| Collection | Victorian Papers, Main Series |
| Description | 'Eleventh Report of the Commissioners on the Fine Arts, with appendix. Presented to both Houses of Parliament by Command of Her Majesty.' Reporting that 18 metal statues, representing the principal persons who signed Magna Carta, have been completed. Also that the marble statues in St. Stephen's Hall have also been completed, as have portraits undertaken by Richard Burchett and models of bas-reliefs by William Theed. They also report that due to poor lighting in the Painted Chamber, the agreement with Daniel Maclise to decorate the space with frescoes has been cancelled at the artist's request. Furthermore the proposed oil-paintings in the principal corridors have been changed to frescoes as experiments proved the surface of the oil-paintings to be too shiny for the space. They further report on proposed commissions and that the Treasury had granted the commission an annual expenditure of £4,000.
Also includes a plan as an 'Explanation of a mode of preparing grounds for frescoes of movable slabs of slate'.
Commissioners listed as; Albert, Sutherland, Newcastle, Lansdowne, Aberdeen, Carlisle, Stanhope, Palmerston, J. Russell, Eversley, Willoughby D'Eresby, Lyndhurst, Macaulay, John Evelyn Denison, J.R.G. Graham, B. Hall, B. Hawes and H. Hallam. |