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The whaler
Turner, Joseph Mallord William
(Draughtsman)
History note: Messrs. Wm. B. Paterson, from whom purchased 26 November 1907 (£20) by T.W. Bacon (bill in Museum's files)
Height: 227 mm
Width: 325 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
(1950)
by
Bacon, T.W.
Production date: AD/CE 1845
Support: composed of paper
Watercolour : Watercolour over traces of graphite on paper
Accession number: PD.116-1950
Primary reference Number: 14037
Stable URI
Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2020) "Drawing"
Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/14037 Accessed: 2021-11-27 23:22:58
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Accession Number: 4045a
Accession Number: 1183.19
Accession Number: 1183.5
Accession Number: 1183.6
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