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PURCHASES. 

 Out of the fund accumulated from the profits of the former Exhibitions, the 

 following Pictures and Works of Art were purchased on behalf of the Cor- 

 poration :— 



Oil Paintings — 



" Richard II. Resigning the Crown to BoUngbroke ;" by Sir John Gilbert, R. A. 

 " The Ancestor on the Tapestry ;" by Haynes Williams. 

 " Showery Weather ;" by Joseph Knight. 



Water Colours — 



" Dinner Time at the Quarries — Purbeck ;" by A. D. Fripp. 



Two Water Colour Drawings of Scenery near Bettws-y-Coed, by J. D. Watson, 

 have also been purchased. 



A Water Colour, " The Last Ray of Evening— Shannon Bridge," by Albert 

 Hartland, was purchased from the Autumn Exhibition by the Science and Art 

 Department, South Kensington, for that Museum. 



DONATIONS. 



The following donations have been made to this department : — 



A Marble Bust of Her Majesty the Queen, by Count Gleichen ; presented 

 by Mr. Councillor Pearson. 



Marble Busts of H.R.H. the Duke of Edinburgh and H.I. and R.H. the 

 Duchess of Edinburgh, by Count Gleichen ; presented by the Mayor, Mr. 

 Alderman Walker. 



A reduced copy in Marble, by Fraccorelli, of the Venus de Milo, from the 

 original in the Louvre ; presented, for the Walker Art Gallery, by Mr. James 

 Harrison. 



A Marble Bust of John Finch, Jun., by J. E. Jones ; presented by Mr. John 

 Yeats, LL.D., Chepstow. 



A Terra Cotta Bust of John Everett MillaLs, R.A., by J. E. Boehm, 1871 ; 

 presented by Mr. A. T. Squarey. 



A Plaster Bust of the late Dr. Traill, by S. Gibson ; presented by the Rev. 

 Gilbert Sandbach. 



A Plaster Bust of Charles Dickens, by Giovanni Fontana ; presented by 

 Signor Fontana. 



Three large Oil Paintings, presented by Mr. J. G. Woodhouse, viz. : — " Joseph 

 'Taken into Egypt," by Luca Giordano ; " Joseph Embracing his Father," by 

 the same ; and " Coriolanus Taking Leave of his Wife and Children," Artist 

 unknown. 



