Note 9 to Chapter 2 of the author's George Eliot and the Visual Arts, which Yale University Press published in a 1979. It has been included in the Victorian web with the kind permission of the author, who of course retains copyright.
Letters, IV, 476. The National Art-Exhibition (19 May to 26 October 1868) was the most important provincial show since the Manchester Art-Treasures Exhibition of 1857. Many of the pictures came from distinguished private collections. Mounted in the wards of the new Infirmary building, the displays included "three galleries of oil paintings by the old masters, and a collec- tion of their drawings and sketches; two galleries of oil paintings of the English school by deceased and living artists; a gallery of oil paintings by modern foreign artists; a gallery of English water-colour drawings"; and several other sections. See The Illustrated London News, 23 May 1868, pp. 512-13.
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