Anderdon's notes on the opening of the Royal Academy in Trafalgar Square

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Reference code

AND/23/10

Title

Anderdon's notes on the opening of the Royal Academy in Trafalgar Square

Date

[c.1870]

Level

Item

Extent & medium

1 piece

Content Description

He records that William IV was handed the keys by Eastlake. He says that the keys themselves had just arrived from Birmingham, rumour had it that if they had been tried they would not have fitted the locks.