LONDON.- Sotheby’s London sale of Victorian and Edwardian Art on Thursday, 13th July 2010, will present two paintings that provide a fascinating glimpse into Victorian life as it would have been experienced by London residents at the time. Populated by a cross section of classes in the social spectrum, the pictures chart the onslaught and speed of the encroaching modern world. Bank and the Royal Exchange by William Logsdail (1859‐1944), estimated at £600,000‐800,000, and Infant Orphan Election at the London Tavern – Polling, by George Elgar Hicks (1824‐1914), estimated at £500,000‐700,000, were both exhibited at the Royal Academy and well received by art critics of the day. Logsdail’s Bank and the Royal Exchange was painted in 1887, one of a series of London street scenes for which he is now best known. The artist set up his easel between the Corinthian columns of the portico of Mansion House;