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View of Drogheda
Draughtsman: Place, Francis
History note: By descent from the artist to Patrick Allen-Fraser; sold privately through Messrs. Agnew , 1954
Bought from Fairhaven Fund
Height: 368 mm
Width: 914 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 (1956) by Thomas Agnew and Sons Ltd
Production date: AD 1698
Support composed of paper
Drawing : Pen, sepia ink and grey wash, on two sheets of paper, joined at the centre
Accession number: PD.5-1956
Primary reference Number: 12239
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 Drogheda" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/12239 Accessed: 2023-02-05 22:12:05
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|title=View of Drogheda
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2023-02-05 22:12:05|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
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https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/api/v1/objects/object-12239
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Accession Number: PD.885-1963
Accession Number: CM.BI.2302-R
Accession Number: PD.32-1964
Accession Number: P.14047-R
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