Speech inaugurating an unknown exhibition of contemporary art

RA Collection: Archive

Reference code

RI2/47

Title

Speech inaugurating an unknown exhibition of contemporary art

Date

[1899-1902]

Level

Item

Extent & medium

1 document of 9 pages

Previous reference codes

2070

Historical Background

An an estimated date has been provided through reference to what is, in all probability, the 2nd Boer War.

Content Description

Directed to an audience of a broad public nature, though the assumptionis made that they are city dwellers. He jogs through the three types of pictures; those dealing with ideas, acting as records, or posing as history - before remembering to add the fourth, landscape.