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Dept of National Heritage

Answer

Mr. Faulds: To ask the Secretary of State for National Heritage if she will list the allocations made to public institutions in the United Kingdom during the half-year ended 31 December 1996 of individual works of art and museum objects pre-eminent for national, scientific, historic or artistic interest which have been accepted in satisfaction of inheritance tax, together with information, where applicable, as to conditions or wishes expressed by testators or executors in the matter of allocations; and if she will list the works of art and museum objects which are still awaiting allocation, with the respective dates of their acceptance, in satisfaction of inheritance tax. [20109] Mr. Sproat: The information which the hon. Member requests is as follows: _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Item(s) To whom allocated Conditions/ wishes expressed An archive of papers relating to Cheshire Council of the University of Manchester {1}-- (for retention at the John Rylands University Library) Ten acres of woodland at Tadworth, Surrey Surrey County Council {2}-- Eddison Theatre Collection Board of Trustees of the Victoria and {1}-- Albert Museum (for display at the Theatre Museum) Les Andelys (painting) by Maurice de Norfolk County Council (for display at the {3}-- Vlaminck Castle Museum, Norwich) Aboriginal Bark Paintings Board of Trustees of the British Museum {2}-- (for display at the Museum of Mankind) Two wings of a 13th-century ivory triptych Board of Trustees of the Victoria and {1}-- Albert Museum A collection of prints by Picasso, Dubuffet, The Council of the University of {2}-- Kokoschka and others Manchester (for display at the Whitworth Art Gallery) A collection of German stoneware Board of Trustees of the British Museum {2}-- and the Trustees of the National Museum of Wales A BoÏttger Teapot and BoÏttger tankard Chancellors, Masters and Scholars of the {2}-- University of Oxford (for display at the Ashmolean Museum) The Stoke Edith Hangings Board of Trustees of the Victoria and {4}Not known Albert Museum The Old Man and his Grandson (drawing) by Board of Trustees of the Victoria and {3}-- Arthur Rackham Albert Museum An archive of family papers Derbyshire County Council (for retention {1}-- at the Derbyshire Record Office) and Northamptonshire County Council (for retention at the Northamptonshire Record Office) Furniture and lamps by Giacometti Council of the University of East Anglia {1}-- (custodianship by the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich) St. Vincent's Rocks, Clifton by Thomas Council of the University of Manchester {1}-- Girtin and Protrait of Thomas Girtin by John for display at the Whitworth Art Gallery Opie (both paintings) Storith Heights (painting) by Thomas Girtin Chancellor, Master and Scholars of the {1}-- University of Cambridge for display at the Fitzwilliam Museum _________________________________________________________________________________________________. {1} Wish as to allocation. {2} Conditional offer. {3} Unconditional offer. {4} The Stoke Edith hangings were accepted in lieu of estate duty in 1961 and ownership passed to HM Government. Following their acceptance the hangings remained on loan for display at Montacute House (a National Trust property) until as mutually agreed between the Victoria and Albert museum and the National Trust, the hangings were moved to the V and A in parts (in 1980 and 1994). In 1996 the V and A asked the Secretary of State to arrange for ownership of the hangings to pass to them on a permanent basis and Lord Inglewood agreed, making a section 9 direction on 9 November 1996. _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Items awaiting allocation Date of acceptance Musical automation clock by Thomas Weekes 21 February 1995 Landscape with Lord Coventry on a Blue Roan Horse and Deer, Hounds 13 March 1997 and Attendants and Dead Stag (painting) by John Wootton _________________________________________________________________________________________________.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

20109; 292 c656-7W

Session

1996-97

Subjects

Artworks Inheritance tax Objects in lieu of tax