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BLEVENTH “ANNUAL ‘REPOR® 
OF 
Che Corporation Art Gallery Committee. 
a Art Gallery Committee have much pleasure in presenting their 
Eleventh Annual Report to the Town Council. The Gallery has 
been open during the past year 239 days, as compared with 278 days 
in 1892, and the number of visitors is shown in the following table :— 
1891-92.| 1892-93. 
Visitors to Autumn Exhibition ... ae 2OO2T, 17399 
55 Spring B ae ...| 20648 17456 
on Summer 99 ah el L260 11290 
Total Visitors wee ase 1964 "46145 
Total Days Open by Payment ... oto 194 156 
a a Ereey) as tee sae 84 83 
Total Days Open _... Be 278 239 
Average on Paying Days... i all ee: 85° 
3 Free Days... on senll 143759 396°4 
These figures, the Committee venture to think, are quite satisfac- 
tory, varying but little from those of 1892. The average attendance on 
the free days is rather less, and on the paying days a little more than 
last year, but the total number of visitors is more by fifteen thousand 
than it was three years ago. The largest attendance on a free day was 
802, and on a paying day 347, both days being in Whit-week. 
The amount to be asked from the Council is £6 more than last 
year. The Gallery having been open for six weeks less accounts for a 
diminution of the same amount in the turnstile receipts, while Commis- 
sion on sale of Pictures is £20 less. ‘The Committee, however, think, 
considering the long depression of trade, they have’ been fortunate in 
disposing of pictures to the Catalogue value of £515 16s. The sale 
of Catalogues steadily increases. 
