| Collection | Victorian Papers, Main Series |
| Description | 'Third Report of the Commissioners on the Fine Arts' reporting on the exhibition of the fresco-paintings and their decision to commission six artists from the exhibitors to provide sketches and specimens of fresco-painting. They also report that they have invited an exhibition of Models for Sculpture and that they can now recommend artists in Arabesque-painting, Glass-staining, Wood-carving, ornamental Metal-work and ornamental-Pavement.
Commissioners listed as; Albert, Lyndhurst, Sutherland, Lansdowne, Lincoln, Aberdeen, Palmerston, Mahon, Ashburton, Colborne, Charles Shaw Lefevre, Robert Peel, J.R.G. Graham, T.B. Macaulay, Robert Harry Inglis, Henry Gally Knight, B. Hawes (Jun.), Samuel Rogers, George Vivian and Thomas Wyse. |