Aberystwythuniversity, School of Art Collections

GRANTS FOR 2008/09

AberystwythUniversity, 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, ShropshireCountyMuseum Service

• Hoard of 4 coins from Myddle, 1350-69£2,000

Aylesbury, BuckinghamshireCountyMuseum

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

(2 grants)

BarnardCastle, The BowesMuseum

• 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 BarnardCastle from the River, 1896

Oil on canvas; 50.8 x 61 cm£4,500

Bath, Bathand North East Somerset Heritage Services

• William Brooker

The Pink Chair, 1953

Oil on canvas; 46 x 61 cm£2,875

Bath & North East Somerset Record Office

• Archive of John Jefferys, Town Clerk of Bath, c.1760-1800£2,640

Bedford, CecilHigginsArtGallery

• William Burges

Panel designed for Castell Coch, c.1880

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

Birmingham City Museums & 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; 51 x 40 cm£3,000

Brighton, Sussex University Library

• Collection of Baldwinfamily papers concerning Rudyard Kipling and

his family, 1875-1945£16,750

Cambridge, FitzwilliamMuseum

• 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)£11,682

Cambridge, Scott Polar Research Institute

• Isak of Igdlorpait

Sketchbook illustrating life in Greenland

Ink & watercolour; 10.5 x 17 cm£8,250

Canterbury City Museums

• Reginald Bell

2 cartoons commisioned for CanterburyHospital 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 HolstBirthplaceMuseum

• Oliver Bernard

Set design for Holst’s The Perfect Fool, 5 May 1923

Gouache; 30 x 47 cm£750

Chester, CheshireChester Archives & Local Studies Service

• Collection of deeds relating to the Mascy family of Rixton & Glazebrook,

13th-17th century£2,500

Chester, GrosvenorMuseum

• Portrait of George Lloyd, Bishop of Chester, EnglishSchool, 1606

Oil on panel; 55.4 x 41.2 cm£3,500

ChichesterDistrictMuseum

• 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, StanleySpencerGallery

• 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£5,600

Exeter, RoyalAlbertMemorialMuseum

• Pompeo Batoni

Portrait of John Rolle Walter, c.1752-53

Oil on canvas; 101.7 x 76.7 cm£50,000

FalmouthArtGallery

• 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£46,637

Hawarden, Flintshire Record Office

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

Haworth, BrontëParsonageMuseum

• 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, 1264-1944£40,000

Huntingdon, CromwellMuseum

• Louis Hague

Cromwell at prayer before battle, 1869

Watercolour; 56 x 108 cm£390

LeedsMuseums 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 cm5,000

LeicesterCityMuseum Service

• Chila Kumari Burman

Fly Girl in Harlem 1996-2003, 2006

Inkjet print; 118.9 x 84.1 cm£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£487

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 CountyArchive Service

• Diary of Katherine Williams of Bryngwyn, 1870£310

London, CartoonMuseum

• 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£6,500

• 12 coins from the Beulah Hill Hoard, 1282-1369£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

ManchesterUniversity, John Rylands Library

• The Jamison family archive, 1830-1900£20,000

ManchesterUniversity, WhitworthArtGallery

• Lynn Hershmann Leeson

Roberta Breitmore, 1974-78

Mixed media£50,000

MiddlesbroughMuseums & 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£2,500

Newcastle, Tyne & 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 & 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)£2,500

• 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

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, AshmoleanMuseum

• Length of chintzfrom 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

PenzanceHarbour, 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

ReadingUniversity Library

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

c.20th century£40,000

Retford, BassetlawMuseum

• Anglo-Saxon brooch from Rampton

Copper alloy, gilt and silvered; l 15.5 cm £2,100

Richmond, RichmondshireMuseum

• Seal matrix from Brompton on Swale, 14th century£1,850

Salisbury & SouthWiltshireMuseum

• 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£1.300

Scunthorpe, NorthLincolnshireMuseum

• Coin hoard from Bigby, c.1204-1210£275

Southampton City Museums & Art Gallery

• Philip Allen

Shallow Level Sequence, Version II,2004

Oil on board; 152 x 122 cm£2,800

• Eva Rothschild

Blackout, 2007

Becchwood & perspex; 107 x 48 x 48 cm£6,500

• Nigel Cooke

Painters Lunch, 2008

Oil on canvas; 60.2 x 80 cm£13,500

• George Shaw

Almost Lost (I), 2007

Charcoal; 136 x 167 cm£3,000

SwanseaMuseum Service

• Laura Ford

Beast sculpture, 2005

Steel, plaster and mixed media; 126 x 68 x 64 cm£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 ForestDistrictMuseum

• Jacob Epstein

Glade in Epping Forest, c.1945

Watetcolour and gouache; 43.5 x 58.5 cm£2,375

Whitby, CaptainCookMemorialMuseum

• William Hodges

MataviBay, 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 RoyalHussarsMuseum

• 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

WolverhamptonArtGallery 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