Butlin: Billy

Scope and Content

Includes:

-Billy Butlin's Pictures, written for The Sunday Times

-Billy Butlin, William Dyce and the Getty Museum, written for The Sunday Times

-Billy Butlin's Lucky Bid, written for Mercury

Also includes:

-Sewell's typed notes of a conversation with Beatrice Goodwin and Tricia West, dated 11 December 1982

-Sewell's typed notes titled The Butlin Pictures, dated 16 December 1982

-Sewell's typed notes titled Butlin Pictures, dated 17 December 1982

-first page of a letter to Ian Saunders, Butlins, dated 24 December 1982, outlining Sewell's findings when he inspected the pictures in the Butlin collection on 23 December 1982

-letter to Frank Giles, dated 29 January 1983, concerning payment for research undertaken by Sewell

-letter to the Editor, Newsnight, dated 8 May 1983, concerning a picture in the Butlin collection by the Victorian artist William Dyce (1806-1864)

-five annotated pages from an auction catalogue and details of the sale of pictures at Phillips' auction house in London on 10 May 1983. Four pictures from Butlin's collection, including 'The Lamentation of the Dead Christ' by William Dyce, were offered in the sale.

-research material

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