When exhibitions cost 40p

November 7 2016

Picture: Emily Burns

National Portrait Gallery curator Emily Burns has tweeted this poster of a Lely exhibition held at the NPG in 1978. Admission then was just 40p.

I hear that the NPG is considering a new Lely exhibition. 2018 will be the 400th anniversary of his birth.

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