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View of Lausanne
Draughtsman: Towne, Francis
History note: Bt. together with a watercolour by Turner, for £235 from the Cotswolds Gallery, 59 Frith Street, Soho Square, London, 1st July 1928 (no. 13 in their Exhibition)
Height: 242 mm
Width: 905 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 (1928) by The Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum
Production date: AD 1781-09-10
Support composed of paper ( 3 sheets joined together)
Watercolour
: Graphite, pen, ink and watercolour on paper
Pen and ink
Accession number: 1483
Primary reference Number: 13877
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 Lausanne" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/13877 Accessed: 2023-06-08 22:29:19
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|title=View of Lausanne
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2023-06-08 22:29:19|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
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Accession Number: P.13181-R
Accession Number: CM.QC.4645-R
Accession Number: CM.QC.4646-R
Accession Number: CM.QC.4647-R
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