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Records of the National Gallery

Catalogue reference: NG

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This record is about the Records of the National Gallery dating from 1813-2010.

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Reference
NG
Title
Records of the National Gallery
Date
1813-2010
Description

Records of the National Gallery including:

  • NG 1: Minutes of Board Meetings
  • NG 2: Inventory of Pictures Acquired by the National Gallery
  • NG 3: Dossiers
  • NG 4: Conservation Dossiers
  • NG 5: Letters to the National Gallery (1821-1877)
  • NG 6: Letter Books
  • NG 7: Letters to the National Gallery (1878-1914)
  • NG 8: Treasury Letters
  • NG 9: Registers of Offers to the National Gallery
  • NG 10: Manuscript Catalogue
  • NG 11: Copyists' Registers
  • NG 12: Draft Minutes of the Board of Trustees
  • NG 13: Finance
  • NG 14: Acquisitions
  • NG 15: Publications about the National Gallery
  • NG 30: Images
  • NG 32: Exhibitions
  • NG 35: Awards
  • NG 36: Sainsbury Wing Building Project

Held by
National Gallery Libraries and Archive
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Language
English
Physical description
19 series
Access conditions
Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated
Subjects
Topics
Art, architecture and design
Museums and galleries
Administrative / biographical background

The National Gallery, which houses a permanent collection of western painting from the 13th to the 20th century, was founded in 1824 following a parliamentary grant for the purchase and exhibition of the Angerstein collection of pictures.

In 1859 the British collections at the National Gallery were removed to South Kensington, returning to Trafalgar Square after the galleries there were enlarged in 1876. An extension to the north of the building was opened in 1975 and the Sainsbury wing was opened in 1991.

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https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C214/

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