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A view in the Lake District "from near Braithwaites"
Draughtsman: Smith, John Irthington (Warwick Smith)
History note: Curwen, Belle Isle, Westmoreland; Agnew (1969)
From the Fairhaven Fund.
Height: 344 mm
Width: 508 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 (1970) by Thomas Agnew and Sons Ltd
Production date: AD 1791
Support composed of paper ( laid down)
Watercolour : Graphite and watercolour on paper (laid down on a sheet of Whatman paper, with ink and wash margins drawn in)
Accession number: PD.2-1970
Primary reference Number: 13628
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2023) "A view in the Lake District "from near Braithwaites"" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/13628 Accessed: 2023-05-31 04:07:04
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Accession Number: PD.135-1950
Accession Number: 3310
Accession Number: 2721
Accession Number: M.50
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