HANDBOOK TO THE NATIONAL GALLERY
The National Gallery is open to the Public on week-daysthroughout the year. On MONDAYS, TUESDAYS, WEDNESDAYS, and SATURDAYSadmission is free, and the Gallery is open during the followinghours:—
| January | From 10A.M.until 4P.M. |
| February | From 10A.M. until dusk. |
| March | |
| April | From 10A.M.until 6 P.M. |
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| October | From 10A.M.until dusk. |
| November | |
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On THURSDAYS and FRIDAYS (Students' Days) the Gallery is open to thePublic on payment of Sixpence each person, from 11 A.M. to 4P.M. in winter, and from 11 A.M. to 5 P.M.in summer.
On SUNDAYS the Gallery is open, free, from 2 P.M. till dusk,or 6 P.M. (according to the season).
☞ Persons desirous of becoming Studentsshould address the Secretary and Keeper, National Gallery, TrafalgarSquare, S.W.
The National Gallery of British Art ("Tate Gallery") is openunder the same regulations, and during the same hours, as those givenabove, except that Students' Days are Tuesdays and Wednesdays.
COMPILED BY
E. T. COOK
WITH PREFACE BY JOHN RUSKIN, LL.D., D.C.L.
EIGHTH EDITION
MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED
ST. MARTIN'S STREET, LONDON
1922
A picture which is worth buying is also worth seeing. Every noblepicture is a manuscript book, of which only one copy exists, orever can exist. A National Gallery is a great library, of whichthe books must be read upon their shelves (Ruskin:Arrows of the Chace, i. 71).