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Design for the Poster from Maeterlinck's 'The Blue Bird'
Design for Maeterlinck'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: 523 mm
Width: 320 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
Graphite
Black chalk
Support composed of pasteboard
Drawing : Graphite, black and blue chalk, watercolour and bodycolour on O.W pasteboard
Accession number: PD.23-2006
Primary reference Number: 133348
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2023) "Design for the Poster from Maeterlinck's 'The Blue Bird'" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/133348 Accessed: 2023-02-05 20:35:30
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