Identity area
Reference code
GB 891 RAS SESQ-RAS SESQ/10-RAS SESQ/10/10
Title
National Portrait Gallery
Date(s)
- 1969 (Creation)
Level of description
File
Extent and medium
1 item typed
Context area
Name of creator
(1856 -)
Administrative history
The National Portrait Gallery (NPG) is an art gallery in London that houses a collection of portraits of historically important and famous British people. When it opened in 1856, it was arguably the first national public gallery in the world that was… read more
Repository
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Letter from Roy Strong, National Portrait Gallery, to C.F. Beckingham, President, Royal Asiatic Society, to inform him that the gallery would be interested in holding a historical exhibition on British travellers in the East. He will write again if this… read more
Conditions of access and use area
Language of material
- English
Access points
Subject access points
Place access points
Name access points
- National Portrait Gallery (Subject)