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Leather. Large 4to. Bell and Daldy, London, UK. 1870. iv, 106 p. 20 Autotype on heavy card. Bound in full red morocco, gilt back and sides, all edges gilt. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. Heavy cardstock pages are waved but the images seem unaffected (see photo #4 of the fore-edge). Soil present to the reverse of the FFEP. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. In that year John Sheepshanks offered the Museum his collection of around 500 modern British oil paintings, watercolours and drawings to found a 'National Gallery of British Art' . His gift included major works by Turner and Constable, and substantial groups of pictures by a number of important Victorian artists. He preferred the 'open and airy situation' of South Kensington to the polluted atmosphere of central London, and believed in the importance of making art accessible to the public. The first of his galleries opened in 1857 and is the earliest surviving part of the V&A. The building was extended with further top-lit galleries in 1858-65. Sheepshanks made his gift ‘in the hope that other proprietors of pictures and other works of art may be induced to further the same objects’. The new museum received the seal of royal approval in 1865 when Queen Victoria agreed to lend the Raphael cartoons, the greatest cycle of Italian Renaissance pictures in England. These public-spirited gestures encouraged a series of bequests and gifts, which form the core of the Museum’s collection of pictures. Leather The Sheepshanks Gallery Twenty Pictures Reproduced by Autotype Process Leather The Sheepshanks Gallery Twenty Pictures Reproduced by Autotype Process Description Up For Sale Today is The Sheepshanks Gallery A Series of Twenty Pictures from this Celebrated Collection Reproduced in Permanent Tint by the Autotype Process Introduction by Richard Redgrave Leather. Large 4to. Bell and Daldy, London, UK. 1870. iv, 106 p. 20 Autotype on heavy card. Bound in full red morocco, gilt back and sides, all edges gilt. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. Heavy cardstock pages are waved but the images seem unaffected (see photo #4 of the fore-edge). Soil present to the reverse of the FFEP. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. In that year John Sheepshanks offered the Museum his collection of around 500 modern British oil paintings, watercolours and drawings to found a 'National Gallery of British Art' . His gift included major works by Turner and Constable, and substantial groups of pictures by a number of important Victorian artists. He preferred the 'open and airy situation' of South Kensington to the polluted atmosphere of central London, and believed in the importance of making art accessible to the public. The first of his galleries opened in 1857 and is the earliest surviving part of the V&A. The building was extended with further top-lit galleries in 1858-65. Sheepshanks made his gift ‘in the hope that other proprietors of pictures and other works of art may be induced to further the same objects’. The new museum received the seal of royal approval in 1865 when Queen Victoria agreed to lend the Raphael cartoons, the greatest cycle of Italian Renaissance pictures in England. These public-spirited gestures encouraged a series of bequests and gifts, which form the core of the Museum’s collection of pictures. OUR MISSION STATEMENT: Our goal is to provide the best books for the lowest prices. We understand that you have more choices than ever to buy books, so we strive to provide the best service, accurate descriptions, the cheapest shipping and the best customer service in the realm of bookselling. Thank you for visiting this listing and we hope to see you again soon! 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