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The Hon. Mr Molesworth
Draughtsman: Downman, John
Laid down on recto of album sheet, surrounded by drawn ink line.
History note: The artist; Mrs Isabella Chloe Benjamin, the artist's only daughter, sold, 1825; the executors of the late Sir E.F. Coates, Bart, Sale, Sotheby's, 15 February 1922; L.D. Cunliffe
Bequeathed 1937.
Height: 196 mm
Width: 158 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: Bequeathed (1938-02-15) by Cunliffe, Leonard Daneham
Production date: AD 1789
Support composed of paper ( laid down)
Drawing (image-making) : Black and red chalk, with stump on paper, laid down (chalk and/or watercolour applied to verso)
Accession number: 2314.20
Primary reference Number: 15349
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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Accession Number: P.65-1945
Accession Number: P.27-1945
Accession Number: PD.119-1973.40
Accession Number: MAR.M.262A-1912
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