17 September 1866 – 23 September 1866

Southampton Exhibition. Pictures — 'Sir Joshua,' Hunt's ' Awakening Conscience,' Lear's ' Florence,' Lee's ' Caprera,' etc. Antiquities — Indian and Chinese things, etc, etc. An Exhibition always troubles my mind — why i' — it is heterogeneous and confused, as a whole the very opposite of an artistic thing. A Collection of whatever kind ought itself to be a Work of Art — hard to manage this in a temporary Exhibition, yet even here something might be done.