Mrs. Wakefield, by John Downman

An image of Mrs. Wakefield. Downman, John (British, 1750-1824). Black, red and white chalk with stump and watercolour, some lines incised with a stylus, on grey prepared paper, attached to mount sheet, height 223 mm, width 182 mm, 1778.

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Mrs. Wakefield. Downman, John (British, 1750-1824). Black, red and white chalk with stump and watercolour, some lines incised with a stylus, on grey prepared paper, attached to mount sheet, height 223 mm, width 182 mm, 1778.

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Accession Number: 1872
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/16.0
Focal length: 80
Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
Photographer name: Michael Jones
Image height: 1025 pixels
Image width: 769 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.0 (Windows)
Filesize: 560.96kB
Exposure time: 1/125
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 16/1

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