ACE/V&A Purchase Grant Fund Awards 2013/14

Aberystwyth University, School of Art Collections • Sung Jae Choi Plate, 2013 Ceramic; 38 cm diameter £425 • Virginia Scotchie Group of three pieces: Top Hat , 2013 Stoneware; 24 x 15 x 10 cm Double Bubble, 2013 Stoneware; h 28 cm Crown , 2013 Stoneware; 29 x 15 cm £425 • Stephen Dixon 4 plates from the Adelaide series, 2008 Ceramic; 30 x 30 cm (each) £450

Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire County Museum • Medieval finger ring from Wing inscribed nul si ben Gold; 2.4 x 1.6 cm £500 • Romano-British statuette of a lion from Saunderton Bronze; 4.7 x 3.7 x 1.5 cm £300 • Anglo-Saxon brooch from Great Horwood Silver; 5 cm diameter £2,500

Barnard Castle, The Bowes Museum • Chinese casket with European mounts from Lowther Castle, c.1730 Porcelain and ormolu; 24 x 37.5 x 23.5 cm £30,000

Bath and North East Somerset Heritage Service • Kenneth Armitage Group Figure Studies , 1949 Ink; 38.1 x 45.7 cm £3,225 • Roman coin hoard from Beau Street, Bath £20,000

Last updated 10/04/2014 Bath, Holburne Museum • John Lacon of Bath Self portrait miniature, 1755 Watercolour on ivory, 6.8 x 10.2 cm £4,250 • Karen Wallis Drawing the Holburne Museum Development , April 2008-November 2011 Six sketchbooks; 20 x 20 cm (each) £2,500

Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery • Joseph Wright of Derby Portrait of Erasmus Darwin, c.1770 Oil on canvas; 75 x 62 cm £30,000

Bishop’s Stortford Museum • Medieval seal matrix from Thorley Silver and jasper; 2.3 x 1.9 cm £1,500

Bristol, Bristol's Museums, Galleries and Archives • Account book of a voyage of the Jason with later household accounts of the Becher family, 1743-1746 and 1790-1818 £4,340 • Do Ho Suh NYC Apt Corridor/ist Floor + Ground Floor/Staircase – Bristol , 2013 Polyester and stainless steel; 500 x 500 x 500 cm £20,000

Buxton Museum and Art Gallery • William Day Thor’s House Cavern , 1789 Watercolour; 49 x 34.5 cm £3,000

Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum • Stanley Spencer Group of five works: John Donne Arriving in Heaven , 1911 Oil on canvas; 37 x 40.5 cm Scrubbing Cloths , 1919 Oil over pencil on paper, laid on hardboard; 18 x 23 cm Making a Red Cross , 1919 Oil over pencil on paper, laid on hardboard; 18 x 23 cm Making Columns for the Tower of Babel , 1933

Last updated 10/04/2014 Oil on canvas; 54 x 49 cm Builders of the Tower of Babel , 1933 Graphite, wash and oils on paper; 31.5 x 60 cm £30,000 • Katsukawa Shun'ei Scene from a Kabuki play , triptych, c.1795 Woodblock print; 14.9 x 32.7 cm (each sheet) £3,750

Cambridge, Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology • Collection of 92 works on paper by Rorke's Drift artists, 1962-1982 £21,758

Cambridge, Scott Polar Research Institute • Robert Falcon Scott Collection of 113 photographic negatives taken during the British Antarctic Expedition, 1911 Glass plate and celluloid £30,000

Cheltenham Art Gallery and Museum Service • Felicity Aylieff Jar, 2012 Porcelain; h 45 cm £1,650

Chipping Campden, Court Barn Museum • C R Ashbee (designer) Pendant made by Guild of Handicraft, c.1899 Enamel on gold with pearl, garnets and amethysts; 11 x 5 cm £6,400

Coventry, The Herbert • Goncarlo Mabunda War throne, 2012 Metal and recycled weapons; 89 x 107 x 55 cm £4,062

Derby Museums and Art Gallery • Roman coin hoard from the Amber Valley £1,625

Devizes, Wiltshire Museum • Civil War coin hoard from Stanton St Quintin £300 • Finger ring from Malmesbury, 15th century Gold £800

