Design for a bowl
Draughtsman: Flaxman, John
Height: 100 mm
Width: 128 mm
Relative size of this object is displayed using code inspired by Good Form and Spectacle's work on the British Museum's Waddeson Bequest website and their dimension drawer. They chose a tennis ball to represent a universally sized object, from which you could envisage the size of an object.
Method of acquisition: Bought (1873-11)
Support composed of laid paper ( laid down)
Pen and ink : Pen and ink and blue-grey wash on paper, laid down
Accession number: 3595/21
Primary reference Number: 10639
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:
The Fitzwilliam Museum (2023) "Design for a bowl" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/10639 Accessed: 2023-03-31 07:21:00
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|title=Design for a bowl
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2023-03-31 07:21:00|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
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https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/api/v1/objects/object-10639
Accession Number: C.30-2017
Accession Number: C.57-1934
Accession Number: OC.54-1946
Accession Number: EC.27-1942
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