MLA/V&A Purchase Grant Fund
Grants 2006/07
Aberystwyth, University of Wales Art Collection
 Julian Stair
Teapot and 3 cups, 2005
Ceramic; h 26 cm; plinths 28 x 28 x 5 and 10 x 5 x 28 cm
£1,000
 Philip Eglin
Figure of seated woman, 2006
Ceramic; 50 x 16 x 23 cm
£2,000
Abingdon Museum
 Snuff box inscribed Bennett Gleed. Barge Master. Abingdon,
1725-50
Tortoiseshell with silver mounts; 8.8 x 7.5 x 2.6 cm
£700
Acton Scott, Shropshire County Museum Service
 Anglo-Saxon pendant from West Shropshire
Gold and garnet; 3.4 x 2.5 cm
£5,000
Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire County Museum
 Anglo-Saxon pendant from Hambleden
Gold; 3cm (diameter)
£1,000
Bath and North-East Somerset Record Office
 Group of 68 letters from Rowland Leffever to Richard Nash,
1752-61
£2,040
Bedford, The Bedford Museum
 Posy ring from Edworth, late 17th or early 18th century
Gold and enamel; 2 cm (diameter)
 Late Roman coin hoard from Bedford
£260
£350
Birmingham City Museum and Art Gallery
 Portraits of Edward and Elizabeth Holte of Aston Hall by
Cornelius Johnson,
c.1636
oil on canvas; 76 x 63.5 cm (each)
£12,000
Birmingham University, Barber Institute of Fine Arts
 Percy Wyndham Lewis
The Artist’s Wife, Froanna, 1940
Pencil and coloured chalks; 48 x 31 cm
£10,000
Bolton Museum and Art Gallery
 Egyptian figurative sculpture, c.1750-1550 BC
Steatite; h 19.2 cm
£15,000
Bradford Museums, Galleries and Heritage
 Chinese export screen from Cliffe Castle, 1878
Hardwood with embroidered silk panels; 192 x 58 cm per fold
£2,760
Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery
 Roman coin hoard from Thornbury
£5,000
 Edward Villiers Rippingille
Portrait of Jane Moresley, 1827
Oil on card; 40.5 x 32.5 cm
£2,750
 Bristol Pottery barrel and watch holder, 1820-35
Earthenware; 28.2 x 15.2 cm (barrel) and 24 x 14.5 cm (watch
holder)
£2,000
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 Lily Chinese vase, early 20 century
Glass; h 23cm
£504
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 Group of 3 Chinese vases, c.18-19 century
Cloisonné enamel; h 34.5 cm to h 37.4 cm (range)
£1,125
Burton Constable House
 George Romney
Portrait of Lady Clifford Constable, 1789
Oil on canvas; 74 x 61.5 cm
Bushey Museum and Art Gallery
 William Henry Hunt
Children in Aldenham Church, c.1820
Watercolour; 44 x 32 cm
£15,000
£2,100
Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum
 Frederick Cayley Robinson and Sidney Sime
Group of 7 poster and theatre designs for The Bluebird,
c.1909
£15,000
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Katsushika Hokusai
Convolvulus and Tree Frog, c.1832
Woodblock print; 26.3 x 38.5 cm
Pablo Picasso
Two works:
Femme Torero, 1934
La Grande Corrida avec Femme Torero, 1934
Etching; 49.6 x 69.2 cm and 49 x 69 cm
£15,000
£10,000
Cambridge, King’s College Library
 Group of 28 letters and 2 volumes from Clive Bell to Bertha
Penrose,
1926-1929
£4,550
Canterbury City Museums
 Henry Gibbs
Portrait of Thomas Oxenden, 1643
Oil on canvas; 76.2 x 63.5 cm
 Anglo-Saxon pendant from Northbourne
Gold; w 2.2 cm
 Anthony Devis
View of Goodnestone Park, c.1790
£5,000
£750
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Pen, ink and watercolour; 30 x 43 cm
Roman ring with intaglio from Denton
Gold and carnelian; 2.6 cm (diameter)
Cardiff Castle
