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

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- GB 345 NG15/5
Dates of Creation
- May 1845
Language of Material
- English
Physical Description
- 24 pages

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Author: C.L. Eastlake

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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