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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 April 2012
[Bibliographical Note.—This document, not hitherto republished, is reprinted from Appendix No. 7, pp. 67–69 of the Report of the Director of the National Gallery to the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, dated 5th April 1858.]
MR. RUSKIN'S REPORT ON THE TURNER DRAWINGS IN THE NATIONAL GALLERY
The Drawings by Turner in the possession of the Nation may most conveniently be given account of under three heads:—
(1) Drawings arranged for immediate exhibition, or which it is desirable so to arrange.
(2) Drawings which can only be exhibited in the event of the enlargement of the National Gallery.
(3) Drawings which it is not advisable to exhibit with the body of the collection, but of which a portion might be distributed with advantage among Provincial Schools of Art.
CLASS I
The number of drawings of this class placed on the walls of Marlborough House has been already stated in Mr. Wornum's Catalogue of the Pictures of the British School. I confine myself here to an account of those in the National Gallery, which, with few exceptions, have not yet been exhibited. Four hundred of these have been selected for general exhibition, including all the best and most highly finished drawings, 200 of which are already secured in light frames of holly, covering deal, and enclosed in portable mahogany cases, in a mode which I believe will render them conveniently accessible to the public.
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