 H Axel Haig (attributed)
New Tower, Cardiff Castle, 1869-70
Watercolour; 71 x 50 cm
Cardiff, Glamorgan Record Office
 Collection of c.450 playbills for the Theatre Royal,
Cardiff, 1885-1895
£600
£750
£16,250
£2,000
Cardiff, Regimental Museum 1st The Queen’s Dragoon Guards
 Officer’s bicorn, 1st Dragoon Guards, early 19th century £881
Carlisle, Border and King’s Own Royal Border Regiment Museum
 Ephemera and uniform of Lieutenant W S Paton, 1914-16 £4,000
Carmarthen, Carmarthenshire County Museum
 Pair of plates bearing the arms of the Lloyd and Vaughan
families, c.1750
£1,320
Caterham, East Surrey Museum
 Collection of 2,174 topographical postcards, c.1900-40£2,500
Chalfont St Giles, Milton’s Cottage
 John Milton
Volume containing Of True Religion and The Doctrine and
Discipline
of Divorce, 1645 and 1673
£1,000
Chelmsford Museums
 Two Roman plates from Chelmsford
Pewter; 36 cm (diameter) and 38 cm (diameter)
 Catharni Stern
London Underground, 1954
Watercolour; 36 x 44.5 cm
 Hoard of Roman jet jewellery from Chelmsford
£500
£375
£1,875
Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museum
 Stanley Spencer
Us in Glos, 1939-40
Pencil on paper; 40.5 x 28 cm
£1,400
 Ernest Gimson
Collector’s cabinet on stand, c.1902-5
Rosewood, macassar ebony and satinwood veneers with silver
handles;
124 x 94 x 41 cm
£15,000
 Chinese export painting of Oriel Lodge, Cheltenham, 1823-38
Oil on canvas; 15.2 x 21.5 cm
£1,750
Chester, Grosvenor Museum
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Studio of Quinten Metsys
Christ Blessing, c.1520-1530
Oil on wood panel; 73 x 50 cm
£2,500
Chichester District Museum
 Strap-end and terminal from Aldingbourne, late 14th-early
15th century
Silver gilt and gold; l 5.2 and 2.8 cm
£1,100
Cirencester, Cotswold Museums & Art Service
 Bronze Age metalwork hoard from Poulton Priory
Gold and bronze
Colchester Museums
 John Vine
Pair of paintings depicting a
Oil on canvas; 48 x 61 cm and
 Group of 8 Iron Age and Roman
 Anglo-Saxon sword pommel from
Gold; 2.4 x 4.3 cm
horse and a dog
46 x 59.5 cm
coins from Weeley
Ardleigh
£4,800
£3,450
£600
£2,250
Devizes, Wiltshire Heritage Museum
 Merchant’s finger ring from Malmesbury, late 15th-early 16th
century
Silver; 2.5 cm (diameter)
£290
 Album of drawings of Stoke House, Erlestoke and Wiltshire
views by
A A Macklin, 1817-19
£1,250
 S-form link from a chain or collar from Urchfont, late 14th15th century
Gold; 1.5 x 1.2 cm
£825
Ditchling Museum
 Evan Gill collection of books, papers, juvenilia and
ephemera,
20th century
£25,000
Doncaster Museum and Art Gallery
 Two Anglo-Saxon buckle fragments from Doncaster
Silver inlaid with gold; 2.4 x 2.5 cm
Dorchester, Dorset County Museum
 Iron Age coin hoard from Corfe
 Medieval coin hoard from Okeford Fitzpaine
Dover Museum
 Collection of 460 topographical postcards, 1900-1930
14 x 9 cm
Dudley Museums and Art Gallery
£700
£1,400
£500
£750
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Thomas Webb & Sons of Stourbridge
Cameo vase, c.1885
Glass; h 18 cm
£4,062
Stevens and Williams
Pair of decanters with engraving attributed to Schiller,
c.1873
Glass; h 24 cm
£1,500
Bob Crooks
Open Flower Bowl, 2006
Glass; h 31.5 cm
£500
Exeter, Devon Record Office
 The Herbert Read archive, 1888-c.1975
£5,000
Exeter, Royal Albert Memorial Museum
 John White Abbott
