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Cottage among trees with a sandbank
Constable, John
(Draughtsman)
Page detached from a sketchbook.
History note: Anon. sale, Sotheby's, 27 April 1966, lot 272, bt. Colnaghi (£320), from whom purchased
From the Fairhaven Fund.
Height: 122 mm
Width: 150 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
(1966)
by
P. and D. Colnaghi and Co. Ltd
Circa 1830 - 1836 1836
Support: composed of paper ( trimmed at right)
Watercolour : Watercolour with some graphite under-drawing on paper
Accession number: PD.12-1966
Primary reference Number: 14772
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Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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Accession Number: 1147b
Accession Number: PD.556-1963
Accession Number: PD.372-1963
Accession Number: PD.68-1978
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