Report from the Select Committee on the National Gallery : together with Minutes of evidence, appendix and index.

Great Britain - Parliament

RA Collection: Book

Record number

04/3461

Author

Imprint

[s.l.]: [s.n.], 1850

Physical Description

viii, 110 p., 2 leaves of plates (1 folded) ; ill. : 34 cm.

General Note

The Select Committee was appointed "to consider the present accommodation afforded by the National Gallery, and the best mode of preserving and exhibiting to the public, the works of art given to the nation or purchased by Parliamentary grants, to whom were referred the Report of the Select Committee on Arts and Manufactures of 1836, the Minutes of evidence taken before the Select Committee on Works of Art in 1847-8, together with the Report of the Commission appointed to inquire into the state of the pictures in the National Gallery" (p.iii).
"Ordered, by The House of Commons, to be printed, 25 July 1850" (t.p.).
No. 612
Appendix includes a copy of the "Report of the Commission appointed to inquire into the state of the pictures in the National Gallery, 24 May 1850", and the "Minutes of evidence taken before the Select Committee (1847-48) appointed to consider the best mode of providing additional room for works of art given to the public, or purchased by means of parliamentary grants".

Provenance

With an undated, unsigned letter loosely inserted.

Binding Note

Disbound; housed in solander box with 14/2600

Name as Subject

Contributors

Hansard, Henry, printer
Day and Son, lithographic printer