| Collection | Victorian Papers, Main Series |
| Description | 'Fourth Report of the Commissioners on the Fine Arts, with appendix. Presented to both Houses of Parliament by Command of Her Majesty', reporting on the current selection of paintings and sculpture, and where they are to be placed within Westminster Palace. Also proposing that the artists William Calder Marshall, John Bell and John Henry Foley be commissioned to prepare statues of Hampden, Lord Falkland and Lord Clarendon. They also request that a further £2,000 be granted toward payment for the works of art.
Commissioners listed as; Albert, Lyndhurst, Sutherland, Lansdowne, Lincoln, Aberdeen, J. Russell, Palmerston, Melbourne, Mahon, Ashburton, Colborne, C.S. Lefevre, Robert Peel, J.R.G. Graham, T.B. Macaulay, Robert Harry Inglis, B. Hawes (Jun.), Henry Hallam, Samuel Rogers and Thomas Wyse. |