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The Leave Taking
Design for Maetenrlinck's 'The Blue Bird'
History note: Theatre Royal, Haymarket; Christopher Wood
Bought from the Cunliffe Fund with contributions from the Art Fund and the MLA/V&A Purchase Grant Fund, 2006
Height: 375 mm
Width: 592 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 (2006) by The Cunliffe Fund
Watercolour
Bodycolour
Blue chalk
Black chalk
Support composed of board
Drawing : Black and blue chalk, watercolour and bodycolour on board
Accession number: PD.28-2006
Primary reference Number: 133335
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2023) "The Leave Taking" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/133335 Accessed: 2023-01-27 12:31:54
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Accession Number: AD.1.18-564
Accession Number: P.4290-R-57
Accession Number: PD.28-1961
Accession Number: P.3265-R
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