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Alphabet
Calligrapher: Pickett, Jan
Gouache, watercolour, brush and flexible nibs on paper
Given by Jan Pickett
Height: 370 mm
Width: 190 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 Picket, Jan
Production date: AD 2007
Support
composed of
paper
Decoration
Accession number: CAL 39-2007
Primary reference Number: 167394
Old object number: Calligraphy/Pickett/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) "Alphabet" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/167394 Accessed: 2023-02-01 23:22:14
To cite this record on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:
{{cite web|url=https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/167394
|title=Alphabet
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2023-02-01 23:22:14|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
To call these data via our API (remember this needs to be authenticated) you can use this code snippet:
https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/api/v1/objects/object-167394
To use this as a simple code embed, copy this string:
<div class="text-center">
<figure class="figure">
<img src="https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/msspb/msspb5/CAL_39_2007.jpg"
alt="Alphabet"
class="img-fluid" />
<figcaption class="figure-caption text-info">Alphabet</figcaption>
</figure>
</div>
Accession Number: PB 1-1914
Accession Number: EC.16-1939
Accession Number: T.105-1928
Accession Number: T.1-2009
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