Group of 16 topographical drawings, c.1787-1809
Pencil, pen and wash on paper; 13 x 19.5 cm to 18.3 x 26.7
cm (range)
£4,400
 Francis Hayman
Portrait of a lady (? Mrs Hayman), c.1735
Oil on canvas; 63 x 44 cm
£5,500
Exeter University Library
 Papers of Ernest W Martin, c.1900-2002
Falmouth Art Gallery
 Sir Frank Brangwyn
Constructing South Pier, Mevagissy, 1888
Oil on canvas; 51 x 76 cm
 Trevor Bell
Five Bar, 1972
Acrylic on canvas; 120 x 288 cm
£2,000
£9,000
£10,000
Falmouth, National Maritime Museum Cornwall
 Naval sabre presented to William MacDonnell of the Falmouth
packet The Duke of Marlborough, 1814
Ormolu; blade 73.3 cm, hilt 15-20 cm
£3,900
Godalming Museum
 Archibald Thorburn
Wildfowl on the Shore, 1905
Watercolour; 38 x 60 cm
£7,000
Grasmere, Wordsworth Museum
 George Dawe
Portrait of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, c.1811
Pencil and chalk on paper; 59 x 42 cm
£9.840
 William Wordsworth
The White Doe of Rylstone, first edition annotated by
Mary Wordsworth, 1815
£4,500
Hastings Museum and Art Gallery

J M W Turner
Drawing of Hastings fishmarket, 1824
Watercolour; 44 x 66 cm
£21,000
Haverfordwest Town Museum
 Samuel Prout
Drawing of the Augustinian Priory at Haverfordwest, early
19th century
Watercolour; 27.9 x 38.1 cm
£950
Haworth, Brontë Parsonage Museum
 Letter from Charlotte Brontë to William Smith, 27 August
1850
£9,187
Hereford, Herefordshire Heritage Services
 Armorial seal matrix from Much Dewchurch, late 15th-16th
century
£1,250
Hertford, Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies
 Collection of 72 envelopes addressed to Rosina Bulwer
Lytton, 1851
Paper; 5.4 x 9.6 cm
£450
High Wycombe, Wycombe Local History & Chair Museum
 Windsor chair attributed to John Pitt of Slough, c.1730-1759
Beech, walnut, fruitwood and elm; 108 x 66 x 50 cm
£8,500
Ipswich Museums and Art Gallery
 Cup and cover presented to Sir Philip Bowes Vere Broke of
HMS
Shannon by the Free and Easy Club, Ipswich, 1813-1814
Silver; h 35.5 cm
£30,000
Lancaster City Museum
 Roman tombstone from Lancaster
Sandstone; 178 x 90 x 15 cm
 Collection of 26 tiles by Shrigley and Hunt, c.1880s
Ceramic; 20.5 x 20.5 cm (each)
£8,000
£1,100
Lancaster, Museum of the King’s Own Royal Regiment
 Memorial plaque to 2nd Lieutenant Joseph Henry Collin, 191925
Bronze; 12 cm (diameter)
£1,207
Leamington Spa Art Gallery & Museum
 Common Culture
Bouncers, suite of 15 images, 2006
C-type prints from digital photographs; 50.8 x 50.8 cm
(each)
£3,000
Leeds Museums and Galleries
 Cabinet by Hummerstons, Leeds, c.1880
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Ebonised wood; 160 x 132 x 35.5 cm
Writing table owned by the 2nd Earl Grey, c.1825-30
Rosewood, gilt wood and ormolu; 74 x 117 x 60 cm
Hermon Cawthra
The Agitator, 1921
Bronze; 42.5 x 21 x 31 cm
Jacob Epstein
Flenite Relief, 1913
Serpentine stone; 30.5 x 28 x 9 cm
Stuart Brisley
Untitled sculpture, c.1962-63
Mixed media; 51 x 31.5 cm
WJ Neatby
The Stayble Man Burmantoft’s pottery plaque
Glazed earthenware; 50 x 31 cm
Leicester City Museum Service
 Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Sailing Boat off Lake Fehmarn, 1914
Woodcut; 41.8 x 39.5 cm
Letchworth, North Hertfordshire Museums
 William Ratcliffe
Studio Interior, 1914
Oil on pulp board; 49.5 x 49.5 cm
London, Ben Uri Gallery
 Frank Auerbach
