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Art we’ve helped buy at Bristol Museum & Art Gallery

End of Empire
 Acquired
Dudu Parktown
 Acquired 2018
An Octagonal Brislington Delftware Plate
 Acquired 2016
On the River Lyn, Devon
 Acquired
Woman and Child
 Acquired 1950
Villager & Hard Hit & Charcoal drawing of draperies
 Acquired 1949
Valley of Misolo
 Acquired 1939
Un Dejeuner de Chasse
 Acquired 1955
Two Collections of Watercolours and Drawings
 Acquired 1937
Twenty six drawings attributed to J B Pyne
 Acquired 1947
Tulips
 Acquired 1945
Translated Vase no 8
 Acquired 2013
Tomorrow everything will be alright
 Acquired 2011
Three pieces of glass
 Acquired 1977
Three pieces of church plate
 Acquired 1994
There Is No Border Here
 Acquired 2012
The Young Trio
 Acquired 1987
The Withypoll Altarpiece - central panel
 Acquired 1937
The Winter's Tale & Henry VII theatrical designs
 Acquired 1932
The Unwed Mother
 Acquired 1963
The Music Party
 Acquired 1955
The Mouth of the Avon, near Bristol, seen from the Cliffs below Clifton
 Acquired 2013
The Market Place
 Acquired 1930
The George Warre Collection
 Acquired 1938
The Death of Chatterton (after Henry Singleton)
 Acquired 1939
The Burrows Abbey Collection of Chinese Glass
 Acquired 1950
The Bristol Bowl
 Acquired 1934
Sunset at Sea after a Storm
 Acquired 1983
Stoneware dish
 Acquired 1993
St Anthony's Chapel
 Acquired 1936
Snow Scene
 Acquired 1945
Small female torso
 Acquired 1959
Sketch of Portsmouth
 Acquired 1950
Shan Pipe Band Learns the Star-Spangled Banner
 Acquired 2012
Scene in a Park
 Acquired 1950
Ruins of Yale Court, Glos
 Acquired 1950
River Scene with Figures
 Acquired 1955
Ritual vessel & cover
 Acquired 1970
Rama and Sita in the Forest & A Lady and her Attendants on a Terrace & Dipak Raga
 Acquired 2005
Portrait of Lady Caroline Lamb (1785-1828)
 Acquired 1950
Portrait of JM Grafton-Dare, 1786
 Acquired 1955
Portrait of Edward Bird RA
 Acquired 2002
Portrait of Charles I when Duke of York
 Acquired 1974
Porcelain pen box
 Acquired 1996
Porcelain dish
 Acquired 1993
Poppy Garden II
 Acquired 2010
Pinara: Rock Tombs in Lycia
 Acquired 1936
Photographs from the series 'Sleepers'
 Acquired 2009
Pen Pole Point, near Bristol
 Acquired 1933
Pastoral
 Acquired 2001
Parc à Famars
 Acquired 1939
Pair of Chinoiserie armchairs
 Acquired 1989
Original design for the ceiling of Bristol council chambers
 Acquired 2004
Noah's Ark
 Acquired 1992
New York City Apartment/Bristol
 Acquired 2014
Misericord
 Acquired 2007
Ming bowl
 Acquired 1989
Lydda Airport
 Acquired 2014
Loch Leven and the Paps of Glencoe
 Acquired 1939
Landscape - Aix-en-Provence
 Acquired 2001
Landscape
 Acquired 1949
L'Eternité
 Acquired 1952
Interior; Lady on Sofa with Dog
 Acquired 1961
Incident in a Landscape
 Acquired 1992
In Seville
 Acquired 1939
In Our Times
 Acquired 2012
Imari plate & Textile
 Acquired 1947
House on the Moor
 Acquired 1939
Holiday for Tomorrow
 Acquired 2011
Henry I silver penny
 Acquired 1977
Head of a Woman in Red Turban By Lamplight
 Acquired 1962
Gold paper fan & Landscape scroll
 Acquired 1965
Glassware
 Acquired 1978
Glass vase with lily design
 Acquired 2006
Girls in Car 1-4
 Acquired 2012
Fountainebleue en Foret
 Acquired 1989
Forms in Succession
 Acquired 2013
Flight into Egypt
 Acquired 1959
Five pieces of Bristol Porcelain
 Acquired 1957
Figure of Kuan Yin
 Acquired 1975
Figure of Guan Yin
 Acquired 1995
Enamelled plate
 Acquired 1916
Embroidered sleeve bands
 Acquired 2009
Eel Bucks at Goring
 Acquired 1938
Dressing for the Masquerade
 Acquired 1953
De Grote Boodschap
 Acquired 2012
Dancer
 Acquired 2001
Collection of works
 Acquired 2003
Collection of Furniture, Carpets and Tapestry
 Acquired 1955
Collection of drawings
 Acquired 1947
Collection of drawings
 Acquired 1976
Collection of 164 drinking glasses
 Acquired 1984
Cliffs and Beach Scene
 Acquired 1950
Christ Supported by Angels
 Acquired 1968
Chinese robes
 Acquired 1933
Chinese export punch bowl
 Acquired 1999
Chinese dish
 Acquired 1995
Chinese bronzes & ceramics & Thai and Vietnamese objects
 Acquired 1968
Bristol from the South
 Acquired 1944
Brazilian Bank
 Acquired 2013
Bracciano
 Acquired 1939
Boats on a Beach
 Acquired 1950
Blowing Glass
 Acquired 1994
Birthplace of Sir Thomas Lawrence, Bristol
 Acquired 1939
Anne Leyborne Leyborne & William Leyborne Leyborne
 Acquired 1956
All are the Colours of my Heart II
 Acquired 2011
Agriculture
 Acquired 1950
A View of La Marina, near Vietri
 Acquired 1955
A Ton of Tea
 Acquired 2011
A Standing Cavalier
 Acquired 1972
A Season Outside
 Acquired 2011
A River in Spate
 Acquired 1955
A Hilly Landscape with Herdsmen and Cattle
 Acquired 1955
A Group of Itinerant Musicians with Two Women in an Apartment
 Acquired 1955
A Ferry Boat crossing the River
 Acquired 1955
A collection of paintings, rugs, ceramics and decorative items
 Acquired 1948
A Capriccio of Roman Architecture
 Acquired 1954
3 Drawings
 Acquired 2001
11 contemporary ceramics and glass from 'Ahead of the Curve' exhibition
 Acquired 2016
1) Untitled Sugar Cane Series No. 16; 2) Sugar Cane Series No. 8
 Acquired 2012
1) Twenty-Eight Nights and a Poem; 2) Studio Scheherazade
 Acquired 2012
1) Standing figure with camouflage pantaloons; 2) This Leprous Brightness, nine parts
 Acquired 2011
1) Peripheral; 2) Peripheral Stories and Peripheral Landscapes 1-5
 Acquired 2009
1) Part I_Chapter_1 Section 139: The Atlas Group; 2) Civilizationally, we do not dig holes to bury ourselves, Arc de Triomphe; 3) We decided to let them say 'We are convinced' twice'; 4) Sweet Talk, The Hilwe Commission
 Acquired 2010
1) Manual Grid; 2) Instruction Manual; 3) Double Head Index
 Acquired 2011
1) Encapsulated Confrontation; 2) The Last Post
 Acquired 2011

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