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WALKER ART GALLEY. 



The Gallery has been open to the public on 256 days, and closed for 

 cleaning and re-arrangement on 57 days. 



408,504 persons have visited the Gallery during the year, being a 

 daily average of 1,595. Of this number 63,464 paid for admission to 

 the Autumn Exhibition, and the total also includes 9,280 pupils from 

 schools of various denominations, admitted free by invitation of the 

 Committee. The Committee during the year found it necessary to afford 

 increased facilities to art students copying in the gallery, and in addition 

 to the students' day on Friday, to permit copying every day from 

 8 to 11 a.m. 



The Descriptive Catalogue compiled by the Curator has met with a 

 large sale, more than 16,000 copies having been sold since its publication 

 in July, 1881. 



Ten pictures were lent in August to the Corporation of Southport on 

 the occasion of the visit of the British Association to that town. 



The Committee have arranged with Messrs. Brown, Barnes, and Bell 

 to prepare photographs of the principal works in the Permanent Col- 

 lection, and these will be on sale in the Gallery in a few days. 



The extension of the Walker Art Gallery has been above alluded to. 



It is proposed to open the new rooms in the ensuing autumn, with an 

 exhibition of paintings and works of art on an extensive scale. The 

 applications already made to the Royal Academy and the other Institu- 

 tions of Artists have met with a cordial response, and it is confidently 

 anticipated that the proposed artistic collection will, both in quantity and 

 quality, surpass any demonstration of the kind hitherto made. 

 AUTUMN EXHIBITION OF PICTURES. 



1883. 1882. 

 Number of Pictures and other Works of 



Artexbibited 1,636 1,589 



Number of Pictures sold 226 311 



Amount realized by sales £8,472 10 6 £7,868 3 6 



Season Tickets 2,098 381 3 6 2,592 476 1 



Admissions at one shilling 26,041 1,302 1 28,603 1,430 3 



Ditto sixpence 10,936 273 8 11,967 299 3 6 



Ditto threepence 24.389 304 17 3 26,624 332 16 



Catalogues sold 434 15 9 472 14 6 



Commission on sales 403 13 362 8 9 



Miscellaneous receipts 32 6 10 23 111 



Amount received, exclusive of sales 2,696 5 6 3,010 18 



The following Table will be read with interest by all concerned in the 

 culture of Art : — 



