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Curator's correspondence relating to items purchased by MCC



Reference
MCC/AAL/2/TEMP240
Date:
1937-07-22 - 1952-06-11
Level of description
file
Extent
1 folder
Part of
department correspondence and papers (MCC/AAL/2)
Scope and Content
Curator's correspondence (Diana Rait Kerr) relating to items purchased by MCC. The file includes correspondence by T H Carlton Levick and the MCC Secretary, Colonel Rowan Rait Kerr, who were responsible for the collection prior to the appointment of a curator. Items include a print of Richmond Green by Robert Sayer sold by the Parker Gallery, purchase of an oil painting depicting the Jubilee match between North and South to commemorate 50 years of MCC, purchase of a lithograph of Tonbridge from The Parker Gallery, purchase of Harry Furniss's cartoon of W G Grace, purchase of 8 Chevallier Tayler drawings, decision not to purchase a lithograph of the International Cricket Match at Kennington Oval, agreement to purchase a painting of A Cricket Match on Tunbridge Wells Common by William Fisher.
Associations
Diana Mary Rait Kerr
Thomas Henry Carlton Levick
Colonel Rowan Scrope Rait Kerr
Subject
acquisitions, rejected acquisitions
Institution name
Marylebone Cricket Club
Conditions governing access
Open
Language
English
Size
1 folder
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