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The sun was just beginning to gild the morning sky ...
Calligrapher: Mehigan, Janet
Pastel background with letters written in gouache and added Trocol (metallic powder)
Given by Janet Mehigan
Height: 237 mm
Width: 540 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 Mehigan, Janet
Production date: AD 2008
Decoration
metallic (Trocol)
Powder
Gouache
Pastel (crayon) : Pastel background with letters written in gouache and added Trocol (metallic powder)
Accession number: CAL 33-2007
Primary reference Number: 167403
Old object number: Calligraphy/Mehigan/2
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) "The sun was just beginning to gild the morning sky ..." Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/167403 Accessed: 2023-01-30 16:15:17
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|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2023-01-30 16:15:17|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
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Accession Number: EC.4-1937
Accession Number: P.9753-R
Accession Number: OC.98-1946
Accession Number: E.GA.291.1949
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