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Catalogue >Fine Art >  General >  Art Treasures in Manchester: 150 years on Art Treasures in Manchester: 150 years on Tristram Hunt and Victoria Whitfield Manchester in the mid-nineteenth century was a city of industry and commerce - wealthy, to be sure, but also polluted and over-crowded, and certainly not a major cultural centre. A group of Mancunian businessmen was determined to change this. The result was the Art Treasures Exhibition of the United Kingdom of 1857, an exhibition of some 16,000 works borrowed mainly from private owners around the country and housed in a purpose-built ‘art palace’. The show was a huge success, drawing over 1.3 million visitors over 5 months. 88 pages/ 250 x 210 mm / 65 colour illustrations / paperback ISBN 978-0-85667-647-5 Out of print, reprint to be confirmed  Online price: £7.95 / €11.93 To mark the 150th anniversary of the original exhibition, the story of this unprecedented expression of civic pride is retold here. Illustrated with images of many of the original exhibits as well as contemporary photographs and artists’ impressions of the building and displays, it is the story of an event which exemplified the birth of modern attitudes towards art. Published in association with Manchester Art Gallery About the author Dr Tristram Hunt is lecturer in Modern British History at Queen Mary, University of London. Dr Victoria Whitfield is lecturer in Art History and Visual Studies at the University of Manchester.