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Description: | Generous additions to the Fitzwilliam Museum collections include repeated gifts from Professor Emeritus Sir Ivor and Lady Honor Batchelor who gave more than 170 items for the Department of Applied Arts and for the Department of Paintings, Drawings and Prints.
Sir Ivor Batchelor held a continuing interest in art galleries and museums and was a keen and erudite visitor. The Batchelor donations to the Fitzwilliam include drawings by Sir Edwin Landseer (1802-1873), Ford Madox Brown (1821-1893), William Henry Hunt (1790-1864), Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827), and George Belcher (1875-1947) as well as a nineteenth-century glass vase painted in enamels, possibly Bohemian. | Subjects: | Fine arts Glass Drawings | Source: | Cornucopia - Discovering UK Collections | FAX: | 01223 332 923 | Telephone: | 01223 332 900 | Identifier: | oai:www.cornucopia.org.uk:8439 | Go to resource |
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