Aberystwyth University, School of Art Collections

GRANTS 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 £2,000

Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire County Museum

·  Hoard of 75 Iron Age coins from Little Horwood £12,900

(2 grants)

·  Thomas Rowlandson

The Beauties of Stowe: Bacchantes dancing and lounging by the

Temple of Ancient Virtue, c.1804-5

Watercolour; 27.1 x 42.2 cm £10,000

Barnard Castle, The Bowes Museum

·  Lucien Levy-Dhurmer

The Autumn Bride , c.1896

Oil on panel; 21.5 x 34.2 cm £9,000

·  Philip Wilson Steer

A View of Barnard Castle from the River, 1896

Oil on canvas; 50.8 x 61 cm £4,500

Bath and North East Somerset Heritage Services

·  William Brooker

The Pink Chair, 1953

Oil on canvas; 46 x 61 cm £2,875

Bath and 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

Tile panel designed for Castell Coch, c.1880

Earthenware; 30 tiles 15.5 x 15.5 cm (each) £10,000

Birmingham Central Library

·  Hallett/Lorant archive of photojournalism, 1920-2007 £2,500

Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery

·  William Henry Fisk

Portrait of Frederick George Stephens, c.1882

Oil on canvas; 76.2 x 63.5 cm £10,000

·  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 £7,188

·  William Ernest Reynolds-Stephens

Happy in Beauty, Life and Love and Everything, 1896

Copper & bronze relief; 51 x 40 cm £3,000

Brighton Art Gallery, Museums and Royal Pavilion

·  Sabah Naim

Untitled, 2008

Mixed media and photographic print on canvas; 60 x 80 cm £1,573

·  Jane Adam

Group of 3 bangles, 2008

Aluminium 6 x 6 x 5 cm; silver 5 x 6 x 5 cm; gold 4 x 6 x 5 cm £2,000

Brighton, Sussex University Library

·  Collection of Baldwin family papers concerning Rudyard Kipling and

his family, 1875-1945 £16,750

Bristol’s Museums, Galleries and Archives

·  John Field

Rownham Ferry, c.1833

Watercolour; 16.6 x 20.8 cm £1,100

Bristol, SS Great Britain

·  John Kemp

Portrait of Captain John Gray, 1873

Oil on canvas; 89 x 69 cm £7,000

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

·  Anglo-Saxon Agnus Dei type penny of Aethelred II from the Salisbury mint £4,000

·  Pablo Picasso

Minotaure avegule guidé by Marie-Thérèse dans une nuit etoilée

from the Vollard Suite, 1934-5

Aquatint ; 24.7 x 34.8 cm (plate) £25,000

Cambridge, Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

·  Brook Andrew

Two paintings:

The Island (Red Mound)

The Island II (Blue Figures)

Mixed media on linen; 250 x 300 cm (each) £11,682

Cambridge, Scott Polar Research Institute

·  Isak of Igdlorpait

Sketchbook illustrating life in Greenland, c.1895

Ink & watercolour; 10.5 x 17 cm £8,250

Cambridge University, Kettle’s Yard Collection

·  Ian Hamilton Finlay

Kettle’s Yard Cambridge England is the Louvre of the Pebble, 1995

inscribed stone; 14.6 x 9.5 x 1.8 cm £1,750

Canterbury City Museums

·  Reginald Bell

2 cartoons commissioned for Canterbury Hospital, 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

Carlisle Museum and Art Gallery

·  Keith Tyson

Nature painting, 2008

Mixed media on aluminium; 198 x 198 cm £25,000

Cheltenham Art Gallery and Museum Service

·  Anita Taylor

The Tiger Rug, 2006

Ink; 28 x 38 cm £427

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 and Chester Archives and 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 £275

Colchester Museums

·  Pendant from Mountessing, 16th century

Gold, enamel, diamonds & ruby; 2 x 2 cm £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

Derby Museums and Art Gallery

·  Michael Porter

Highlight Through Trees, 2008

Oil & acrylic on canvas; 120 x 110 cm £3,400

Doncaster Museum and 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 County Museum

·  2 hoards of Bronze Age axes from Langton Maltravers £15,000

(2 grants)

