Article: Museum accessions. (Weld Blundell Collection)

An extraordinary collection of 331 old master drawings, largely assembled in the eighteenth century by two local grandees, has been acquired by the National Museums and Galleries on Merseyside for the Walker Art Gallery, in Liverpool, England. Known as the Weld Blundell Collection, the drawings can be divided into two groups - those collected by Henry Blundell (1724-1810) and those acquired by his son Charles (d. 1837) at the sale of the collection of William Roscoe (1753-1831) in 1816. On Charles Blundell's death, the entire collection passed with his estate to the Weld family, relatives of his mother.

As a Roman Catholic, Henry Blundell was excluded by the penal ...

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