Purchase Grant Fund: Past grants S-Z

Saffron Walden Museum

2003-4
               Finger ring from Clavering, 13th century
               Silver gilt
               £300

Saffron Walden, Fry Art Gallery

2001-2
               Edward Bawden
               Three works:
               Ives Farm, Great Bardfield, 1956
               Linocut; 60.8 x 40.6 cms
               Autumn, 1950
               Linocut; 50 x 37.8 cms
               Christ Church, Greyfriars, London, 1948
               Pen & ink; 29.7 x 24.3 cms
               £925
               Edward Bawden
               Lindsell Church, 1963
               Linocut; 154 x 61.6 cms
               £375
2002-3
               Edward Bawden
               Kew Gardens poster designed for London Transport, 1936
               Lithograph; 101.6 x 63.5 cms
               £450
2003-4
               Eric Ravilious
               Submarine Dream, 1941
               Series of 10 lithographs; 28 x 31.8 cms (8) and 31.8 x 28 cms (2)
               £15,000
               Eric Ravilious
               Hull's Mill, c.1930
               Watercolour; 48.2 x 61 cms
               £15,000
   

Salisbury & South Wiltshire Museum

2002-3
               Roman coin hoard with 2 finger rings from Bowerchalke
               £3,000
               Figure of Mercury, Romano-British, 2nd-3rd century AD
               Copper alloy; h 7.8 cms
               £250
2003-4
               Roman coin hoard with gold ring from Bowerchalke (second tranche)
               £1,800
               William Callow
               Salisbury Cross, c.1874
               Oil on canvas; 35 x 25.2 cms
               £1,000
   

Shrewsbury, King's Shropshire Light Infantry Museum

2001-2
               Medal group to Private Healey, 1845-9
               £695
   

Shrewsbury, Shropshire County Record Office

2001-2
               John Rocque
               Group of 3 maps of Wroxeter, High Ercall & Hem, 1746-7
               Paper backed with linen; 55.9 x 152.4 cms to 320 x 243.8cms (range)
               £2,650
   

Southampton City Museums & Art Gallery

2002-3
               John Banting
               Time for Tea or Foliage Fantasy, c.1934
               Oil on canvas; 50.5 x 42 cms
               £3,500
               Steven Willats
               Variable Exercise No 7, 1963
               Pencil and gouache; 36.9 x 43.2 cms
               £1,000
2003-4
               Grace Pailthorpe
               March 7 1937- 4 (Sandbumptious), 1937
               Watercolour; 27 x 36 cms
               £1,100
               Ruben Mednikoff
               Untitled (Head), c.1936
               Pen; 25.5 x 32.5 cms
               £900
   

Southampton University Library

2001-2
               Collection of 127 letters from 1st Duke of Wellington to Sir John Malcolm,
               1801-16
               £8,741
   

Southend-on-Sea Museums Service

2003-4
                Alfred Herbert
               St Malo - The Road to Port Vincent, 1849
               Watercolour; 35.5 x 66.7 cms
               £1,600
   

St Albans Museum Service

2001-2
               Sir George Clausen
               Stone Pickers (Midday), 1882
               Watercolour; 37 x 24 cms
               £8,875
               Button from Wheathampstead, 1550-1640
               Silver gilt; 1.4 cms diameter
               £350
2003-4
               Contents of a pair of Roman cremation burials from Wheathampstead
               £12,500
   

Stevenage Museum

2002-3
               Anglo-Saxon hooked tag from Benington, 9th century
               Silver and niello; 2.1 x 1.6 cms
               £275
   

Stoke-on-Trent, Barlaston, The Wedgwood Museum

2001-2
               John Berry
               Collection of 18 depictions of the pottery making process, c.1965
               Watercolour and gouache on card; 25.4 x 20.3cms
               (each) £2,023
               Godden collection of 100 multi-coloured printed ceramics, c.1835-90
               Earthenware
               £16,784
               Coin hoard from Fauld, early 15th century
               £1,175
2003-4
                John Jackson
               Portrait of John Flaxman, early 19th century
               Oil on canvas; 76.5 x 63.7 cms
               £7,500
   

Stoke-on-Trent, The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery

2002-3
               Ottonian brooch fragment from Tutbury, early 11th century
               Gold set with enamels and glass; 0.3 x 0.6 cms
               £1,000
2003-4
               Two Roman Imperial coins from Shenstone
               £1,489
   

