BUBBLES
To the Editor, "The Listener." Sir,-Your reference to the picture " Bubbles" in your issue of February 9, does not say how a firm of soap-makers got hold of that portrait. If you look at any normal person you will see that the upper lip is about on a level with the lobe of the ear. In the portrait in "Bubbles" the little boy’s ear is placed far below this level, indeed, so much so, that when this error was pointed out to Sir John Millais he did not exhibit the picture. Later it was sold to the soap firm. Shortly before the war of 1914 Sir William -then Mr.-James was in New Zealand, where there are, or were, members of the Millais family at Wellington.
Yours; etc:,
LLEWELLYN
ETHERINGTON
Auckland, February 7, 1940,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 35, 23 February 1940, Page 10
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134BUBBLES New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 35, 23 February 1940, Page 10
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