National Gallery Trafalgar Square Illustrations to the Catalogue Volume III: British, French, & Spanish Schools.

NATIONAL GALLERY,.

$25.00

Item Number: 146552

London: Printed for the Trustees, 1926.

First edition of the last volume in the Official Catalogue of the National Gallery, this volume featuring illustrations comprising the British, French, and Spanish Schools of art. Octavo, original wrappers, illustrated with nearly four hundred reproductions. In very good condition with some toning and light rubbing to the extremities. Accompanied by original dry mounted plates from ‘Thesaurus Austriacus’ on Strathmore notecards and envelopes by DesignsKTB.

The National Gallery is an art museum in Trafalgar Square in the City of Westminster, in Central London, England. Founded in 1824 by financier and art collector Andrew W. Mellon, it houses a collection of more than 2,300 paintings dating from the mid-13th century to 1900. In 1936 Mellon wrote to President Franklin D. Roosevelt to offer his gift of paintings and sculpture for a new museum in Washington, DC, that he would build and finance with his own funds. Roosevelt endorsed Mellon’s offer, and Congress accepted his gift in 1937. At the National Gallery’s dedication, President Roosevelt referred to the Gallery as “a living institution . . . dedicated forever . . . to the use and enjoyment of the people of the United States.”