Sudbury, Gainsborough's House

2001-2
               Gainsborough Dupont
               Two works:
               Portrait of the Reverend Henry Bath-Dudley, 1780's
               Chalk; 30.8 x 38.1 cms
               Richard Earlom
               Proof of a print corrected by Gainsborough, 1781
               Mezzotint worked over with chalk; 36.1 x 28.1 cms
               £16,500
               John Downman
               Portrait of William Jackson, 1779
               Watercolour over pencil; 19.5 x 16 cms
               £4,500
               Thomas Gainsborough
               Portrait of Lambe Barry, c.1759
               Oil on canvas; 76.2 x 63.5 cms
               £20,000
               Thomas Gainsborough
               Study for an upland landscape with shepherd and sheep, c.1783
               Chalk; 26.1 x 36.3 cm
               £30,000
               Thomas Gainsborough
               A study for the portrait of Ann Ford, c.1760
               Chalk; 37.7 x 26.2 cms
               £9,000
2002-3
               Thomas Gainsborough
               Study for the painting The Cottage Door, c.1777-78
               Chalk on paper; 37.9 x 31.6cms
               £30,000
2003-4
               Hubert-François Gravelot
               Le Médecin Malgré Lui (The Mock Doctor), c.1742
               Oil on canvas; 27.2 x 36.2 cms
               £7,000
               Thomas Gainsborough
               Portrait of Anne Lynch, 1744
               Pencil; 12 x 9.5 cms
               £6,900
    

Sunderland Museum & Art Gallery

2002-3
               Commemorative mug, c.1793-96
               Sunderland creamware; 13.5 cms
               £1,100
               Commemorative mug, 1800-05
               Sunderland creamware; 9.7 cms
               £400
2003-4
               Commemorative bowl, c.1810
               Sunderland pearlware; h 18cms x diameter 41 cms
               £2,000
   

Swansea Museums Service

2001-2
               Roberto Sanesi (text) and Ceri Richards (illustrations)
               Journey Towards the North, 1971
               Volume of illustrated poetry
               £1,250
2003-4
               John Piper
               South Wales View (Swansea West), c.1970
               Gouache and watercolour; 39.4 x 57.8 cms
               £6,000
               Shani Rhys James
               Group of three works:
               Head I, 2002
               Head II, 2002
               Head III, 2002
               Oil on linen; 31 x 25 cms (each)
               £3,750
   

Swindon Museum & Art Gallery

2001-2
               Tony Bevan
               Head, 1999
               Acrylic and charcoal on canvas; 154 x 160 cms
               £10,200
               Desmond Morris
               Girl Selling Flowers, 1946
               Oil on board; 74 x 117 cms
               £1,000
               Roman coin hoard from Wanborough
               £2,000
2002-3
               John Piper
               Bolingbroke at Lydiard Tregoze, 1940
               Oil with pen & ink on canvas; 29 x 37 cms
               £6,000
               Timothy Hyman
               The Stripping of London, 1999-2002
               Oil on canvas; 112 x 198 cms
               £2,250
2003-4
               Blunsdon Ridge Hacksilber hoard, 4th century
               £6,250
    

Taunton, Somerset County Museum

2001-2
               Dress pin from East Lyng, 16th century
               £525
2002-3
               Roman coin hoard from West Bagborough, Somerset
               Silver
               £16,400
2003-4
               Penny of Edward the Confessor of the Frome Mint, Moneyer Brihtwine,
               1048-50
               £1,300
               Four spoons by Somerset makers, 17th century
               Silver; 16.8 to 19.3 cms (range)
               £5,265
   

Telford, Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust

2001-2
               Pedestal with four seasons design, c.1862
               Coalbrookdale terracotta; h 102 cms
               £3,750
2003-4
               Coalbrookdale Company
               Two Fern and Blackberry pattern garden chairs, 1860s
               Cast iron; 66 x 91 x 50 cms
               £250
   

Tenbury Wells, Tenbury and District Museum

2001-2
               Long case clock by Phillips of Tenbury, c.1745
               Oak
   

Torquay, Torre Abbey Historical House and Gallery

2002-3
               Thomas Mostyn
               The Glory of the Morning, c.1920's
               Oil on canvas; 120 x 182 cms
               £5,060
   

Trowbridge, Wiltshire & Swindon Record Office

2003-4
               Churchwarden's account book for the Parish of St Mary's, Market
               Lavington, 1660-1865
               £450
   

Truro, Royal Cornwall Museum

2001-2
               Leonard Fuller
               Lanham's picture framing workshop, St Ives, 1962
               Oil on canvas; 71.1 x 91.4 cms
               £451
               William Pennington Cocks
               Volume of political caricatures, 1860's
               Pen & ink; 37 x 25 cms
               £1,500
               Roman coin hoard from Ethy
               £2,000
2003-4
               The Holman Collection of portraits, paintings & related material, mid 19th
               to late 20th centuries
               £18,000
   

Wakefield Art Galleries and Museums

2002-3
               Norman Town
               Wakefield, 1950
               Watercolour and ink; 20.5 x 25 cms
               £600
   

Wakefield, West Yorkshire Archive Service

2001-2
               Suzanne North
               Beginnings I, 2000
               Delabole slate; 41.8 x 45.7 x 8 cms
               £750
2003-4
               Estate map of Toulson, 1761
               Parchment; 36 x 50.5 cms
               £260
   

