The Art Treasures of Great Britain exhibition,…
October 1857 CE
With over sixteen thousand works on display, it has attracted over one million three hundred thousand visitors in the one hundred and forty-two days it is open, about four times the population of Manchester at this time, many of whom have visited on organized railway excursions.
Its selection and display of artworks will have a formative influence on the public art collections that are now being established in the UK, such as the National Gallery, National Portrait Gallery and the Victoria and Albert Museum
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