Mornington Crescent – Summer Morning II, 2005
Oil on board; 51 x 51 cm
London, Bromley Museum
 Decimus Burton
Drawing of Holwood House, Kent, c.1828
Pen, ink and watercolour; 40 x 63 cm
London, Geffrye Museum
 Pair of chairs with turkey-work upholstery, c.1685
Beech frame, wool; 104 x 54 x 45 cm (each)
 Group of 8 chairs, c.1685-1700
Walnut and cane; 115 x 49 cm to 119 x 59 cm (range)
£3,400
£18,000
£2,000
£31,248
£2,000
£750
£25,000
£9,315
£15,000
£850
£4,000
£1,300
London, Leighton House Museum
 Antonio Rossellino
Relief of Madonna & child, owned by Frederic Lord Leighton,
late 15th century
Terracotta; 70 x 48 cm
£28,800
 Frederic, Lord Leighton
Portrait of Carlo Perugini, 1855
Oil on canvas; 35.5 x 30 cm
£8,000
London, London’s Transport Museum

Group of 4 London County Council Tramways posters
£1,572
73 x 36 cm to 153 x 102 cm (range)
(4 grants)
London, Museum of London
 Stephen Willats
Working Within a Defined Context, 1978
Four mixed media panels; 152 x 76 cm (each)
£4,000
London, Museum of Methodism
 Sampler depicting John Wesley’s Chapel,1798
Coloured silks; 48.3 x 47 cm
£456
London, Postal Heritage Trust
 E H Shepard
Brighter Post Offices artwork for Punch illustration, 1929
Pen & ink; 19.5 x 30.5 cm
£1,000
 Group of 6 envelopes addressed to Mrs Burns, Box 111
Bletchley, 1944-45
£400
London, Royal Institute of British Architects Library
 Collection of drawings & archives of Philip Tilden, c.192149
£2,500
 Sir James Thornhill
Design for the chimneypiece at Briggens, 1720
Pen & ink; 23 x 16.5 cm
£800
London, Southwark, Cuming Museum
 Cyril Farey
View of Southwark Cathedral, May 1944
Watercolour and gouache; 49 x 32 cm
 William Townsend
Chiswick Reach I, 1948
Oil on canvas; 71.3 x 91.6 cm
£850
£5,000
London, Walthamstow, William Morris Gallery
 Sir Edward Burne-Jones
The Judgement of Paris, tile panel designed for Morris,
Marshall,
Faulkner, c.1862-3
Tin-glazed earthenware; 15 x 15 cm
£6,240
London, Wandsworth Museum
 Robert Walker
Portrait of Sir Alan Brodrick, 1650s
Oil on canvas; 90 x 76 cm
£4,500
Manchester City Galleries
 Christian Dior
Ensemble owned by the Duchess of Windsor, 1949
Silk; 86 cm (bust), 56 cm (waist)
£5,100
Manchester University, Whitworth Art Gallery
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Walter Crane
Study for The Laidley Worm of Spindleston Heugh, c.1880
Brown wash; 15 x 44 cm
£4,000
George Frederick Watts
Group of 4 drawings, 1891
Red chalk; 70 x 49 cm (each)
£10,000
Eduardo Paolozzi
Moonstrips Empire News, portfolio of 92 prints, 1967 £2,000
Middlesbrough Museum & Galleries
 Christopher Dresser
Vase, 1879-89
Earthenware; h 19.5 cm
£276
Mold, Flintshire Museums Service
 Finger ring from Nercwys, 9th-10th century
Gold; 1.7 cm (diameter)
£750
Monmouth, Monmouthshire Museums Service
 Michael Angelo Rooker
Two works:
Coldwell, on the River Wye, c.1789
New Weir, on the River Wye, c.1789
Watercolour; 30.2 x 48 cm (each)
£2,800
Newbury, West Berkshire Museum
 Group of 5 Bronze Age arm or neck rings and bracelets from
Crow Down
Gold; 12.3 x 7.5 cm to 7.4 x 6.2 cm (range)
£35,000
Newcastle-upon-Tyne, The Light Dragoons (15th/19th King’s Royal
Hussars) Museum
 Troopers full dress pelisse, 15th Hussars, 1852
£1,250
Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Tyne & Wear Archives Department
 Journal of ship surgeon James Williamson, 1860s