Dorchester, Dorset History Centre

·  Group of designs for Poole Pottery, 20th century

Watercolour and pencil £5,600

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

Exeter University Library

·  Group of 19 letters from Daphne Du Maurier to Ivan Magee,

14 December 1960-14 November 1968 £1,600

Falmouth Art Gallery

·  Charles Napier Hemy

Along Shore Fishermen, 1890

Oil on canvas; 56 x 76.2 cm £4,800

Harrogate Museums and Art Gallery Service

·  William Powell Frith

Sketch for A Private View, 1882

Oil on canvas; 60 x 114 cm £46,637

Hawarden, Flintshire Record Office

·  Illuminated royal letters patent of Mary I, 9 May 1554 £3,037

Haworth, Brontë Parsonage Museum

·  Collection of papers of Francis Leyland, 1857-86 £2,250

·  Letter from Charlotte Brontë to W S Williams, 13 January 1848 £12,000

Hertford, Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies

·  The archive of the Delmé-Radcliffe family of Hitchin Priory, 1264-1944 £40,000

Huddersfield, Kirklees Library and Museum Service

·  Carl Plackman

Horizontal Man, 1990

Mixed media; 270 x 150 x 38 cm £5,000

Huntingdon, Cromwell Museum

·  Louis Hague

Cromwell at prayer before battle, 1869

Watercolour; 56 x 108 cm £390

Kendal, Lakeland Trust

·  H M Baillie Scott (designer)

Mould for a plasterwork ceiling at Blackwell, c.1898

Fruitwood; 58.4 x 62.2 cm £3,750

Leeds Museums and Galleries

·  Vivienne Westwood

Jacket, 1999

Printed silk £720

·  Rupert Spira

Open Bowl, 2007-8

Ceramic; h 13 cm £1,600

·  Garniture of 3 vases, c.1760

Derby porcelain; h 28.5 cm (1) and h 26 cm (2) £2,000

·  Peter Hide

Fastback, 1974

Steel; 46 x 101 x 62 cm £2,250

·  Isaac Witkin

Birth, 1962

Wood; 91 x 81 x 36 cm £5,000

·  Dolls’ house from Yorkshire, c.1750

186 x 136 x 59 cm £5,000

·  Martin Boyce

Phantom and Fall, 2008

Brass & plywood; 270 x 190 x 170 cm £4,000

·  William de Morgan (designer)

Charger painted by Halsey Ricardo, c.1885

Earthenware; 35.5 diameter £2,000

Leicester City Museum Service

·  Chila Kumari Burman

Fly Girl in Harlem 1996-2003, 2006

Inkjet print; 118.9 x 84.1 cm £250

Leicester, Record Office for Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland

·  Letter from George Stephenson 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 Barony 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 £487

·  I Harston

Portrait of Daniel Lambert, 1808

Oil on panel; 48 x 38 cm £875

Littlehampton Museum

·  Two Iron Age staters from Climping £600

·  Finger ring from Clapham, 15th century £300

Liverpool University, Victoria Gallery and Museum

·  Maurice Cockrill

Nocturne to the City, 1979

Oil on canvas; 202.5 x 304.5 cm £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, Geffrye Museum

·  Charles West Cope

The First Piano Lesson, c.1860

Oil on canvas; 34 x 34.5 cm £5,625

·  A Erwood

The First Place, c.1860

Oil on canvas; 31.5 x 27 cm £6,875

London, Jewish Museum

·  Daniel Lehrer

Lamp: 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 £6,500

·  12 coins from the Beulah Hill hoard, 1282-1369 £3,750

London, Royal College of Music Library

·  Samuel Wesley

Performance parts for Psalm 111, Confitbore tibi, Domine, 1826 £1,000

London, Royal College of Physicians Museum

·  Cornelius Johnson

Portrait of a physician, 1637

Oil on canvas; 145 x 120 cm £18,000

London, Royal Institute of British Architects’ Library

·  William Kent

Four designs for ceilings at 22 Arlington Street and 44 Berkeley Square,

London, 1743-8

Pen & ink; 25.8 x 39.5 cm £10,000

London, University College Art Collections

·  Edna Clarke Hall

Atalanta, 1899

Pen& ink; 29.5 x 39 cm £600

London, The Women’s Library

·  Hilda M Dallas

Poster advertising the journal Votes for Women, c.1914

Lithograph; 53 x 78 cm £1,750

Manchester City Galleries

·  Adolph Valette

Study of a cab at All Saints, Manchester, c.1910

Oil on board; 8.4 x 15.3 cm £6,900

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

·  Hiroyuki Shindo

Shindigo Space 07, 2006

Cotton & hemp installation; 340 x 120 cm (banners);

