The Roman lead pig or ingot AN almost 2,000 year old Roman lead ingot will take pride of place in Craven Museum following the successful fundraising of just under £23,000. Also known as a ‘pig’, the ingot, which dates from AD 81, is one of a pair found by Sir Thomas Ingilby in around 1731 at Hayshaw Moor, near Pateley Bridge. It is about 23 inches long, and four inches wide, and weighs 154Ibs, or 11 stones. It has been kept at Ripley Castle until now, while its companion has been in the British Museum since 1772. Danielle Daglan, Craven District Council’s cultural services manager, said it had great significance to the area and would be a ‘fantastic addition’ to the museum s collection.
The sketchbook that has been obtained for Ipswich Museums with work by John Constable.
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Ipswich Museums have taken ownership of four early John Constable sketches after they went up for sale at Sothebys.
They were acquired for the Ipswich collection through funding from the Friends of the Ipswich Museums, Arts Council England/V&A Purchase Grant Fund, Art Fund and Ipswich Council’s Felix Cobbold Bequest.
One of the sketches from John Constable s book.
- Credit: Ipswich Council
They include a landscape painted when Constable was aged just 17 and is among his very earliest surviving works.
The sketchbook that has been obtained for Ipswich Museums with work by John Constable.
- Credit: Ipswich Council
Ipswich Museums have taken ownership of four early John Constable sketches after they went up for sale at Sothebys.
They were acquired for the Ipswich collection through funding from the Friends of the Ipswich Museums, Arts Council England/V&A Purchase Grant Fund, Art Fund and Ipswich Council’s Felix Cobbold Bequest.
One of the sketches from John Constable s book.
- Credit: Ipswich Council
They include a landscape painted when Constable was aged just 17 and is among his very earliest surviving works.
AN iconic purple suit worn by Peter Kay for the ‘Amarillo’ Comic Relief single has been snapped up by a seaside entertainment museum. Curators at the new Showtown musem in Blackpool have acquired the flamboyant suit, which the Bolton funnyman wore while filming the famous video to the Tony Christie hit, using an Arts Council grant. In the wake of the single’s phenomenal success, with the track remaining at number one for seven weeks, Peter sold off the two-piece in 2005 to raise funds for Bolton Hospice. And since then garment has remained in private hands, before being placed up for sale earlier this year.