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Prudence Cuming Associates, Mathew Hollow, Felicity Ackroyd, Giacomo Algranti and Emma Broadbent
as well as to Renzo Parini and all at Fotomec and Tipostampa.

I have made a change, for this catalogue only, from our habitual font designed by Eric Gill. Instead I have
selected an earlier face. Georges Peignot designed the font called Nicolas Cochin based on copper engravings
of Nicolas Cochin (1715-1790) and Charles Malin cut the typeface in 1912 for the Paris foundry Deberny
& Peignot. This font is more ornate and a little closer to typefaces used in the eighteenth century and hence
a ppropriate for the Welbys.

I am dedicating this catalogue to the memory of Nicky Clarke who kept the wheels of this gallery turning for
over twenty-five years, tackling the ever more complex paperwork which she never ever threw away so that we
accumulated mountainous stacks of her copious annotations which served to guide us through the maze of
previous years’ accounts. Nicky lost her heroic and above all stoic long and very painful fight with cancer in the
autumn of 2012. I shall always bear a debt to Nicky and her and my friend, the late Emily Farrow, who was
my right hand for over eighteen years. Without the both of them I have long recognised that this gallery could
never have accomplished the exhibitions and catalogues which form part of its history.

PATRICK MATTHIESEN

1. The chessboard is ingenious. It takes the form of two leather volumes. The chessboard cover lifts so the pieces may be housed within.
The binding at the lower edge is continuous so that the volumes may be hinged together and placed in a bookshelf as a double volume.
It is something worthy of the gift department of Fortnum & Mason’s!

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