88 ART GALLERY. 
being an average of 1,712 persons per day during the 26 days on 
which the Exhibition was open. The largest attendance was on the 
closing day, 2nd March, when 2,742 (exclusive of schools) paid for 
admission. 
7,840 catalogues were printed, of which 6,295 were sold at 6d. 
each. 767 were given with school tickets. 
A special edition of the catalogue of 50 copies on hand-made paper, 
with the illustrations on Japanese paper, was printed and fully 
subscribed for. 
The tota] receipts amounted to £1,027 1s. Od., which yielded a 
surplus of £458 8s. 4d. 
At this exhibition the plan was initiated of admitting parties from 
schools, so constituted and arranged as to ensure good educational 
results. An effort was made after the exhibition to secure funds 
sufficient for the purpose of purchasing Mr. Holman Hunt’s greatest 
secular work, “Isabella and the Pot of Basil,’’ but, unfortunately, 
the requisite sum could not be obtained during the time allowed by 
the owner. 
The triennial Northern Photographic Exhibition, under the 
management of the Liverpool Amateur Photographic Association, 
was again a great success, and the Committee’s half share of the 
profits of the undertaking amounted to £100. 
The Finnie Memorial Exhibition was rendered possible by the 
postponement of the Historical Exhibition of Liverpool Art to make 
room for the subsequently projected Pageant Exhibition of 
Liverpool Antiquities. The Catalogue, to which the Curator 
contributed a Memoir and portrait, included 440 examples of Mr. 
Finnie’s art, and the Exhibition was most successful. 
A special edition of the Catalogue on hand-made paper was 
issued.. No charge was made for admission, but the profit on the 
sale of Catalogues was so considerable that the net cost of the 
Exhibition was only £21 9s. Od. 
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