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Study of a portly man, seated in profile to left, by Burne-Jones

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An image of Album of 80 drawings. Study of a portly man, seated in profile to left. Burne-Jones, Edward (British, 1833-1898). Graphite on blue paper (back of an envelope), height 91 mm, width 118 mm. The album was bound in full white pigskin over oak boards by the Doves Bindery set up near Morris's house in Hammersmith by T.J. Cobden-Sanderson in 1893.

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Album of 80 drawings. Study of a portly man, seated in profile to left. Burne-Jones, Edward (British, 1833-1898). Graphite on blue paper (back of an envelope), height 91 mm, width 118 mm. The album was bound in full white pigskin over oak boards by the Doves Bindery set up near Morris's house in Hammersmith by T.J. Cobden-Sanderson in 1893.

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  • Accession Number: PD.58-1998.f.22b
  • Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
  • Aperture: f/19.0
  • Focal length: 120
  • Camera: Hasselblad H4D-31
  • Photographer name: Andrew Norman
  • Image height: 803 pixels
  • Image width: 1024 pixels
  • Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.0 (Windows)
  • Filesize: 160.59kB
  • Exposure time: 1/100
  • ISO Speed: 100
  • Fnumber: 19/1
  • Captured: 2013:06:24 14:12:10

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