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Flowers, butterflies and insects
Folios bound in soft-back covers, with silk brocade and ties
Album containing 12 watercolours on pith paper
Height: 250 mm
Width: 337 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 (1909) by Bothamley, Rev. H.
Export album made for the Western market
Support composed of paper silk
Accession number: 4172
Primary reference Number: 185538
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) "Flowers, butterflies and insects" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/185538 Accessed: 2023-06-03 01:55:12
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{{cite web|url=https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/185538
|title=Flowers, butterflies and insects
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2023-06-03 01:55:12|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
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https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/api/v1/objects/object-185538
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<div class="text-center"> <figure class="figure"> <img src="https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp66/4172_20_28front_29.jpg" alt="Flowers, butterflies and insects" class="img-fluid" /> <figcaption class="figure-caption text-info">Flowers, butterflies and insects</figcaption> </figure> </div>
Accession Number: 506
Accession Number: PD.280-1973
Accession Number: 224
Accession Number: 223
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