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In Parenthesis - Starlight Order
Calligrapher: Hufton, Sue
Letters painted in gouache on to Nepalese tissue wrapped around a board and then waxed
Given by Sue Hufton
Height: 303 mm
Width: 403 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 by Hufton, Sue
Production date: AD 1999
Support
composed of
paper
( Nepalese tissue wrapped around and board and then waxed)
Decoration
Accession number: CAL 16-2007
Primary reference Number: 167356
Old object number: Calligraphy/Hufton/1
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Manuscripts and Printed Books
This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:
The Fitzwilliam Museum (2023) "In Parenthesis - Starlight Order" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/167356 Accessed: 2023-01-27 05:44:48
To cite this record on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:
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|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2023-01-27 05:44:48|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
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https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/api/v1/objects/object-167356
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Accession Number: E.64.1926
Accession Number: E.65.1926
Accession Number: CM.1284-2009
Accession Number: MS 187
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