GRANTS FOR 2008/09
Aberystwyth University, School of Art Collections
 Collection of 20 prints and 4 illustrated volumes by Robin Tanner,
1927-1986
Etchings; 9.4 x 11.3 cm to 34.2 x 30.6 cm (range)
£11,000
 Bodil Manz
Cylinder No 3 , 2007
Porcelain; h 11cm
£472
Acton Scott, Shropshire County Museum Service
 Hoard of 4 coins from Myddle, 1350-69
Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire County Museum
 Hoard of 75 Iron Age coins from Little Horwood
£2,000
£12,900
(2 grants)
Barnard Castle, The Bowes Museum
 Lucien Levy-Dhurmer
The Autumn Bride , c.1896
Oil on panel; 21.5 x 34.2 cm
 Philip Wilson Steer
A View of Barnard Castle from the River, 1896
Oil on canvas; 50.8 x 61 cm
Bath, Bath and North East Somerset Heritage Services
 William Brooker
The Pink Chair, 1953
Oil on canvas; 46 x 61 cm
£9,000
£4,500
£2,875
Bath & North East Somerset Record Office
 Archive of John Jefferys, Town Clerk of Bath, c.1760-1800£2,640
Bedford, Cecil Higgins Art Gallery
 William Burges
Panel designed for Castell Coch, c.1880
Earthenware; 30 tiles, each 15.5 x 15.5cm
Birmingham City Museums & Art Gallery
 William Henry Fisk
Portrait of Frederick George Stephens, c.1882
Oil on canvas; 76.2 x 63.5 cm
 Matthew Boulton and Ami Argand
Two Argand lamps, c.1795 and c.1809
Silver; 54.5 x 32.5 and 63.5 x 38 cm
 William Ernest Reynolds-Stephens
Happy in Beauty, Life and Love and Everything, 1896
Copper & bronze; 51 x 40 cm
£10,000
£10,000
£7,188
£3,000
Brighton, Sussex University Library
 Collection of Baldwin family papers concerning Rudyard Kipling and
his family, 1875-1945
£16,750
Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum

Pablo Picasso
Sueño y Mentira de Franco (Dreams and Lies of Franco) portfolio
by Pablo Picasso, 1937
Etching & aquatint; 31.7 x 42 cm (plate)
£3,815
Cambridge, Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology
 Brook Andrew
Two paintings:
The Island (Red Mound)
The Island II (Blue Figures)
Mixed media on linen; 250 x 300 cm (each)
Cambridge, Scott Polar Research Institute
 Isak of Igdlorpait
Sketchbook illustrating life in Greenland
Ink & watercolour; 10.5 x 17 cm
£11,682
£8,250
Canterbury City Museums
 Reginald Bell
2 cartoons commisioned for Canterbury Hospital by Clayton & Bell,
1937
watercolour; 45 x 69.9 cm (each)
£750
Carlisle, Cumbria Archive Service
 9 diaries and commonplace books of William Fleming of Rowe Head,
Pennington, 1800-21
£2,500
Cheltenham, The Holst Birthplace Museum
 Oliver Bernard
Set design for Holst’s The Perfect Fool, 5 May 1923
Gouache; 30 x 47 cm
£750
Chester, Cheshire & Chester Archives & Local Studies Service
 Collection of deeds relating to the Mascy family of Rixton &
Glazebrook,
13th-17th century
£2,500
Chester, Grosvenor Museum
 Portrait of George Lloyd, Bishop of Chester, English School, 1606
Oil on panel; 55.4 x 41.2 cm
£3,500
Chichester District Museum
 Mourning ring from Boxgrove, 17th century
Gold; 2.1 cm diameter
Colchester Museums
 Pendant from Mountessing, 16th century
Gold, enamel, diamonds & ruby; 2 x 2 cm
£275
£5,000
Cookham, Stanley Spencer Gallery
 Stanley Spencer
Study for Christ Preaching at the Cookham Regatta: Listening from
Punts, 1954
Pencil; 50.5 x 74 cm
£3,600
Doncaster Museum & Art Gallery
 Terence Cuneo
Giants Refreshed, Pacifics in the Doncaster Locomotive Works,
January 1947
Oil on canvas; 79.4 x 122 cm
£20,000
Dorchester, Dorset History Centre
 Group of designs for Poole Pottery, 20th century
Watercolour and pencil
Exeter, Royal Albert Memorial Museum
 Pompeo Batoni
Portrait of John Rolle Walter, c.1752-53
Oil on canvas; 101.7 x 76.7 cm
£50,000
Falmouth Art Gallery
 Charles Napier Hemy
Along Shore Fishermen, 1890
