Arts Council England / V&A Purchase Grant Fund Awards 2019/20 Aberystwyth University, School of Art Collections • Asraf Hanna Vessel, 2018 Ceramic; h 41.5 cm £1,000 Aldeburgh, Britten-Pears Library • Papers of Sir Lennox Berkley, plus material relating to the Berkeley family, 1858 to 2003 £25,000 Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire County Museum • Disc pendant from Bisham, early 7th century Gold; d 3.2 cm £750 Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery • John Akomfrah Handsworth Songs, 1986 Film £30,000 Bristol, Bristol's Museums, Galleries and Archives • Wael Shawky Al Araba Al Madfuna III, 2016 (second tranche) Video £1,220 Buckingham Old Gaol Museum • Half Angel of Richard III from Buckingham, 1483-85 Gold £12,000 Bury St Edmunds, St Edmundsbury Hertitage Service • Seal matrix from Mayland with Wissington, c.1300-50 Silver; h 3 cm £1,250 Cambridge, Pembroke College Library • Barrie Cooke archive of literary manuscripts and artwork, 1962-2009 £30,000 Chatham, Royal Engineers Museum • Collection and archive of Colonel Vassal Steer-Webster, relating to the design and construction of the Mulberry Harbours, 1914-1951 £9,150 Chelmsford, Essex Regiment Museum • Portrait of Lieutenant Colonel William Pearse, 1826-27 Oil on canvas; 89 x 101.5 cm £1,500 Chester, Cheshire Archives and Local Studies • Six maps relating to the area around Northwich, c.1760-1825 Vellum and paper; 40-70 x 30-47 cm £500 Cookham, Stanley Spencer Gallery • Sir Stanley Spencer Last updated 02/07/2020 Self-Portrait, 1959 red conté; 53.5 x 35.5 cm £30,000 Derby Museums and Art Gallery • Wall-mounted cased engine time clock by John Whitehurst FRS, c.1770 Oak; 150 x 50 x 30 cm £1,750 Doncaster Museum and Art Gallery • Finger ring from Tickhill, 15th century Gold £300 Dorchester, Dorset County Museum • Finger ring from Puddletown, Dorset, late 16th century Gold £600 • Finger ring from West Orchard, Dorset, 16th century Gold £250 • Bronze Age anvil from East Dorset Copper alloy; 10.5 x 9.5 x 2.2 cm £3,000 • Posy ring from Lillington, Dorset, c. 1650-1750 Gold £1,300 • Two coins of Coenwulf from Bere Regis, 796 - 821 Silver £1,300 • Viking ingot from Loders, Dorset Gold; 5.9 x 0.9 x 0.55 cm £400 • Five Iron Age staters from Tarrant Crawford Gold £2,000 • Syliva Townsend Warner A collection of 67 autograph and typed letters, 15 July 1931-20 December 1977 £2,900 Exeter, Royal Albert Memorial Museum • Peter Randall-Page Wing, 2009 Ceramic tile installation; 150 x 600 cm £14,500 • Susan Derges Eden 6, 2004 Ilfochrome photographic print; 101.5 x 183 cm £17,000 Halesworth and District Museum Hoard of 60 silver denarii from near Cookley, 153 B.C.- A.D. 60-1 £2,250 Leamington Spa Art Gallery and Museum • Colin Hitchmough Dictionary of Silences (Aurora Bognorealis), 2015 Oil on canvas; 200 x 300 cm £1,000 Leeds Museums and Galleries • Norman Dilworth Signs, 1990 Painted wood; 255 x 255 x 0.5 cm £4,000 Leeds University, Brotherton Library • Archive of Maurice de Sausmarez, c.1930-1969 £20,000 Leicester City Museum Service Last updated 02/07/2020 • Egyptian statue of Sutekhmose and Isinofret, c.1193-1185 BC Granite; h 58.4 cm £50,000 Llandrindod Wells, Powys Museum Servive • John Warwick Smith The Town of Rhayader on the River Wye, Radnorshire, 1787 Watercolour; 12.06 x 21.59 cm £1,000 London, Leighton House • Albert Moore A Vase of Dahlias, c.1880 oil on canvas; 25.1 x 16.5 cm £10,000 London, Royal Institute of British Architects