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Show COST A roriTUNE. Ink of UillHroii(h Trratur Vlorlli h Kliio Itanium. The costliest plcturo In the world Is owned by tho Duke of Marlborough, who has a largo and very cxpenslvo collection of pictures which haa come down to him from tho original Duke of Marlborough The rarest of them Is the lllenhclm ' Madonna," painted by Itaphael In 1C07 and now valued at 1350 000 Tho picture was originally painted for tho Church of too Servl at I'erugla It Is eight feet high, repre renting tho madonna and child seated on n throne, with a figure of St John tho Ilnptlst on tho lift and that of old St Nicholas of Ilarl on the right, the last two being life size Its high value la duo to tho fact that It is one of Ibe beat preserved of the pictures of Its phaet which are now In existence. It lias been proposed that tho Urltlsh goveriment buy this picture nlen helm palace U so tailed In honor of llio battlu which the Hngllsh under the Duko of Marlborough, won over the French, and was given to the great soldier ftr Queen Anne. Hvery year little tlaK worked with a Ileur de-lls It sent to Windsor castlo by way of rent and hung upon the wulls ot the castle 1 St Louis Olobe Democrat BBao-iaaP |