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Queen Katherine's Dream
Draughtsman: Blake, William
History note: Painted for Thomas Butts (d. 1846); Thomas Butts, Jnr. (d. 1862); offered for sale at Sotheby's, 26 March 1852 (166), bt. by Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke (d. 1869) (for £9); Sir Charles Wentworth Dilke, 2nd Bart. (d. 1911); Dilke sale, Christie's, 10 April 1922 (127), bt. by Sydney Cockerell for the Friends of the Fitzwilliam (for 50 gns.)
Height: 399 mm
Width: 314 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 (1911) by The Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum
Production date: AD 1807
Support composed of paper
Drawing (image-making) : Pen, grey wash, traces of graphite underdrawing, touched with colour paper
Accession number: 712
Primary reference Number: 17503
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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Accession Number: 30.H.7-59
Accession Number: 1771
Accession Number: P.10984-R
Accession Number: P.98-1953
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