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Tate Gallery 'transfer to the Gallery at Millbank'
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Author: TURNER, Hawes Harrison
Title: National Gallery Reports 1893-1901
Year: 1900
Publisher: National Gallery, London
Place: London
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Manuscript lists of paintings to be transferred from the National Gallery to the newly established Tate Gallery at Millbank - bound in with printed reports on the gallery's activities. Several hundred art works which were intended for the Tate Gallery include two William Blake drawings 15 Constables, a number of works by John Crome and Rossetti, concluding with: 'the Following Form Part of The Vernon Collection'. A folio-sized bound volume, half green pebbled morocco over green cloth, binding rubbed but sound, old repair at tail of spine on outer hinge with upper board; marbled end-papers, upper hinge starting. Two manuscript documents and an annotated discussion paper precede the printed reports; there is additional printed and typescript material that follows the reports which themselves bear a handful of manuscript annotations, as follows.
1. [Manuscript] 'National Gallery of British Art. List of Pictures and Drawings in the National Gallery at Trafalgar Square proposed for transfer to the Gallery at Millbank'. ff 3, March 1900, in the hand of the Keeper of the National Gallery, Hawes Harrison Turner. Divided into a table with columns for 'NG number', Painter, Dates, Subject and 'G' for gift, 'B' for bequeathed or 'P' for purchased. The artworks included a dozen Landseers, works by Pickersgill, Wilkie and Etty as well as a group of 'Modern Foreign Pictures' including a Poussin and 'Drawings' by Cattermole, Varley, Wilkie etc. There is a terminal 'Note by Director', written on Poynter's behalf by Turner and setting out the remit of the proposed transfer which ought to include 'all the works of Cotman', and works by Naysmyth but setting out the reasons that the NG should hang onto these. (see item 15)
2 [Manuscript] 'National Gallery, London. Return of all Pictures Purchased for the Collection from 1897 to 1901', dated March 1902 [ff] 2. Concertina format setting out details of acquisition of works, their prices and sources with authority for the purchase followed by remarks. This is an acquisition list again in the hand of H H Turner and includes the purchases of works by Romney, 'Portrait of Mrs Currie' for £3500 and two Rembrandts including the 'Portrait of an Old Lady' for £15,050. The document concludes with the total expenditure figures 'during the 5 years.'
3 'Confidential', pp 4 Printed Resolution regarding 'our procedure in regard to the acceptance of pictures...' dated March 31, 1902, initialled 'L.' Annotated in pencil presumably following a meeting and vote with several manuscript emendations to the text in the light of consultation and discussion showing which agenda items were 'carried'.
4-12 Annual Reports: 1893 pp 16; 1894, pp 30; 1895, pp 18; 1896, pp 14; 1897, pp 38; 1898, pp 16; 1899, pp16; 1900, pp 26; 1901, pp 14. Occasional pencil annotation eg 1897, p 15 identifying London gallery where a painting was acquired.
13 The Saturday Review, 26 February 1898, Supplement. London 26 Feb, 1898, 'The State of the National Gallery.' pp 275-280
14 'List of Works Purchased under the Terms of the "Chantrey Bequest"', pp 4
15 [Manuscript] 'The National Gallery of British Art: List of Pictures in the National Gallery at Trafalgar Square Proposed for Transfer to the Gallery at Millbank.', pp 7 fold-out pages, 'W Stradling 1895' watermark paper; undated but presumed to be c1900. Document set out as a table expanding on the first item in the collection. A few corrections in brown ink.
This presents a list of several hundred art works intended for the Tate Gallery to include two William Blake drawings 15 Constables, a number of works by John Crome, Rossetti etc, concluding with: 'the Following Form Part of The Vernon Collection, 2pp.
Provenance: It's not known who had this collection bound though the obvious candidate would be Hawes Harrison Turner who composed the manuscript lists that begin the volume. In the 1980s the volume was owned by R C Charnley of Much Hoole in Lancashire who corresponded with Angelina Morhange/ Bacon at the Gallery in 1980-1 - that correspondence with a later compliments slip from the NG is laid in.
1. [Manuscript] 'National Gallery of British Art. List of Pictures and Drawings in the National Gallery at Trafalgar Square proposed for transfer to the Gallery at Millbank'. ff 3, March 1900, in the hand of the Keeper of the National Gallery, Hawes Harrison Turner. Divided into a table with columns for 'NG number', Painter, Dates, Subject and 'G' for gift, 'B' for bequeathed or 'P' for purchased. The artworks included a dozen Landseers, works by Pickersgill, Wilkie and Etty as well as a group of 'Modern Foreign Pictures' including a Poussin and 'Drawings' by Cattermole, Varley, Wilkie etc. There is a terminal 'Note by Director', written on Poynter's behalf by Turner and setting out the remit of the proposed transfer which ought to include 'all the works of Cotman', and works by Naysmyth but setting out the reasons that the NG should hang onto these. (see item 15)
2 [Manuscript] 'National Gallery, London. Return of all Pictures Purchased for the Collection from 1897 to 1901', dated March 1902 [ff] 2. Concertina format setting out details of acquisition of works, their prices and sources with authority for the purchase followed by remarks. This is an acquisition list again in the hand of H H Turner and includes the purchases of works by Romney, 'Portrait of Mrs Currie' for £3500 and two Rembrandts including the 'Portrait of an Old Lady' for £15,050. The document concludes with the total expenditure figures 'during the 5 years.'
3 'Confidential', pp 4 Printed Resolution regarding 'our procedure in regard to the acceptance of pictures...' dated March 31, 1902, initialled 'L.' Annotated in pencil presumably following a meeting and vote with several manuscript emendations to the text in the light of consultation and discussion showing which agenda items were 'carried'.
4-12 Annual Reports: 1893 pp 16; 1894, pp 30; 1895, pp 18; 1896, pp 14; 1897, pp 38; 1898, pp 16; 1899, pp16; 1900, pp 26; 1901, pp 14. Occasional pencil annotation eg 1897, p 15 identifying London gallery where a painting was acquired.
13 The Saturday Review, 26 February 1898, Supplement. London 26 Feb, 1898, 'The State of the National Gallery.' pp 275-280
14 'List of Works Purchased under the Terms of the "Chantrey Bequest"', pp 4
15 [Manuscript] 'The National Gallery of British Art: List of Pictures in the National Gallery at Trafalgar Square Proposed for Transfer to the Gallery at Millbank.', pp 7 fold-out pages, 'W Stradling 1895' watermark paper; undated but presumed to be c1900. Document set out as a table expanding on the first item in the collection. A few corrections in brown ink.
This presents a list of several hundred art works intended for the Tate Gallery to include two William Blake drawings 15 Constables, a number of works by John Crome, Rossetti etc, concluding with: 'the Following Form Part of The Vernon Collection, 2pp.
Provenance: It's not known who had this collection bound though the obvious candidate would be Hawes Harrison Turner who composed the manuscript lists that begin the volume. In the 1980s the volume was owned by R C Charnley of Much Hoole in Lancashire who corresponded with Angelina Morhange/ Bacon at the Gallery in 1980-1 - that correspondence with a later compliments slip from the NG is laid in.
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