[179] Smith’s prediction was strikingly borne out at the sale of the Earl of Crewe’s collection of the productions of Blake, held at Sotheby’s rooms March 30, 1903. The _Illustrations of the Book of Job_, containing twenty-two engravings, twenty-one original designs in colours, and a portrait of Blake by himself, was keenly contested. Bidding began at £1500, and ended at £5600, at which price the _Job_ passed to Mr. Quaritch. Blake’s original inventions for Milton’s “L’Allegro” and “Il Penseroso” brought £1960, and all the remaining sixteen lots fetched high prices. [180] Edward Oram, son of Old Oram, assisted Philip James De Loutherbourg, R.A., in the management of the Drury Lane scenery and stage effects. “Old” William Oram, “of the Board of Works,” was Surveyor to that body. He was much employed in panel decoration. [181] John Ker, third Duke of Roxburgh, the book collector.--Sir John Fleming Leicester, first Baron de Tabley (1762-1827), was a patron of artists, and a good draughtsman. The public were freely admitted to his collection of British pictures at his house at 24 Hill Street, Berkeley Square.--Mr. Richard Bull was a well-known figure at the print sales and a subscriber to Smith’s publications.--Anthony Morris Storer, an ardent collector and “Graingeriser,” extra-illustrated Grainger’s _Biographical History of England_, and left the work to Eton College. A rather candid sketch of Storer is drawn by Rev. J. Richardson in his entertaining _Recollections of the Last Half Century_.--A note on Dr. Lort will be found elsewhere.--Mr. Haughton James, F.R.S., was born in Jamaica; he became a member of the Dilettanti Society in 1763.--Mr. Charles John Crowle and Sir James Winter Lake, Bart., so frequently mentioned by Smith, are the subjects of other notes. [182] In this list of Smith’s patrons the following are of interest:--The “beautiful Miss Towry” was Anne, daughter of Captain George Phillips Towry, R.N., commissioner of victualling, who became the wife of Lord Ellenborough, afterwards Lord Chief Justice of England, Oct. 17, 1782. Her beauty was so great that passers-by would linger to watch her watering the flowers on the balcony of their house in Bloomsbury Square. Lady Ellenborough bore thirteen children, and, surviving her husband many years, died in Stratford Place, Oxford Street, Aug. 16, 1843, aged 74. Her portrait was painted by Reynolds. Mr. Douglas was James Douglas, author of _Nenia Britannica, a Sepulchral History of Great Britain_. As a youth he helped Sir Ashton Lever to stuff birds for his museum. His abilities in painting were considerable, and we owe to him a full-length portrait of Captain Grose. His _Travelling Anecdotes_ is an interesting book. By “Mr. Chamberlain Clark” Smith means Mr. Richard Clark, but he antedates his title of City Chamberlain, to which post he was appointed only in 1798; he held it until 1831, and was Lord Mayor in 1784.