Publications about the National Gallery

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Scope and Content

The series contains publications about the National Gallery. They include Select Committee reports, political pamphlets and Acts of Parliament.

Administrative / Biographical History

The Gallery has collected publications about itself since its foundation. Principally these relate to the governance of the Gallery although some publications have been kept which are of a more broad historical nature.

Arrangement

The publications have been listed in a broadly chronological order.

Access Information

Open

The publications are available to researchers by appointment with the Archivist.

Other Finding Aids

The most recent and complete list is held on CALM ALM. A paper list is also available at the National Gallery Archive.

Archivist's Note

Catalogued by Alan Crookham, February 2007.

Conditions Governing Use

It is the responsibility of the reader to determine the exact copyright status of the material.

Appraisal Information

Only publications which have a direct relevance to the history of the National Gallery are retained permanently.

Custodial History

Many publications about the National Gallery do not fall within the collecting remit of the Gallery's Library. The publications have usually been collected as a consequence of the daily business of the Gallery and are now held in the Gallery's Archive.

Accruals

Publications about the National Gallery will be added to this series once they have been received by the Archive.

Archive Record|Table of contents

Publications about the National GalleryNG15

Address to the people of England on the Projected Building of a Palace for the Sovereign and of a National GalleryNG15/1

Catalogue of Angerstein GalleryNG15/2

Report of the Select Committee on Arts and their connexion with ManufacturesNG15/3

Report of the Select Committee on National Monuments and Works of ArtNG15/4

Observations on the unfitness of the present building for its purpose. A letter to Sir Robert PeelNG15/5

The Picture Cleaning in the National Gallery with some observations on the Royal AcademyNG15/6

Pamphlets: National GalleryNG15/7

Report of the Select Committee on the National GalleryNG15/8

Minutes of Evidence of the Select Committee on the National GalleryNG15/9

Report of the Select Committee on the National Gallery together with the proceedings of the Committee and the Minutes of EvidenceNG15/10

Protest and counter statement against the Report of the Select Committee on the National GalleryNG15/11

Treasury Minute reconstituting the establishment of the National Gallery and Annual Reports 1856-1864NG15/12

Opinions of the press on Sir Charles Eastlake, Mr Wornum and Herr MündlerNG15/13

Report of the National Gallery Site CommissionNG15/14

ArticlesNG15/15

Select Committee on Public InstitutionsNG15/16

Memorandum by William Cowper on the National GalleryNG15/17

Catalogue of the Eastlake LibraryNG15/18

Second and Third Report of Civil Service Enquiry CommissionNG15/19

National Gallery BluenotesNG15/20

PamphletsNG15/21

National Gallery (Loan) ActNG15/22

Second Report of the Royal Commission appointed to inquire into the Civil Establishments of the Different Offices of the State at Home and AbroadNG15/23

The Victoria & Albert Museum (Art Division). Report of the Committee of RearrangementNG15/24

Turner''s Drawings at the National GalleryNG15/25

Report of the Committee of Trustees of the National Gallery on the retention of important pictures in this country [Curzon Report]NG15/26

Report of a Committee appointed to consider certain questions relating to the pictures bequeathed under the will of Hugh LaneNG15/27

National Gallery BluenotesNG15/28

Interim and Final Report of the Royal Commission on National Museums and Galleries and First and Second reports from the Standing Commission on Museums and GalleriesNG15/29

Royal Commission on National Museums and Galleries. Oral evidence, memoranda and appendices to the Interim ReportNG15/30

Royal Commission on National Museums and Galleries. Oral evidence, memoranda and appendices to the Final ReportNG15/31

List of Turner''s Drawings at the National GalleryNG15/32

Report of the Public Accounts CommitteeNG15/33

The National Gallery in War-TimeNG15/34

Hansard Report on the Export of Works of ArtNG15/35

Report of the Committee on the Functions of the National Gallery and the Tate Gallery, and, in respect of paintings, of the Victoria & Albert Museum [Massey Report]NG15/36

Report of the Standing Commission on Museums and Galleries on the Recommendations of the Committee Appointed to Consider the Functions of the National Gallery and Tate Gallery etc.NG15/37

The War-Time Storage in Wales of Pictures from the National Gallery, LondonNG15/38

Report of the Committee on the Functions of the National Gallery and the Tate Gallery, and, in respect of paintings, of the Victoria & Albert Museum, and Memoranda thereon by the Standing Committee on Museums and Galleries [Massey Report]NG15/39

Committee of Confidential Inquiry into the Cleaning and the Care of Pictures in the National Gallery [Weaver Report]NG15/40

Report of the Director and the Scientific Adviser on the Condition of the Collection and the Requirements for ConservationNG15/41

Report on the Publications DepartmentNG15/42

Report of the Royal Fine Art Commission 1948 and 1949NG15/43

Programme of Scientific Research Proposed by the Conservation DepartmentNG15/44

Report of the Committee on the Export of Works of Art etc. [Waverley Report]NG15/45

Hansard Report on the National Art Collections BillNG15/46

Historic Buildings & Ancient Monuments ActNG15/47

Hansard Reports on the National Gallery and Tate Gallery BillNG15/48

National Gallery and Tate Gallery ActNG15/49

Hansard Report on Purchase GrantNG15/50

Hansard Report on Acceptance of Works of Art in Satisfaction of Death DutiesNG15/51

Hansard Report on State Assistance to the ArtsNG15/52

Reports of the Reviewing Committee on the Export of Works of ArtNG15/53

Hansard Report on the National Gallery and Tate Gallery Purchase GrantsNG15/54

Hansard Report on the Purchase of Hampton SiteNG15/55

Hansard Report on the Lane CollectionNG15/56

Parliamentary Report on Security at the National GalleryNG15/57

Hansard Report on the Leonardo Cartoon GrantNG15/58

Report of Committee of Enquiry into the Sale of Works of Art by Public BodiesNG15/59

A Policy for the Arts. First StepsNG15/60

Transcript of Court proceedings of the trial of Kempton Bunton for the theft of Goya’s Duke of WellingtonNG15/61

Report on Inventory Control and Independent Stocktaking in the National Museums and GalleriesNG15/62

Hansard Reports on Admission ChargesNG15/63

Museums and Galleries ActNG15/64

To the happier carpenter. Rembrandt's war-heroine Margaretha de Geer, the London public and the right to picturesNG15/65

Fourth Report of the Standing Commission on Museums and Galleries 1949-1953NG15/66

The Nation's Mantelpiece. A history of the National GalleryNG15/67