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Study of Boscastle Harbour
History note: Bought at Sotheby's, 1959 (£45)
Bequeathed by Dr W.M. Keynes, 2009, received 2010
Height: 136 mm
Width: 192 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 (2010) by Keynes, W. M., Dr.
19th century
Production date:
AD 1848
Support
composed of
paper
Meduim
composed of
white highlights
black chalk
Drawing : Black chalk heightened with white on paper
Accession number: PD.29-2010
Primary reference Number: 179657
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:
The Fitzwilliam Museum (2023) "Study of Boscastle Harbour" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/179657 Accessed: 2023-02-06 14:23:32
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|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2023-02-06 14:23:32|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
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Accession Number: P.974-R
Accession Number: PD.6-1976
Accession Number: GR.P.41
Accession Number: PD.132-1963
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