Walsall Museum & Art Gallery

2003-4
               Jacob Epstein
               Calamus, 1902
               Pen & ink; 29 x 20 cms
               £2,600
   

Waltham Abbey, Epping Forest District Museum

2003-4
               Lucien Pissarro
               The Garden, Epping, 1893-4
               Oil on canvas; 28 x 38 cms
               £18,400
   

Warwick, Warwickshire Museum Service

2001-2
               Terminal from Bidford on Avon, 9th century
               Gold and niello; 1.5 cms length
               £2,500
               Disc from Hurley, 6-7th century
               Gold; 2 cms diameter
               £375
2003-4
               Iron age miniature shield from Alcester, Warwickshire
               Copper; l 7.8 cms x 3.6 cms
               £1,000
               Hoard of coins and ring fragments from South Warwickshire,
               14th - early 15th centuries
               £750
   

Watford Museum

2002-3
               John Wootton
               A View of Cassiobury Park, c.1748
               Oil on canvas; 71.1 x 127 cms
               £27,713
   

Wednesbury, Sandwell Museum Service

2002-3
               Pottery bottle vase, 1924
               Ruskin glazed earthenware; h 36cms
               £813
               Pottery chalice and cover, c,1920's
               Ruskin glazed earthenware; h 30.5 cms
               £850
   

Whitby, Captain Cook Memorial Museum

2001-2
               William Hodges
               A View of the Island of Madeira
               Oil on panel; 47 x 64 cms
               £40,000
   

Whitehaven, The Beacon

2001-2
               Mathias Read
               View of Parton, 1700-08
               Oil on board; 57.1 x 106.9 cms
               £3,000
   

Winchester, The Gurkha Museum

2003-4
               Burma Gallantry medal to Naik Bagbir Rana, 1943
               £2,242
   

Winchester, The Royal Green Jackets Museum

2001-2
               T Jones Barker
               Departure of the 11th Hussars for India, c.1866
               Oil on canvas; 69.5 x 107 cms
               £7,800
2003-4
               Indian Mutiny Medal to Colour Sergeant Waller, 1850s
               £2,500
   

Woking, Surrey History Centre

2001-2
               John Farley
               Map of the estate of Peter Cartwright, Walton-on-Thames, 1722
               Ink; 76 x 95 cms
               £1,147
   

Wolverhampton Art Gallery & Museums

2001-2
               Coin hoard from Wolverhampton, 1529-1642
               £425
               Group of 5 pieces of Bilston enamel, c.1765-1775 (5 grants)
               £7,308
2002-3
               John Kindness
               Four drawings from the series Monkey Town Besieged by Dogs, 1985
               Chalk on sandpaper; 62 x 62 cms
               £2,500
               Len Insull
               Tich Ventriloquist dummy, 1958
               Papier mache, wood and wire; h 76.2 cms
               £1,000
2003-4
               Conrad Atkinson
               Northern Ireland 1968-75, 1975
               Installation of photographs and cards
               £5,000
   

Worcester, The Elgar Birthplace Museum

2002-3
               Working score of Salut D'Amour by Sir Edward Elgar, c.1889
               £8,962
               Letter from Sir Edward Elgar to Alfred Littleton, 14 July 1909
               £250
2003-4
                Autograph manuscript of the Smoking Cantata by Sir Edward Elgar,
               10 July 1919
               £2,270
   

Worcester, Worcestershire County Record Office and Museum

2003-4
               Archive material and stage costumes relating to the music hall star,
               Vesta Tilley, 1890s-1920s
               £4,000
   

Workington, Allerdale Museum Service

2003-4
               W Mitchell
               Herring Fishing Boats Leaving Port Sunday Evening July 7 1889
               Oil on canvas; 51 x 76.5 cms
               £4,500
   

York, Borthwick Institute of Historical Research

2002-3
               The Yarburgh Archive, 12th-20th century
               £38,500
   

York Museums

2001-2
               Luis Paret Y Alcazar
               A 'Merienda' at a Country Inn, c.1772-3
               Oil on canvas; 44.8 x 55.3 cms
               £48,000
               Anglo-Saxon fitting from Sutton-on-the-Forest
               £12,000
               Late Bronze Age hoard of fragments from Ainderby Steeple
               £1,000
2002-3
               Dummy board, c.1760
               Oil on wood; 157.5 x 69.2 x 1.9 cms
               £3,680
               John Harper
               Album of topographical drawings, c.1840-42
               Pencil; 30.5 x 22.8 cms
               £1,645
               Thomas Samuel Haile
               African Musicians, 1939
               Oil on canvas; 56 x 76 cms
               £3,500
2003-4
               Gordon Baldwin
               Vessel for Dark Air, 2002
               Stoneware; 64 x 42 x 62 cms
               £2,000