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Sleeping child
Draughtsman: Lamb, Henry
History note: The artist's estate; Leicester Galleries
Bought from the funds of the D.M. McQuaid bequest, 1961
Height: 309 mm
Width: 237 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 (1961) by Funds of the D.M. McQuaid bequest
Support composed of paper
Drawing : Black pencil (Conté crayon?) on paper
Accession number: PD.231-1961
Primary reference Number: 11757
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) "Sleeping child" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/11757 Accessed: 2023-01-29 07:32:50
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{{cite web|url=https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/11757
|title=Sleeping child
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2023-01-29 07:32:50|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
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https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/api/v1/objects/object-11757
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<div class="text-center"> <figure class="figure"> <img src="https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp67/PD_231_1961_CE.jpg" alt="Sleeping child" class="img-fluid" /> <figcaption class="figure-caption text-info">Sleeping child</figcaption> </figure> </div>
Accession Number: P.115-1940
Accession Number: 3939
Accession Number: O.68-1991
Accession Number: 911
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