GRANTS FOR 2005/06



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) £260

• Late Roman coin hoard from Bedford £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

• Lily Chinese vase, early 20th century

Glass; h 23cm £504

• Group of 3 Chinese vases, c.18-19th 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 £15,000

Bushey Museum and Art Gallery

• William Henry Hunt

Children in Aldenham Church, c.1820

Watercolour; 44 x 32 cm £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

• Katsushika Hokusai

Convolvulus and Tree Frog, c.1832

Woodblock print; 26.3 x 38.5 cm £15,000

• 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 £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 £5,000

• Anglo-Saxon pendant from Northbourne

Gold; w 2.2 cm £750

• Anthony Devis

View of Goodnestone Park, c.1790

Pen, ink and watercolour; 30 x 43 cm £600

• Roman ring with intaglio from Denton

Gold and carnelian; 2.6 cm (diameter) £750

Cardiff Castle

• H Axel Haig (attributed)

New Tower, Cardiff Castle, 1869-70

Watercolour; 71 x 50 cm £16,250

Cardiff, Glamorgan Record Office

• Collection of c.450 playbills for the Theatre Royal, Cardiff, 1885-1895 £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) £500

• Catharni Stern

London Underground, 1954

Watercolour; 36 x 44.5 cm £375

• Hoard of Roman jet jewellery from Chelmsford £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

• 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 £4,800

Colchester Museums

• John Vine

Pair of paintings depicting a horse and a dog

Oil on canvas; 48 x 61 cm and 46 x 59.5 cm £3,450

• Group of 8 Iron Age and Roman coins from Weeley £600

• Anglo-Saxon sword pommel from Ardleigh

Gold; 2.4 x 4.3 cm £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 14th-15th 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 £700

Dorchester, Dorset County Museum

• Iron Age coin hoard from Corfe £1,400

• Medieval coin hoard from Okeford Fitzpaine £500

Dover Museum

• Collection of 460 topographical postcards, 1900-1930

14 x 9 cm £750

Dudley Museums and Art Gallery

• 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 £2,000

Falmouth Art Gallery

• Sir Frank Brangwyn

Constructing South Pier, Mevagissy, 1888

Oil on canvas; 51 x 76 cm £9,000

• Trevor Bell

Five Bar, 1972

Acrylic on canvas; 120 x 288 cm £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 £8,000

• Collection of 26 tiles by Shrigley and Hunt, c.1880s

Ceramic; 20.5 x 20.5 cm (each) £1,100

Lancaster, Museum of the King’s Own Royal Regiment

• Memorial plaque to 2nd Lieutenant Joseph Henry Collin, 1919-25

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

Ebonised wood; 160 x 132 x 35.5 cm £3,400

• Writing table owned by the 2nd Earl Grey, c.1825-30

Rosewood, gilt wood and ormolu; 74 x 117 x 60 cm £18,000

• Hermon Cawthra

The Agitator, 1921

Bronze; 42.5 x 21 x 31 cm £2,000

• Jacob Epstein

Flenite Relief, 1913

Serpentine stone; 30.5 x 28 x 9 cm £31,248

• Stuart Brisley

Untitled sculpture, c.1962-63

Mixed media; 51 x 31.5 cm £2,000

• WJ Neatby

The Stayble Man Burmantoft’s pottery plaque

Glazed earthenware; 50 x 31 cm £750

Leicester City Museum Service

• Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Sailing Boat off Lake Fehmarn, 1914

Woodcut; 41.8 x 39.5 cm £25,000

Letchworth, North Hertfordshire Museums

• William Ratcliffe

Studio Interior, 1914

Oil on pulp board; 49.5 x 49.5 cm £9,315

London, Ben Uri Gallery

• Frank Auerbach

Mornington Crescent – Summer Morning II, 2005

Oil on board; 51 x 51 cm £15,000

London, Bromley Museum

• Decimus Burton

Drawing of Holwood House, Kent, c.1828

Pen, ink and watercolour; 40 x 63 cm £850

London, Geffrye Museum

• Pair of chairs with turkey-work upholstery, c.1685

Beech frame, wool; 104 x 54 x 45 cm (each) £4,000

• Group of 8 chairs, c.1685-1700

Walnut and cane; 115 x 49 cm to 119 x 59 cm (range) £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.1921-49 £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 £850

• William Townsend

Chiswick Reach I, 1948

Oil on canvas; 71.3 x 91.6 cm £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

• 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) £700

• Towler and Campin

Shawl woven for The Great Exhibition, 1849-51

Silk and wool; 350.5 x 162.5 cm £3,500

• Hoard of 7 Bronze Age bracelets from Foxley

Gold; 5.7 cm to 6.75 cm diameter (range) £12,500

• William Absolon Junior of Great Yarmouth

Goblet, c.1800

Green glass with black enamel; 13cm £6,000

• Bronze Age metalwork hoard from Eaton

Copper-alloy; 2 cm to 18 cm (range) £4,000

• Anglo-Saxon coin pendant and bead from Reepham

Gold; 2cm (diameter) and 1.3 cm (diameter) £450

Oldham, Gallery Oldham

• Julian Stair

Funerary Jar, 2005

Oxidised etruria marl; 23 x 21 cm £787

• Claire Curneen

Daphne, 2005

Porcelain; h 36 cm £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 £15,000

• Stanhope Forbes

Study for Fish Sale on a Cornish Beach, 1884

Oil on canvas; 15 x 20 cm £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 £300

Saffron Walden, Fry Art Gallery

• Edward Bawden

Five prints illustrating Aesop’s Fables, c.1970

Linocut; 40.5 x 55.5 cm £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 £4,000

• Bridget Riley

Red Movement, 2005

Oil on canvas; 135.3 x 352.4 cm £25,000

Southampton University Library

• Papers of Alan Campbell-Johnson, 1945-1973 £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

• Jug decorated with an image of an 18th century salt glaze kiln, c.1840

Ironstone china; h 20.4 cm, 15.2 cm (diameter) £500

• Gold finger ring from Stowe, 15th 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 £4,406

• Julius Olsson

Sundown, late 19th-early 20th century

Oil on canvas; 45.7 x 61 cm £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 £23,400

Winchester, Hampshire County Museum Service

• Anglo-Saxon funerary group from Breamore £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 £4,500

York Museums

• Viking arm ring from York

Gold; 1.5 cm (diameter) £4,500

£1,000,993

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