Protest And Counter-Statement Against The Report From The Select Committee On The National Gallery Ordered, by the House of Commons, to be printed, 4th of August, 1853. [Epigraph]

RA Collection: Book

Record number

07/3809

Imprint

London:: John Russell Smith, 36, Soho Square., MDCCCLV.

Physical Description

124 p.; 242 mm.

Contents

[T.p.] - The Members of the Committee - To The Nation - [Text] - Appendix No. I.(-II.) - Appendix No. III. Contents; [colophon].

Responsibility Note

The work appears over the names of Frederick Y. Hurlstone, William Coningham, George Alfred Arney, Alfred Stevens, Richard Evans, Walter Savage Landor, George Long, Alfred B. Richards, Philip Edward Barnes, Charles Frederick Perkins, Thomas Wakley, John Ingram Lockhart, Robert Barnes, John Hamilton, 'An Englishman', Hyde Clarke, Edward Mayhew, James Taylor.

The printer is named in the colophon and at the foot of the upper cover of the paper wrapper: 'Tucker, Printer, Perry's Place, Oxford Street.'

Summary Note

In the title printed on the upper cover of the paper wrapper the epigraph is followed by the words, 'Third Edition.'

The table of Contents lists the sections of the work as: The Purchasing Of Pictures; The Picture-Cleaning Of 1852; The Picture-Cleaning Of 1846; The Picture-Cleaning Of 1852 resumed; Management Of The National Gallery; The Site Of The National Gallery; Conclusion.

Provenance

The upper cover of the paper wrapper is inscribed in pencil, 'S. A. H', i.e. S.A. hart, librarian of the Royal Academy 1864-81; and in ink illegibly.

Copy Note

The paper wrappers have been bound in. The verso of the front loose endpaper has been inscribed in pencil, 'See Moore. Morris'.

Binding Note

19th-century quarter red morocco, red cloth-covered boards; spine lettered 'Protest And Counter-Statement.' and 'R.A.'

Name as Subject

Subject

Paintings, European - Great Britain - History
Collections - Galleries - Administration - Government policy - Great Britain - London - 19th century
Paintings - Conservation - Cleaning - Overcleaning - Great Britain - 19th century
Pamphlets - Great Britain - 19th century

Contributors

John Russell Smith, publisher
Tucker, printer