£1,481
Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Tyne and Wear Museums Service
 Rose bowl presented to Leonard Peskett, chief designer of
the
Mauretania, 1907
Enamelled silver and wood; 24 x 28 cm
£2,280
 David Reekie
Sitting on the Fence II, 2003
Glass with wooden base; 78 x 64 x 34 cm
£5,000
 Luke Clennell
Launching the Lifeboat, 1810
Watercolour; 43.8 x 70.5 cm
£4,500
Newport, Isle of Wight Museum Service
 Philippe de Loutherbourg and Thomas Walmsely
Group of 7 topographical prints and drawings, 1803-11
Pen and ink (2) and aquatint (5); 68 x 49 cm to 31.5 x 19.3
cm (range)
£2,850
Northampton, Northamptonshire Record Office
 Cartwright of Anyho archive, 13th – 20th century
£60,000
Norwich, Norfolk County Record Office
 The archive of Reverend William Gunn, 1744-1844
£15,000
Norwich, Norfolk Museums Service
 David Watkins
Fantail neckpiece, 2005
Aluminium; 31 cm (diameter)
 Towler and Campin
Shawl woven for The Great Exhibition, 1849-51
Silk and wool; 350.5 x 162.5 cm
 Hoard of 7 Bronze Age bracelets from Foxley
Gold; 5.7 cm to 6.75 cm diameter (range)
 William Absolon Junior of Great Yarmouth
Goblet, c.1800
Green glass with black enamel; 13cm
 Bronze Age metalwork hoard from Eaton
Copper-alloy; 2 cm to 18 cm (range)
 Anglo-Saxon coin pendant and bead from Reepham
Gold; 2cm (diameter) and 1.3 cm (diameter)
Oldham, Gallery Oldham
 Julian Stair
Funerary Jar, 2005
Oxidised etruria marl; 23 x 21 cm
 Claire Curneen
Daphne, 2005
Porcelain; h 36 cm
£700
£3,500
£12,500
£6,000
£4,000
£450
£787
£1,260
Olney, Cowper & Newton Museum
 Collection of 171 letters from the Cowper Johnson archive,
c.1755-1807
£6,448
Oxford, Ashmolean Museum
 Tureen in the form of a boar’s head c. 1754-1756
Chelsea porcelain; l 39 cm
£35,000
 William Holman Hunt
Four albums of drawings, c.1852-1892
Pencil or pen and ink; 27.5 x 21.5 cm to 34.2 x 27.3 cm
(range)
£5,000
Oxford, Oxfordshire County Museum
 Roman millefiori stud from Oxfordshire
Enamelled bronze; 4.9 cm (diameter)
£1,130
Penrith Museum
 Jacob Thompson of Penrith
The Height of Ambition, 1864
Oil on canvas; 68.5 x 101.5 cm
£4,500
Penzance, Penlee House Gallery and Museum
 Harold Harvey
In the Whiting Ground, c.1900
Oil on canvas; 62 x 75 cm
 Stanhope Forbes
Study for Fish Sale on a Cornish Beach, 1884
Oil on canvas; 15 x 20 cm
£15,000
£8,014
Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery
 Lisa Cheung
Two ceramic pieces:
English Junk, 2005
Three Graces, 2005
Porcelain; 12 x 5 cm and 9 x 4 cm
£330
 Finger ring from Dunterton, 13th century
Gold and sapphire
£5,000
 Effects of WO F E Dailey RN and ephemera relating to the
National
Antarctic Expedition, 1901-4
£4,080
(2 grants)
 Huntsman’s whistle from West Charleton, 16th-17th century
Silver; l 6.2 cm
£325
 Thomas Allom
Thirty eight sheets of sketches of Devon, c.1829-30
Pencil on paper; 18 x 24.3 cm to 55.2 x 20.5 cm (range) £500
Retford, Bassetlaw Museum
 Figurine of an equestrian knight from Carlton-in-Lindrick,
12th century
Bronze; h 4.95 cm
£1,200
Saffron Walden Museum
 Bronze Age penannular ring from Takeley
Gold and silver
Saffron Walden, Fry Art Gallery
 Edward Bawden
Five prints illustrating Aesop’s Fables, c.1970
Linocut; 40.5 x 55.5 cm
£300
£1,290
(5 grants)
St Albans Museum Service
 Roman coffin from St Albans
Lead; 208 x 58 x 30 cm
£3,500
