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Prelude No. 2
Draughtsman: Hepworth, Barbara
From the Biffen Fund.
Height: 391 mm
Width: 497 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 (1970) by Peterhouse
Support composed of panel (wood)
Drawing : Graphite, oil and wash on gesso on panel
Accession number: PD.23-1970
Primary reference Number: 10844
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) "Prelude No. 2" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/10844 Accessed: 2023-01-27 02:29:42
To cite this record on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:
{{cite web|url=https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/10844
|title=Prelude No. 2
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2023-01-27 02:29:42|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
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https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/api/v1/objects/object-10844
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