picture-dealing

Updated: June 14, 2025

They are of all classes, from the decayed gentleman and artist, to shopkeepers, cobblers, cooks, and tailors, who find in the large commissions gained a temptation to forsake their petty legitimate callings for the lottery-like excitements and finesse of picture-dealing.

Various - The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 37, November, 1860