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Caption: Course Catalog - 1898-1899
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36 UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS ART GALLERY The University art gallery was the gift of citizens of Champaign and Urbana. It occupies a room in the basement of Library Building, and furnishes an excellent collection of models for students of art. In sculpture it embraces thirteen full-size casts of celebrated statues, forty statues of reduced size and a large number of busts and bas-reliefs, making in all over four hundred pieces. It includes also hundreds of large autotypes, photographs, and fine engravings, representing many of the great masterpieces of painting of nearly all the modern schools, and a gallery of historical portraits, mostly large French lithographs, copied from the great national portrait galleries of France. Other collections of special value to art students embrace a large number of casts of ornament from the Alhambra and other Spanish buildings, presented by the Spanish government; a set of casts from Germany, illustrating German renaissance ornament; a series of art works from the Columbian Exposition; large numbers of miscellaneous casts, models, prints, and drawings, such as are usually found in the best art schools, and a model in plaster and a complete set of drawings of a competitive design by Henry Lord Gay for a monument to be erected in Rome, commemorative of Victor Emanuel, first king of Italy. LIBRARY The library contains 40,000 volumes and 2,500 pamphlets. The reading room contains 378 periodicals. The library of the State Laboratory of Natural History and that of the Agricultural Experiment Station contain about 7,000 volumes and 16,000 pamphlets. Both these libraries are open to students of the University. The library and the reading room are open every day, except Sunday, from 8 a. m. until 5 p. m., and from 7 p. m. until 9 p. m. on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays.
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