The third annual exhibition of pictures has just been closed. The 

 results will be found embodied in the following report of the Sub-Com- 

 mittee of the Exhibition : — 



The Sub-Committee have now the pleasure to report the results of the 

 late Autumu Exhibition of Pictures at the Free Library and Museum . 



The Exhibition was opened_ to the public from Monday, September Ist, 

 to Saturday, November 99th, during the day, at a charge of Is., and in the 

 evening from Monday, October 13th, to Saturday, November 29th, at 3d. 



The number of admissions by payments at the door amounted to 13,318 in 

 the morning, and 18,361 iu the evening, making a total of 31,679, besides 523 

 season tickets, and about 10,000 pupils of educational estabUshments of all 

 classes and denomuiations admitted gratuitously. 



The number of works exhibited consisted of 454 oil colours, 568 water- 

 colours, 35 pieces of sculpture and other works of art, forming a total of 

 1,057. 



Of these, 972 were for sale, and 271 were actually sold for sums amounting 

 to £7,402 178. 6d., £787 10s. being expended by the Corporation in 

 pictures for the permanent Gallery of Art now in the course of formation. The 

 total receipts amounted to £1,566 Is. 3d., leaving a profit of £466 Is. Od. 



The general results of this Exhibition have been encouraging, as the follow- 

 ing figures denote, and when their nature is examined they are still more satis- 

 ractory : — 



1S72. Daily Average. 



Day Admissions, Is.— 13,276 90 Days 147||j 



(12 Days at 6d. each.) 



Evening „ 6d.-9,6l8 48 Nights 200^1 



(12 Nights at 3d.) 

 1873. Daily Average. 



Day Admissions, 13,318 78 Days 170?| 



(All at Is. each.) 



Evening „ 18,361 42 Nights iS1j\ 



(AU at 3d.) 



Oil. Water Colour Sculpture, &c. 



WoBKS Exhibited,— 1873 454 568 35 



1872 430 501 29 



Increase 24 67 6 



The large increase in the number of season tickets, viz., 523 as against 332 

 in 1872, demonstrates the existence of a rapidly- increasing section of the public, 

 who return again and again to study the pictures carefully, and who will iu 

 time form a body of independent and cultivated art opinion, the effects of 

 wliich must be most advantageous to tlie town. 



