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View of Vesuvias from above Portici
Draughtsman: Pars, William
History note: With the Bernard Squire Gallery, 12 Baker St., London W1
Height: 432 mm
Width: 630 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: Given (1936-11) by The Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum
Black ink
Watercolour
Black chalk
Support
composed of
paper
Painted Area
Height 416 mm
Width 557 mm
Watercolour : Black chalk, watercolour, pen and black ink on paper
Accession number: 1963
Primary reference Number: 12208
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) "View of Vesuvias from above Portici" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/12208 Accessed: 2023-06-02 19:02:51
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|title=View of Vesuvias from above Portici
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2023-06-02 19:02:51|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
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Accession Number: 3670
Accession Number: PD.2-1970
Accession Number: CM.39-1920
Accession Number: PD.10-1971
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