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.'
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