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Gilbert Wakefield, of Jesus College
Downman, John
(Draughtsman)
History note: The artist; bequeathed to his only daughter, Mrs Isabella Cloe Benjamin; acquired by the Hon. George Neville, later Neville Granville, Dean of Windsor, c. 1825; by descent to Mrs Maitland; Lady Longmore; 2nd Series bt. from Lady Longmore in 1936 for the Museum by two anonymous Friends of the Fitzwilliam and by the N.A.C.F.
Height: 229 mm
Width: 183 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
(1936-10)
by
Anonymous
Production date: AD/CE 1778
White chalk
Black chalk
Red chalk
Support: composed of paper ( brown)
Drawing (image-making) : Black, red and white chalk, some lines incised with a stylus, on brown paper, attached to mount sheet
Accession number: 1874
Primary reference Number: 15259
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/15259 Accessed: 2022-01-19 16:54:38
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Accession Number: 1871
Accession Number: 1872
Accession Number: 1873
Accession Number: ANE.2c.1975
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