Last updated 10/04/2014 Doncaster Museum and Art Gallery • H Lancaster Portrait of James William ‘Iron’ Hague, c.1909 £1,250 • Pendant cross from Stainforth, 8th-10th century Silver; l 4.93 cm £450

Durham County Record Office • Collection of documents and diaries relating to Lieutenant General Horatio Harbord Morant, 1852-74 £1,493

Eastbourne, The Towner • Uriel Orlow The Short and the Long of it , 2010-12 Mixed media installation £12,500

Ely Museum • Late Bronze Age penannular bracelet from Fordham Gold; l 16.4 cm £10,000

Ely, The Stained Glass Museum • Geoffrey Clarke Group of four stained glass panels: Saint Anthony , 1949 53 x 220 cm Priest , 1949 56 x 36 cm Saint Sebastian , 1949 40.5 x 24.5 x 7.2 cm Fragment , c.1956-59 91.4 x 73 x 15.2 cm £7,500

Epworth Old Rectory • Bust of Alexander Kilham, c.1897 Stoneware; h 22 cm £465

Exeter, Royal Albert Memorial Museum • Spoon made for Sir John Gilbert by John Edes of Exeter, c.1580-90 Silver; l 18 cm £11,000 • Sir Joshua Reynolds (studio)

Last updated 10/04/2014 Portrait of Francis Hayman, c.1756 Oil on canvas; 50 x 41 cm £9,128

Exeter University Library • Malcolm Elwin Archive, c.1930-2007 £7,410

Falmouth Art Gallery • Cedric Morris Landscape, Cornwall (Quarry) , 1923 Oil on canvas; 61 x 45.7 cm £5,500

Farnham, Crafts Study Centre • Bernard Leach Albarello, 1912 Earthenware; h 20.7 cm £6,250 • Bernard Leach In a Tokyo Park , 1918 Etching; 36.5 x 21.5 cm £1,000

Gloucester, Soldiers of Gloucestershire Museum • Military general service medal to Sergeant Richard Smyth, 61st Regiment of Foot, 1847 £1,209

Grasmere, Wordsworth Museum • Collection of archival material relating to Thomas Bewick, 1776-1890 £8,000

Halifax, Duke of Wellington’s Regiment Museum • Portrait miniature of Major William Dansey, 33 rd Regiment of Foot, 1781 Oil on canvas; 38.1 x 30.4 cm £2,000

Haworth, Brontë Parsonage Museum • Charlotte Brontë L'Amour Filial , essay, 5 August 1842 £20,000 • Charlotte Bronte Portrait of Mrs Hudson, 1839 Watercolour; 6.8 x 5.5 cm £9,750

Henley, River and Rowing Museum

Last updated 10/04/2014 • Frederick Waters Watts Ferries at Henley on Thames , 1830-40 Oil on canvas; 61 x 91.5 cm £5,000

Hever Castle, Kent & Sharpshooters Yeomanry Museum • Portrait miniature of an officer of the Kent Yeomanry, c.1810 Watercolour; 19 x 16 cm £450

Hull City Museums and Art Gallery • John Ward Ward’s British Navy , c.1843 Portfolio of 10 lithographs; 40 x 30 cm £2,000

Ipswich Museums and Art Gallery • Items from the Rendlesham hoard, 4th-7th centuries Gold, silver and copper alloy £10,000

Kendal, Lakeland Arts Trust • Hughie O'Donoghue A Moment's Liberty , 2012 Oil on canvas; 125 x 158 cm £8,000

Leeds Museums and Galleries • John Hyatt Art Wars: Division and Design , 1982 Emulsion paint primed canvas with acrylic, oil, and household paints; 274 x 122 cm £3,000 • Beadwork mirror, c.1662 Wood case; glass beads, satin, linen; 90 x 80 cm £10,000

Lewes, East Sussex Record Office • Articles of apprenticeship of Herbert Joseph Cribb to Eric Gill and three autograph letters from Eric Gill to Cribb's father, 1906-1908 £900

Lewes, Sussex Archaeological Society Museums • Middle Bronze Age hoard from near Lewes £7,750

Lincoln, Tennyson Research Centre • Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Last updated 10/04/2014 Page proofs for the poem To The Queen with revisions by Tennyson, 1872 £5,400 • Charles Tennyson Turner Autograph manuscript of Verses on a picture of a female head , c.1832 £371

Llandrindod Wells, Powys County Archives • Deed concerning land in Radnorshire, 1318 £600