Oil on canvas; 56 x 76.2 cm
£4,800
Harrogate Museums & Art Gallery Service
 William Powell Frith
Sketch for A Private View, 1882
Oil on canvas; 60 x 114 cm
Hawarden, Flintshire Record Office
 Illuminated royal letters patent of Mary I,
£5,600
£46,637
9 May 1554 £3,037
Haworth, Brontë Parsonage Museum
 Collection of papers of Francis Leyland, 1857-86
£2,250
 Letter to W S Williams from Charlotte Brontë, 13 January 1848
£12,000
Hertford, Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies
 The archive of the Delmé-Radcliffe family of Hitchin Priory, 12641944
£40,000
Huntingdon, Cromwell Museum
 Louis Hague
Cromwell at prayer before battle, 1869
Watercolour; 56 x 108 cm
Leeds Museums and Galleries
 Vivienne Westwood
Jacket, 1999
Printed silk
 Rupert Spira
Open Bowl, 2007-8
Ceramic; h 13 cm
 Garniture of 3 vases, c.1760
Derby porcelain; h 28.5 cm (1) and h 26 cm (2)
 Peter Hide
Fastback, 1974
£390
£720
£1,600
£2,000

Steel; 46 x 101 x 62 cm
Isaac Witkin
Birth, 1962
Wood; 91 x 81 x 36 cm
Leicester City Museum Service
 Chila Kumari Burman
Fly Girl in Harlem 1996-2003, 2006
Inkjet print; 118.9 x 84.1 cm
£2,250
5,000
£250
Leicester, Record Office for Leicesteshire, Leicester and Rutland
 Letter from George to Robert Stephenson about labour at Snibston
Colliery,
13 May 1833
£600
Lewes, East Sussex Record Office
 John Rowe
The Book of John Rowe a survey of the Baroney of Lewes, , c.1635
£4,000
 J T Case
Portfolio of 15 photographs of Lewes, 1857
20.7 x 28.7 cm
£250
Lincoln, Lincolnshire Museums Service
 Roman knife handle from Syston
Copper alloy; l 6.4 cm
Liverpool University, Victoria Gallery and Museum
 Maurice Cockrill
Nocturne to the City, 1979
Oil on canvas; 202.5 x 304.5 cm
£487
£4,020
Llandrindod Wells, Powys County Archive Service
 Diary of Katherine Williams of Bryngwyn, 1870
£310
London, Cartoon Museum
 Kenneth Bird Fougasse
On the Beach, 1954
Ink on board; 29.8 x 39.4 cm
£750
London, Jewish Museum
 Daniel Lehrer
Ner tamid (eternal light), 2004
Silver and amethyst; 50 x 12 cm
£2,000
London, Lambeth Palace Library
 Robert Pullen
Sermones de Communibus Sanctorum, 12th century
£14,040
London, Museum of London
 Julian Perry
Shed 54 and Rhubarb, 2007
Oil on board; 152 x 244 cm
 12 coins from the Beulah Hill Hoard, 1282-1369
£6,500
£3,750
London, Royal Institute of British Architects Library
 William Kent
Four designs for ceilings, 1743-8
Pen & ink; 25.8 x 39.5 cm
£10,000
London, The Women’s Library
 Hilda M Dallas (designer)
Poster advertising the journal Votes for Women, c.1914
Lithograph; 53 x 78 cm
£1,750
Manchester University, John Rylands Library
 The Jamison family archive, 1830-1900
£20,000
Manchester University, Whitworth Art Gallery
 Lynn Hershmann Leeson
Roberta Breitmore, 1974-78
Mixed media
£50,000
Middlesbrough Museums & Galleries
 Edmund de Waal
Wunderkammer, 2007
342 porcelain vessels in a birch ply and steel container; 150 x 150
x 350 cm
£20,000
Monmouth, Monmouthshire Museums Service
 John Varley
Tintern Abbey, 1832
Watercolour; 30.5 x 55.8 cm
Newcastle, Tyne & Wear Museums Service
 Caron Penney, Katherine Swailes and Jo Holland
Citrus Sinensis, 2007
Wool tapestry triptych; 50 x 50 cm (each panel)
 Halima Cassell
Pyrogyro, 2007
Unglazed clay; 30 cm diameter
 Kon Tors
Acetate recording, c.1962
£2,500
£2,500
£750
£352
Newcastle, Tyne & Wear Archives Department
 Account book of Thomas Salkeld of Newcastle, tailor, 1692-5£1,800
Norwich, Norfolk Museums Service
 William Absolon of Yarmouth
Set of 11 commemorative glasses, c.1792-3
Green glass; 10 x 6.3 cm to 13.5 x 8.7 cm (range)
 Group of 3 pots:
Lucie Rie and Hans Coper
Bowl, c.1950s
Stoneware; 15 x 30.5 cm
Bernard Leach
Tree of Life, c.1950s
