View of the Colosseum
Draughtsman: Wright, Joseph (Wright of Derby)
From the Fairhaven Fund.
Height: 483 mm
Width: 610 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 (1994) by Thomas Agnew and Sons Ltd
Grey wash
Black ink
Brown ink
Graphite
Support composed of prepared paper ( yellowish-brown)
Drawing : Graphite, pen and brown and black ink and grey wash on yellowish-brown prepared paper
Accession number: PD.220-1994
Primary reference Number: 14603
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 the Colosseum" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/14603 Accessed: 2023-06-03 19:59:02
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{{cite web|url=https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/14603
|title=View of the Colosseum
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2023-06-03 19:59:02|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
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https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/api/v1/objects/object-14603
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