Llandrindod Wells, Powys Museum Service • Roman coin hoard from Montgomery £9,000

London, Ben Uri Gallery • Josef Herman Refugees , c.1940-42 Gouache; 47 x 39.5 cm £2,450

London, Cartoon Museum • Willie Rushton Britain's NEW Satirical Paper Private Eye wants volunteers to help , September-October 1961 Ink, watercolour and collage; 45.5 x 35 cm £800

London, Charles Dickens Museum • Daniel Maclise Portrait of Charles Dickens’s children, 1841 Pencil; 38.1 cm diameter £12,000

London, Geffrye Museum • Firegrate, c.1690-1700 Steel and wrought iron; 59 x 88.2 x 34 cm £3,500 • Sir Thomas Curtis Set of six plates, c.1550 Pewter; 21.5 cm diameter (each) £12,337

London, Guildhall Art Gallery • Mark Titchner Plenty and Progress , 2012 Stainless steel, acrylic paint and lacquer; 125 x 125 x 17 cm £9,500

London, Leighton House

Last updated 10/04/2014 • Andrea Meldolla (Il Schiavone) Nymphs in a Landscape , c.1540-50 Oil on panel; 23 x 112 cm £15,000

London, Museum of London • Christiane Baumgartner Medway , 2013 Suite of nine photogravures; 50 x 62 cm (each sheet) £1,300

London, Royal Institution of Great Britain • Michael Faraday Collection of correspondence, 1827-64 £5,000

Maidstone Museums & Art Gallery • Bronze Age hoard from Broughton Malherbe £1,600

Manchester City Galleries • Yasuko Sakurai Orb , 2013 Porcelain; 37.5 x 40.5 x 40.5 cm £2,925

Manchester University, Whitworth Art Gallery • Georges Adéagbo Le devenir de l'etre humain, parlant du destin de l'etre humain, et faisant voir le destin de l'etre humain. Le roi d'Angleterre et the reine d'Angleterre , 2000 and 2012 Mixed media installation; 800 x 905 x 250 cm £8,557 • Nikhil Chopra Coal on Cotton , 2013 Mixed media installation; 550 x 1600 x 11500 cm £8,000

Middlesbrough, mima • Angela Ferreira Stone Free , 2012 Head Gear teak sculpture; 500 x 150 cm Series of 5 pencil drawings; 100 x 70 cm (each) Research Composite 8 ; 6 pencil drawings and photocopies; 59.5 x 114.5 cm £10,833

Monmouth, Monmouthshire Museums Service

Last updated 10/04/2014 • Francis Towne West Front of Tintern Abbey , 1777 Watercolour; 29.2 x 36.8 cm £4,312 • John Ward Tintern Wire Mills , c. 1838 Oil on panel (study); 14 x 21 cm £3,500

NewcastleNewcastle----UnderUnderUnder----LymeLyme Borough Museum • Portrait of John Fenton, c.1715 Oil on canvas; 76 x 63 cm £700

Newport (Isle of Wight), Carisbroke Castle Museum • Thomas Walmsley Collection of 11 topographical views, c.1802-03 Aquatint; 52 x 68.5 cm £2,900

Norwich, Norfolk Museums Service • Hawking vervel inscribed to Henry, Prince of Wales from Cley-next-the Sea, 1610-12 Silver; 1.5 cm diameter £2,400 • Two Anglo-Saxon bracteates from Binham Gold; 4.4 and 5 cm £3,000 • Joseph Stannard Off Corton , c.1829 Oil on panel; 76.5 x 102 cm £25,000

Nottingham City Museums • Cyril Farey Two works: Design for the reception hall of the Exchange Buildings, Nottingham for Thomas Howitt architects, 1924 Watercolour; 51 x 74 cm Design for the New Exchange Scheme for Thomas Howitt, architects,1924 Watercolour; 71 x 102 cm £4,875 (two grants) Nottingham University Library • D H Lawrence Autograph manuscript of the poem Hibiscus and Salvia Flowers , 1921 £2,362

Last updated 10/04/2014 Oldham, Gallery Oldham • Hans Coper Pot with sgraffito design, c.1953 Stoneware; h 22 cm £3,547

Oxford, Ashmolean Museum • Stevens-Cox collection of Ilchester mint coins, 11-13th centuries £15,000

