A valuable source for the study of 19th century silverware, being 300 pages of designs for objects such as broth basins, claret jugs, ice pails, muffin plates, sauce boats and tureens. The drawings are very detailed, and are accompanied by brief written descriptions and prices
Search FNL grants since 1931
Item date: late 19th century
Date acquired: 1999
Grant Value: 2,500
Item cost: 5,000
Institution: Victoria & Albert Museum
Town/City: London
Item date: 1866 - 76
Date acquired: 1999
Grant Value: 5,250
Item cost: 10,500
Institution: Victoria & Albert Museum
Town/City: London
Seven letters from Jeckyll to Green, which provide a fascinating insight both into the designers intentions and into his relationship with his client, as well as sketches of furniture and other details.
Item date: 1875 - 81
Date acquired: 1999
Grant Value: 4,750
Item cost: 9,500
Institution: Victoria & Albert Museum
Town/City: London
Book made up for Burges, elaborately bound in black morocco, gilt. In it he records all his commissions, giving details of date, work, contractor, cost and client. His two principal clients at this time were the Marquess of Bute and himself.
Item date: 1524
Date acquired: 1999
Grant Value: 5,000
Item cost: 20,000
Institution: Victoria & Albert Museum
Town/City: London
Letters patent, granting various properties in the parish of St Michael in Cornhill, London to Thomas Forster.
Item date: 1949
Date acquired: 1999
Grant Value: 4,000
Item cost: 14,000
Institution: Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art
Town/City: Edinburgh
Number 84 of the edition of 142 copies signed by Bellmer with 15 of his mounted and hand-coloured photographs, with 14 prose poems by Paul Eluard written in response to the photographs 1938-39. Illustrated at p.25 of AR
Item date: 20th century
Date acquired: 1999
Grant Value: 10,000
Item cost: 15,000
Institution: Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art
Town/City: Edinburgh
This archive minutely documents the research and other activities of the British Surrealist Group. Includes a significant body of correspondence with Sir Roland Penrose and the poet David Gascoyne who were the prime movers in bringing Surrealism to Britain
Item date: 1950 - 95
Date acquired: 1999
Grant Value: 10,000
Item cost: 20,000
Institution: National Library of Scotland
Town/City: Edinburgh
A rich literary archive with a full series of the poets work books from the 1950s to 1994, with articles, reviews, broadcasts and lectures and much correspondence, including letters from TS Eliot, Hugh MacDiarmid, Neil Gunn, Norman MacCaig, Sorley MacLean, Iain Crichton Smith and many other poets
Item date: 1842 - 1920
Date acquired: 1999
Grant Value: 5,000
Item cost: 105,000
Institution: National Library of Scotland
Town/City: Edinburgh
Kirk was Agent and Consul-General at Zanzibar and a major oponent of the Slave Trade.
Item date: 1745 - 46
Date acquired: 1999
Grant Value: 5,000
Item cost: 21,000
Institution: National Library of Scotland
Town/City: Edinburgh
Copes own assemblage of evidence to be used in his defence at the Board of Enquiry which met to investigate the disastrous engagement with the Jacobite army at Prestonpans, of which he had been the General Officer commanding.
Item date: 1708
Date acquired: 1999
Grant Value: 1,125
Item cost: 3,500
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
A very rare and early contribution to the subject of determining longitude, written by an Englishman resident in Hamburg, but printed, as far as it is known, only in this German translation, which is accompanied by an original English poem and a previously unrecorded world map.