Library • Cyril Farey Perspective drawing of Chesham House, 1923 Watercolour; 91 x 60 cm £2,500 Manchester, People's History Museum • Hand painted banner commemorating the passing of the Great Reform Act, 1832 oil on linen; 93 x 68 cm £952 Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art • Chila Kumari Singh Burman Two prints: Auto-Portrait, 1993-2017 Inkjet print on paper with mixed media embellishments; 106.7 x 84.4 cm Self-Portrait with Lipsticks, 2014 Chromogenic print on paper with mixed media embellishments; 43 x 33 cm £7,500 Newport, Isle of Wight Heritage Service • Medieval ring from Godshill Gold £2,250 Norwich, Norfolk Museums Service • Sword pommel from Wicklewood, late 8th century Silver gilt; l 4.6 cm £400 • Beatrice Gibson I Hope I'm Loud When I'm Dead, 2018 Film £11,000 Nottingham City Museums • Thomas Cooper Moore Nottingham Goose Fair, 1876 Oil on canvas; 51 x 61 cm £1,750 • Goshka Macuga, 2018 Make Tofu Not War, 2018 acrylic, cotton, lurex, wool; 293 x 447 cm £27,000 Nottingham, Museum of the Mercian Regiment • Medal group to Victor Robinson and associated documentation, 1914-1945 £5,500 • Indian General Service Medal to Corporal William Bees VC, 1897-1898 £2,125 Nottingham University Library Last updated 02/07/2020 • D H Lawrence Autograph manuscript of the essay Pictures on the Wall, 1929 £9,000 Oxford, Ashmolean Museum • Koloman Moser Young Woman, c.1896-1900 Pencil, watercolour and bodycolour; 33.5 x 21.5 cm £6,818 • One Hundred Views of New Tokyo (Shin Tokyo Hyakkei 新東京百景), 1929-32 Woodblock print; 26.8 x 20.5 cm £7,723 Oxford, Bodleian Library • al-Farabi Major Book on Music (Kitab al-Musiqi al-Kabir), 1902; annoted by Rauf Yekta Bey 27 x 20 x 2.5 cm £4,500 Plymouth, The Box: Plymouth Museums Galleries Archives • Robert Wallace Martin of Martin Brothers Pottery Sculpture of an anthropomorphic crab, 1880 Salt-glazed stoneware; 21 x 48.5 x 41.5 cm £20,000 Reading, Berkshire Record Office • Grant of the manor of Smewyns, White Waltham, Berkshire, to [Sir] John Norre[y]s of Ockwells manor, Bray, 1558 Ink on parchment, wax seal; 47.5 x 68.7 cm £2,100 Southampton Arts and Heritage • Alice Kettle Odyssey, 2003 Thread on canvas; 180 x 395 cm £12,500 Sudbury, Gainsborough's House • Joseph Mahoon Double manual harpsichord, 1738 Oak and walnut veneer case, ivory and ebony keys, brass strapwork hinges, stop knobs and lid hooks; 248 x 94 x 29.5 cm £10,000 Swindon Museum and Art Gallery • Ashraf Hanna Black Cut and Altered Vessels, 2019 Stoneware with dry black glaze; large h 38 cm, medium h 25 cm, small h 21 cm £1,896 Swindon, National Trust (for Sizergh Castle) • George Romney Portrait of Charles Strickland, 1760 Oil on canvas; 104.5 x 86.5 cm £25,000 Taunton, Somerset Archives and Local Studies Service • Collection of letters and papers of the Helyar family of Coker Court, Somerset, 1608-1797 3 folio volumes and 1 quatro volume £12,500 Wakefield Art Galleries and Museums • Silver shilling minted at Pontefract Castle during the siege of 1648-9 £3,225 Whitby, Captain Cook Memorial Museum • Mangianooa (Mangaia, Cook Islands) by William Ellis, 1779 Last updated 02/07/2020 watercolour; 14 x 37.5 cm £2,800 Worcester, Mercian Regiment Museum • Medal group to Captain A H Cooper, c.1942 £660 York Museums • Corpus Christi figurine from St Mary's Abbey, York, 13th century Gilt copper alloy, decorated with champlevé enamel and set with semi-precious stones; h 16 cm £4,000 TOTAL £459,619 Last updated 02/07/2020.