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In large museums, a special committee may meet regularly to review potential acquisitions. Once the decision has been made to accept an object, it is formally accessioned through a Deed of Gift and entered into the museum's catalog records. Each object is given a unique catalog number to identify it.
Randolph Caldecott used a double spread (illustration across two pages) for this illustration in The Diverting History of John Gilpin.. Children's illustrated books became fashionable during the Victorian period with an emphasis on the artistic value of the work at a period when the middle and upper classes had funds to spend on books for their offspring.
The Victorian gift book market emerged in a time of mass-production, increased literacy, and growing demand of middle-class buyers. Most gift books were made from 1855 to 1875, the ‘golden age’ of wood-engraved illustration. These books—explicitly intended to be given as gifts—were normally published in late November in time for Christmas.
Milestones Museum of Living History is a museum located on the Leisure Park in Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK.Milestones is made up of a network of streets that have been recreated according to those found in Victorian and 1930s Hampshire.
The Lady Lever Art Gallery is a museum founded and built by the industrialist and philanthropist William Lever, 1st Viscount Leverhulme and opened in 1922. The Lady Lever Art Gallery is set in the garden village of Port Sunlight, on the Wirral and one of the National Museums Liverpool.
An Act to facilitate Gifts of Land for Public Parks, Schools, and Museums. Citation: 34 & 35 Vict. c. 13: Dates; Royal assent: 25 May 1871: Repealed: 13 August 1888: Other legislation; Repealed by: Mortmain and Charitable Uses Act 1888