£2,500
Stoneware; 18 x 14 cm
Shoji Hamada
Vase, c.1950s
Stoneware; 23 x 15 cm
£2,000
 Olive Edis
Collection of photographic equipment, prints and negatives,
c.1905-55
£12,000
 Pierre-Jean David D’Angers
Portrait bust of Amelia Opie, 1836
Marble; 69 x 42.5 x 28 cm
£6,000
Norwich, University of East Anglia Art Collection
 Jean Spencer
Two works:
Square Relief 4, 1968
Wood with PVA; 61 x 61 cm
Untitled (Green and Blue Square), 1990
Pastel; 71 x 71 cm
£6,300
Oldham, Gallery Oldham
 Theodore Major
Wigan Landscape ,1960s
Oil on board; 76.2 x 94 cm
£9,000
Oxford, Ashmolean Museum
 Length of chintz from the Coromandel Coast, India, c.1700-40
245 x 132 cm
£8,718
 English delftware jug, c.1620-40
Tin glazed earthernware; h 28 cm
£40,000
Oxford, Bodleian Library
 Samuel Palmer
Collection of 132 letters to the Redgrave family, 1857-80
£24,000
 Francesco Cavalli
Manuscript in English for the opera Erismena, c.1670
£30,000
Oxford, Oxfordshire Record Office
 Group of 19 deeds for land at Rotherfields Greys, c.14th- 16th
centuries
£2,250
Penzance, Penlee House Gallery & Museum
 Bryan Pearce
Penzance Harbour, 1963
Oil on board; 52 x 154 cm
£19,500
Plymouth City Museum & Art Gallery
 Ambrose Bowden Johns
Plymouth From Mutley, c.1825-50
Oil on canvas; 56.5 x 72.5 cm
£734
Reading University Library
 Archive of letters, manuscripts and books relating to Samuel
Beckett,
c.20th century
£40,000
Retford, Bassetlaw Museum
 Anglo-Saxon brooch from Rampton
Copper alloy, gilt and silvered; l 15.5 cm
£2,100
Richmond, Richmondshire Museum
 Seal matrix from Brompton on Swale, 14th century
£1,850
Salisbury & South Wiltshire Museum
 Hoard of 5 coins and a ring from Brixton Deverill, 16th century
£860
Salisbury, John Creasey Museum
 Frank Auerbach
Ruth II, 1994
Aquatint; 38 x 32 cm
Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire Museum
 Coin hoard from Bigby, c.1204-1210
Southampton City Museums & Art Gallery
 Philip Allen
Shallow Level Sequence, Version II,2004
Oil on board; 152 x 122 cm
 Eva Rothschild
Blackout, 2007
Becchwood & perspex; 107 x 48 x 48 cm
 Nigel Cooke
Painters Lunch, 2008
Oil on canvas; 60.2 x 80 cm
 George Shaw
Almost Lost (I), 2007
Charcoal; 136 x 167 cm
Swansea Museum Service
 Laura Ford
Beast sculpture, 2005
Steel, plaster and mixed media; 126 x 68 x 64 cm
£1.300
£275
£2,800
£6,500
£13,500
£3,000
£6,000
Swindon, National Trust
Nostell Priory
 Chinese export famille rose punch bowl, c.1788
Porcelain; diameter 37.3 cm
£10,000
Oxburgh Hall
 Angelica Kauffman
Portrait of May Middleton, Mrs Ralph Clavering, c.1780
Oil on canvas; 74 x 61.5 cm
£10,400
Waltham Abbey, Epping Forest District Museum
 Jacob Epstein
Glade in Epping Forest, c.1945
Watetcolour and gouache; 43.5 x 58.5 cm
£2,375
Whitby, Captain Cook Memorial Museum
 William Hodges
Matavi Bay, Tahiti, 1773-4
Watercolour; 37.6 x 54.3 cm
£7,000
Whitehaven, The Beacon
 Robert Salmon
Looking South Across Whitehaven Harbour in a Flat Calm, c.1815
Oil on canvas; 52 x 78.8 cm
£13,000
Winchester, The King’s Royal Hussars Museum
 Medal group to Major General JFB Coombe, c.1914-62
£5,875
Winchester Museums
 Captain John Durrant
The West Front of Winchester Cathedral from the St Cross Road,
c.1803-13
Watercolour; 17.6 x 22.6 cm
£675
Wolverhampton Art Gallery and Museums
 Jann Haworth
Still Life with Donuts, 1962
Fabric, thread, kapok; 57.2 x 69 x 58.8 cm
£6,750
York, Merchant Adventurers’ Hall
 Francis Bryce of York
Cup, 1636-7
Silver; h 19.69 cm
£3,700
York Museums
 Felicity Aylieff
Hua De Tu An, Flower Pictures II, 2007
Porcelain; h 200 cm; 65 cm diameter
 Roman military diploma of discharge from near Scarborough
Copper alloy; fragmented
£350
Total £785,652