Oxford, Bodleian Library • Gerard Manley Hopkins Autograph manuscript of the poem Binsey Poplars , 13 March 1879 £20,000

Plymouth City Museums and Art Gallery • Two medieval quarter nobles from Slapton Gold £275

Poole Museum Service • Bernard Finegan Gribble Poole Quay on a busy day with boats and figures , c.1935 Oil on panel; 61 x 81 cm £2,750

Preston, Lancashire Museum Service • Hoard of Viking artefacts from Silverdale Silver £18,000

Reading, Berkshire Record Office • Collection of papers of the Spencer family of Cookham, c.1909-62 £1,666

Rochdale Arts and Heritage Service • Halima Cassell Wu-Li , 2012 Porcelain and stoneware; 30 cm diameter £1,800

Saffron Walden, Fry Art Gallery • Eric Ravilious Two workbooks, c. 1916-1939 Paper; 30 x 10 cm (each) £20,000

Saffron Walden Museum

Last updated 10/04/2014 • Anglo-Saxon finger ring from North-West Essex Gold; l 2.6 cm £20,000

Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum • The Rex Whistler archive, c. 1915-44 £20,000

Selborne, Gilbert White’s House and the Oates Museum • Loud hailer and clock from The Saunterer , Captain Oates’s yacht, 1900-1910 £500

Shrewsbury, Shropshire Archives • Collection of Sandford family papers, 1604-1777 £1,575

Shrewsbury, Shropshire Museum Service • Civil War coin hoard from Bitterley £4,000

Southampton Arts and Heritage • Clare Woods Funnelled Hole , 2011 Oil on aluminium; 100 x 150 cm £2,500 • Alice Channer Dilate , 2010 Cigarette ash, pencil and gouache; 35.5 x 26.2 cm (2 parts) £1,500 • Tim Head Horizontal Lines 2 , 2009 Permanent marker; 100 x 140 cm £1,500 • Matt Calderwood Lightbulb (Screw) , 2006 Video £1,500

St Agnes Museum • Edward Opie Portrait of Joanna Opie, 1831 Oil on canvas; 43 x 33.6 cm £1,500

Stoke-on-Trent, The Potteries Museum • Group of 34 pieces from the Godden collection of British porcelain and pottery, c.1750 -1850 £5,170

Swindon, National Trust

Last updated 10/04/2014 • Philip Webb Group of four designs for the tapestry The Forest by Morris & Company, c.1886 (for Wightwick Manor) Watercolour; 66 x 49 cm to 89 x 58 cm (range) £20,000 (two grants) • George Hindmarsh Twelve plates from a set by George Hindmarsh engraved with the arms of Robert and Sarah Child from Osterley Park, 1740 Silver; 24.2 cm diameter (each) £10,000

Taunton, Museum of Somerset • Penny of King Edgar by Aelfsige, 973-975 £4,250

Truro, Royal Cornwall Museum • Roman coin hoard from Luxulyan £300

Twickenham, Strawberry Hill House • Charles Jervas Portrait of King William III as Prince of Orange, c.1723-39 from the collection of Horace Walpole oil on canvas; 45.7 x 38.1 cm £7,500

Waltham Abbey, Epping Forest District Museum • Tailor's ring from Chigwell, 17th century Silver; h 1.4 cm £200

Warwick, Royal Regiment of Fusiliers Museum (Royal Warwickshire) • Medal group to Major M E Fisher, 1939-55 £2,868

Warwick, Warwickshire Museum Service • Addenda to the Bedworth coin hoard of three Iron Age coins £950

Winchester Museums • Hoard of six Iron Age coins from Upham £1,100

Witney, Oxfordshire County Museum Service • Anglo-Saxon sword mount from Stanton St John Silver with gilding and neillo; 1.4 x 1.4 x 0.7 cm £300

Last updated 10/04/2014 Wrexham County Borough Museum • Finger ring from Erbistock, 16th-17th century Gold; 1.5 cm diameter £550

York Museums • Iron Age torc from Towton Gold; 8.4 x 7.3 cm £7,000

York, Regimental Museum of the Royal Dragoon Guards • Sword owned by Lieutenant General Robert Echlin, Inniskilling Dragoons, 1708-09 Steel £7,500

TOTAL £749,288

Last updated 10/04/2014