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Stage setting for Oscar Wilde's 'Salomé'
Draughtsman: Ricketts, Charles de Sousy
Height: 210 mm
Width: 396 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 (1933-06) by National Art Collections Fund
Production date: AD 1906-06-10 : N.A.C.F. label for the stage production
Watercolour
Bodycolour
Graphite
Support
composed of
paper
Medum
composed of
black chalk
Drawing : Watercolour and bodycolour with black chalk over graphite on paper, laid down
Inscription present: N.A.C.F. label for production
Accession number: 1646
Primary reference Number: 13260
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2023) "Stage setting for Oscar Wilde's 'Salomé'" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/13260 Accessed: 2023-06-05 10:57:52
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Accession Number: 1647
Accession Number: 1648
Accession Number: P.45-1953
Accession Number: 2095
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