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Supporting museums Art we've helped buy Castle Coombe
Castle Coombe Castle Coombe

© The artist's estate/ Copyright holder not traced


Castle Coombe

Fayre

Art Funded
1955
Bequeathed by
Ernest Edward Cook through The Art Fund
Catalogued as by Fayre, 20th century.

Provenance

Part of the E E Cook collection, grandson of Thomas Cook of Thomas Cook Travel Agency. Died in 1955 and bequeathed the entire contents of his house at Bath to the National Art Collections Fund.

Watercolour

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Art we’ve helped buy at Royal Cornwall Museum

St Levan V Iron Age and Roman coin hoard
 Acquired 2019
The Market Square, Concarneau
 Acquired 2003
The Clay Pit
 Acquired 1995
Study for The Seine Boat
 Acquired 1996
Study for The Council
 Acquired 1996
St Michaels Mount
 Acquired 2007
St Just Tin Miners
 Acquired 1992
Silver saffron teapot
 Acquired 2000
Portrait of Sir Jonathan Trelawny by a follower of Marcus Gheeraerts
 Acquired 1997
Near Gulval, Cornwall
 Acquired 1946
Morning Fills the Bowl
 Acquired 1987
Lion Sejant spoon
 Acquired 1995
Harvesting
 Acquired 2006
Four paintings from the Holman Brothers Collection
 Acquired 2003
Collection of Martin Ware
 Acquired 1934
Collection of Colour Prints
 Acquired 1955
Castle Coombe
 Acquired 1955
A Gentleman and a Miner with a Specimen of Copper
 Acquired 1994

The Art Fund's Treasure Plus grant has allowed the museum to conserve a late Bronze Age metalworker’s hoard found in St Buryan parish and Roman coins from Luxulyan parish. Among the exhibits are a gold twisted torc, bronze axes and a bronze razor, Anglo-Scandinavian stirrup strap mounts and post-medieval silver gilt dress hooks.

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