7 x 30 cm diameter (balls – range) £6,000

Middlesbrough Museums and Galleries

·  Edmund de Waal

Wunderkammer, 2007

342 porcelain vessels in a birch ply and steel container; 150 x 150 x 350 cm £20,000

·  Lucie Rie

Vase, c.1964

Stoneware; h 41.5 cm £7,000

Monmouth, Monmouthshire Museums Service

·  John Varley

Tintern Abbey, 1832

Watercolour; 30.5 x 55.8 cm £2,500

·  John Martin

View on the River Wye, Looking Towards Chepstow Castle, 1844

Watercolour; 29.5 x 71.5 cm £9,000

Newcastle, Tyne and Wear Museums Service

·  Caron Penney, Katherine Swailes and Jo Holland

Citrus Sinensis, 2007

Wool tapestry triptych; 50 x 50 cm (each panel) £2,500

·  Halima Cassell

Pyrogyro, 2007

Unglazed clay; 30 cm diameter £750

·  Kon Tors

Acetate recording, c.1962 £352

Newcastle, Tyne and 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 inscribed drinking glasses, c.1792-3

Green glass; gilt and enamel decoration; h 10 to 13.5cm (range) £2,500

·  Group of 3 stoneware pots:

Lucie Rie and Hans Coper

Bowl, c.1950s

15 x 30.5 cm

Bernard Leach

Tree of Life, c.1950s

18 x 14 cm

Shoji Hamada

Vase, c.1950s

23 x 15 cm £2,000

·  Olive Edis

Collection of prints, negatives and photographic equipment 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

·  Group of 7 lengths of Norwich worsteds, c.1730-90 £4,500

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

·  Susan Gunn

Ground Formations Study V, 2008

Encaustic, oils wax and gesso on canvas and board; 55.5 x 52 x 4 cm £775

Nottingham City Museums

·  Sam Taylor-Wood

Escape Artist (Multicoloured), 2008

Cibachrome print; 134.6 x 109.2 cm £10,000

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

·  Jug, c.1620-40

English delftware; h 28 cm £40,000

·  Tom Phillips

Archive of drawings, paintings, designs and collages, c.1957-2008 £6,000

Oxford, Bodleian Library

·  Collection of 132 letters from Samuel Palmer 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 and Museum

·  Bryan Pearce

Penzance Harbour, 1963

Oil on board; 52 x 154 cm £19,500

Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery

·  Ambrose Bowden Johns

Plymouth From Mutley, c.1825-50

Oil on canvas; 56.5 x 72.5 cm £734

·  Clarice Cliff

Sugar caster Pastel Autumn (Balloon Trees), c.1930

Earthenware; h 14 cm £360

·  Claude Buckle

Travel poster for Plymouth, 1938 £812

·  L A Wilcox

Travel poster for Devon, 1953 £375

·  Terence Cuneo

Travel poster for the Royal Albert Bridge, Saltash, 1959 £812

·  Harry Hudson

Travel poster for the French Line, Plymouth £937

Preston, Lancashire County Museum Service

·  Cabinet in 17th century Flemish style by Gillows of Lancaster, 1893

Oak, ebony and satinwood marquetry; 171 x 153 x 54.5 cm £3,250

Reading University Library

·  Archive of letters, manuscripts and books relating to Samuel Beckett,

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 and South Wiltshire Museum

·  Hoard of 5 coins and a ring from Brixton Deverill, 16th century £860

·  Hoard of Bronze Age axes from East Knoyle £300

Salisbury, John Creasey Museum