Salisbury, John Creasey Museum
 David Jones
Sunday Mass: In Homage to G M Hopkins S J 1948, 1948
Watercolour; 55.5 x 37.5 cm
£9,000
Salisbury & South Wiltshire Museum
 Bronze Age penannular bracelet from Donhead St Mary
Gold; l 4.4 cm w 2.9 cm
£300
Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire Museum
 Anglo-Saxon pendant from Newball
Gold; 4 x 1.9 cm
£2,000
Sheffield Galleries and Museums
 James Dixon and Sons, Sheffield
Sugar basin in the form of a coal scuttle, with shovel, 1907
Silver; 12 x 13.5 x 7 cm
£600
Southampton City Museums and Art Gallery
 Bryan Wynter
Monumental, 1956
Oil on canvas; 202 x 101.5 cm
 Bridget Riley
Red Movement, 2005
Oil on canvas; 135.3 x 352.4 cm
Southampton University Library
 Papers of Alan Campbell-Johnson, 1945-1973
£4,000
£25,000
£8,250
Stafford, The William Salt Library
 Two volumes of notes on the history of Staffordshire
compiled by
John Le Neve and the Reverend John Allen, 1717-1778
£2,100
Stoke-on-Trent, The Potteries Museum and Art Gallery
 Anglo-Saxon necklace pendant from Hammerwich
Gold and garnet; 1.35 x 1.2 cm
£550
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 Jug decorated with an image of an 18 century salt glaze
kiln, c.1840
Ironstone china; h 20.4 cm, 15.2 cm (diameter)
£500
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 Gold finger ring from Stowe, 15 century
£1,200
Swindon, National Trust
 Thomas Pitts
Epergne made for Edward Phelips of Montacute House, 1781
Silver; h 38.1 cm
£7,000
Taunton, Somerset County Museum
 George Arnald
The Ruins of Glastonbury Abbey…, c.1810
Oil on canvas; 120 x 147 cm
£10,800
 Bronze Age hoard of gold bracelets and torcs from Priddy
£16,500
Taunton, Somerset Military Museum
 Group of 7 letters from Major General and Lady Sale, 1842-45
£1,187
Trowbridge Museum
 John Fernly of Trowbridge
Longcase clock, c.1775
£3,750
Mahogany; h 250 cm
Truro, Cornwall County Record Office
 Collection of archival material relating to Argal Manor,
16th-20th
centuries
£9,000
Truro, Royal Cornwall Museum
 Lucy Kemp-Welch
Harvesting, 1919
Oil on canvas; 40.9 x 51.1 cm
 Julius Olsson
Sundown, late 19th-early 20th century
Oil on canvas; 45.7 x 61 cm
£4,406
£2,925
Wakefield, West Yorkshire Archive Service
 Archive relating to John Shaw & Sons, woollen manufacturers,
Stainland,
1742-1962
£392
Walsall Museum & Art Gallery
 The Beth Lipkin archive, c.1900-1990
£3,750
Waltham Abbey, Epping Forest District Museum
 Finger ring from Abridge, late 15th-early 16th century
Gold
£1,000
Warwick, Warwickshire County Record Office
 Banham collection of topographical lantern slides and
stereoscopic
Photographs, c.1850s-1920s
£9,000
Whitby, Captain Cook Memorial Museum
 William Hodges
The Resolution in a Stream of Pack Ice, 1772-73
Watercolour; 28 x 22 cm
Winchester, Hampshire County Museum Service
 Anglo-Saxon funerary group from Breamore
£23,400
£5,000
Winchester Museums
 Two groups of Iron Age and Roman coins from Winchester£1,050
(2 grants)
Worcester, The Elgar Birthplace Museum
 Annotated proofs of The Kingdom, oratorio by Sir Edward
Elgar,
1906
£5,400
 Collection of 94 letters and postcards to Charles Buck from
Sir Edward Elgar, 1883-1932
£5,500
Worthing Museum
 John Skelton
The Diver, 1970
Walnut; 125 x 30 x 20 cm
York Museums
 Viking arm ring from York
Gold; 1.5 cm (diameter)
£1,000,993
£4,500
£4,500