse of time, and its multiplication by the process jiist referred to will kolp to popularis9.it. Near it is a souvenir of tho famous white terraces at Itotomahana, from sketches made upon the spot by JHerr .Kalilev, who proposes to paint the scene on a largo scalei and. to exhibit the work in Europe as a vivid representation of a vanished wonder, His Excellency the Governor and Sir Willian Robin son visited the Exhibition on Friday, and expressed themselves much pleased with it.—Argus.