view-day

Updated: January 17, 2026

You may know an R. A. on the private view-day by the broad, expanding jollity of his visage, if he be a man of that stamp, or by a certain quiet, self-satisfied smile of self-complacence, if he be a man of another. But he looks and bears himself as a host.

Various - Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 444: Volume 18, New Series, July 3, 1852